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

Posted by Jim Courtney on Jul 21, 2017; 10:57pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Yet-Another-DPL-Gem-Unseen-Clear-Creek-tp2400p8857.html

Another photo, new to me, for sale on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Later-print-of-1920s-Photograph-COLORADO-SOUTHERN-Railroad-SILVER-PLUME/222588390140?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649




The photo shows a 7 car passenger excursion train, spotted on the tail of the Silver Plume wye, laying over for lunch. Motive power is not visible.

The back of the photo is just as interesting as the front (see eBay listing):  A stamp shows the image to be a reproduction from the Denver Public Library collection. Has anyone seen this photo on the DPL online collection??

There is an inscription dating the photo to 1930 at the lower left corner.

In a darker inscription (that looks a lot like the notes that John Maxwell would write on the back of the photos that I purchased from him in the 1970s), the passenger cars in the consist are listed.  From right to left:
Combine 29 by the clock tower
Coach 59
Coach 62
Coach 78
Coach 79
Coach 82
Either coach 80 or 83 at the end.

What about it, Ken Martin, do you agree?

The inscription notes that most of the passenger cars were scrapped in 1929, and dates the photo to "early 1920s". None of the newer coaches 70-76, used in regular passenger service, are in the consist.

The clock tower is still standing but the roof seems in need of repair.

Can anyone identify the two vehicles on the flat by the end of the wye tail track? Perhaps that might help date the photo.

Don't know where all of the passengers are, perhaps inside the Pavilion, dining on ugly stuffed chicken . . .