Re: Proof that not only the Eating House was built on stilts at Forks Creek.
Posted by Derrell Poole on
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In Oct. 1902, a 110-foot spur for handling fuel oil was constructed inside the Forks Creek wye near the water tank. From what I can tell it was located along here:
This was in anticipation of the 1903 season of Oil Fired Moguls. Two flat ng cars, 1055 and 1066, were converted to tank cars and used as fueling stations for the moguls. (And 12 SG cars were purchased to transport oil from Texas - 950 -951).This spur was to facilitate those cars on the CC line and it is thought they would have expanded the service to Platte Canyon as well.
The 1903 season never happened (well it sorta happened in 2006). The price of oil skyrocketed and the economy of oil was gone. So when the summer of 1903 came the oil jets were never put back into the fireboxes (they had been removed for the winter months of 1902/03).
This is based on the C&S files at the CRRM and Hol Wagner's research (and perhaps a little dot connecting on my part).
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In Oct. 1902, a 110-foot spur for handling fuel oil was constructed inside the Forks Creek wye near the water tank. From what I can tell it was located along here:
This was in anticipation of the 1903 season of Oil Fired Moguls. Two flat ng cars, 1055 and 1066, were converted to tank cars and used as fueling stations for the moguls. (And 12 SG cars were purchased to transport oil from Texas - 950 -951).This spur was to facilitate those cars on the CC line and it is thought they would have expanded the service to Platte Canyon as well.
The 1903 season never happened (well it sorta happened in 2006). The price of oil skyrocketed and the economy of oil was gone. So when the summer of 1903 came the oil jets were never put back into the fireboxes (they had been removed for the winter months of 1902/03).
This is based on the C&S files at the CRRM and Hol Wagner's research (and perhaps a little dot connecting on my part).
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