Re: Unseen Clear Creek Passenger Service -- Part 3: "Layover for Lunch at the Wye"

Posted by Jim Courtney on Aug 02, 2016; 4:05am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Yet-Another-DPL-Gem-Unseen-Clear-Creek-tp2400p5747.html

I never really studied these McClure photos, c1905-1910, likely because there isn't a C&S train in them:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/3657/rec/60



http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/77566/rec/31



http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/77490/rv/singleitem/rec/8



Passengers disembark from the "up" train from Denver and head to the Pavilion grounds, after the train is backed onto the tail of the wye. Those passengers not riding the Argentine Central up to Mt. McClelland or the Sunrise Peak tram ride, wile away the layover at the Silver Plume wye, under the fir trees of the picnic grounds, awaiting train time to return to Denver.

People certainly dressed up to take a train ride into the mountains!