Re: Desperately Seeking Signals: The Saga Of The Train Order Board

Posted by ComoDepot on Oct 30, 2016; 12:10pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Desperately-Seeking-Signals-The-Saga-Of-The-Train-Order-Board-tp6678p6688.html

Thanks for looking it up.

I know I have said this before but in the last 8 years both Bob and myself have been interviewed by the Flume and I am pretty sure that neither of us despite our best efforts have been reported accurately.

If they get it 75% or more then I take it as a win.

How different was it back then?

These articles raise many questions, there is another one from June covering the arrival of the first train in Como.

Just some comments:

The Town was owned by the railroad, did they rent space, lease properties initially.

Gilman is mentioned with a Eating House, I assume a tented structure, on the Hotel site or somewhere else.

Depot is mentioned a few times and the staff. As I mentioned earlier we can not tell what building it is or for that matter if it is where the current Depot is, but then again why go to the effort of replacing it or moving it.

I know there were two coal mines from other sources, it is not clear from this report but can certainly be read that way. Seems that it remained at about 20 coal miners until they year end when they hit a fault and abandoned the operations.