Re: Photos of C&S 6, 9 and 40 at derailment in snow, c1912

Posted by South Park on
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  The telegraph line is key, but I find it confusing for the 3rd wire.  The main from
Denver to BV was 4 wires from 1884-on, even more after the WU rebuild of 1919.

  The Boreas line to Leadville was two wires, as was the BV-to-Gunnison line (the
latter would have been closed beyond Hancock by this time.

  But the 3rd wire baffles me.  Two of the insulators are standard-issue original construction
CD 133.4 Hemingray No.3 "bullets", and the 3rd is a CD 126.4 WU unit, also common
as replacement glass on the South Park lines after the UP takeover.

  Is it possible this is on the Clear Creek side of operations ???  I do not recognize
the buildings either.  Another thing that makes me think it is not on the line to Leadville/
Gunnison.