Re: C&S Narrow Gauge in Color: Forks Creek

Posted by Jim Courtney on May 10, 2016; 12:44am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Narrow-Gauge-in-Color-tp5158p5188.html

Back in February of 2015 there was a fantastic thread here on Forks Creek: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Proof-that-not-only-the-Eating-House-was-built-on-stilts-at-Forks-Creek-td948i20.html

Doug Heitkamp posted a number of color views of Forks c1941. I've taken the liberty of resizing them and reposting them here.

First, two overview images--the eating house is long gone and highway construction is underway:







C&S number 70 has arrived from Denver with a short train for Idaho Springs.  It has left its train on the siding just west of the wye, and has backed around the first two legs of the wye, taking water at the tank, the engine now facing east.




The tender full, number 70 pulls east to clear the wye switch, then backs across the iron bridge over Clear Creek, westbound but tender first.







The 70 reassembles its short train and will run westbound, tender first to Idaho Springs:




Departing Forks, number 70 and its 5 car train climb through the curving confines of Clear Creek Canon, somewhere to the west--the Floyd Hill area perhaps?


Photo posted by Doug Heitkamp: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Caboose-roof-color-td61.html