Re: Dillon / Keystone Operations Revisited

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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But there was a Wye at Keystone.

Yes, indeed, there was, Chris.

Early South Park timetables show a daily mixed train from Keystone to Breckenridge and return, connecting with the Denver - Leadville passenger trains.

The earliest C&S employee's timetable that I've seen, showing facilities at each station is from June, 1906. Unfortunately, the Keystone branch was omitted.

I spent quite a few summer vacations with my kids at the Keystone Resort back in the early 1980s. The old depot was used as a tack barn for the stables at that time. The old C&S grade down to the crossing of the Snake River was a bridle trail.  The horses hooves would sometimes turn up C&S artifacts along the grade. One summer my son found a rusted journal lid from a freight car truck -- wish we had brought it home as a keepsake!

The Keystone History Center, an educational arm of the resort, put together information on the surviving buildings at the site of the rail "yard", if you can refer to two tracks as such. The locals say that there was a wye at the depot or just east of the depot in "Jackstraw Flats".