Re: Como Roundhouse Addition

Posted by Chris Walker on Aug 18, 2017; 1:38am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Como-Roundhouse-Addition-tp9120p9141.html

If you examine the Wooden first and second extensions pictures and compare with the CRRA #12 TT picture notice that the Stalls have been re-orientated for Loco's to "back in", opposite from the earlier "face in".  Also examine my posted enlargement of the DPL Como panorama again, and compare the front wall on the odd shaped final wooden extension.  Notice the height of the front of the wall and compare same with the Stone facade, seems to be same height as in the corresponding views of the 1st/2nd extensions.
EDIT: #112 should have read CRRA #12(having the book open with the picture of #112 didn't help) cross reference with the picture showing #211 on the TT with nosed-in Loco's.

Also Jim, Klinger's South Park's Gunnison Division Memories...1920 dated picture of the #67 conflicts with the date given in Goin' Railroading pg143 which gives the Romley TT incident as 21st Feb 1918, the loco not recovered until Spring of 1918.

On pg90 Digerness in Mineral Belt V-II states that "the engine shops were destroyed in 1909 and were never rebuilt."
I guess that is erroneous and misleading and may have referred to the demise of the Blacksmith Shop/Boilerhouse, date unknown to me since the 1910 Como Pano in the http://www.narrowgauge.org/ngc/graphics/excursion4/gkazel/dspp-gk-007.jpg still shows the building standing.

The Dickey Enginehouse had doubled Sash 4x3 Lights, the original Como Wooden extension show doubled Sash 4x2 Lights.

This is fascinating, what Folly in pulling down the older extensions and putting something else back up in the same place within 10 years.
 
Which is why I think the 1935 burned structure is just a reduction in Stalls and Rotary extended rework of what remained from the downsizing sometime in the twenties.