Re: Desperately Seeking Signals: Train Order Boards and "Open Depots"

Posted by Chris Walker on Nov 01, 2016; 10:09am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Desperately-Seeking-Signals-The-Saga-Of-The-Train-Order-Board-tp6678p6711.html

Silver Plume did indeed have a Banner Order Board, see pg 391 & 393 of Colorado Central by Abbott, McCoy and McLeod.  Thanks for continuing this essay, your reward is at the bottom of this post.  I think it is amazing just how much detail can be wrung out of the pictures.

Other Clear Creek boards in later times that are not visible in the very earliest pictures are following (with the exception of Forks Creek).
 
Beaver Brook
Z-5975

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/72020/rv/singleitem/rec/10

Idaho Springs (to the Bitter end)
OP-6385

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/43685/rv/singleitem/rec/2

Empire
X-8209

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/5484/rv/singleitem/rec/2

Georgetown
X-1284

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/2204/rv/singleitem/rec/4

And one for Jim
Dillon

Summit County Historical Society