Stewart Rhine Wrote:
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> Brett B Wrote:
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> > What structures were located at the Alpine
> Tunnel Ghost town. Besides the engine house, were
> there
> > permanent residents that lived there, or
> railroad employees critical to the operation
> stationed
> > there. If railroad employees was that a
> permanent position or were they rotated in and out
> so as to
> > not go crazy from the isolation?
>
>
> Brett,
> There was a boarding house that sat across the
> tracks from the engine house. It was on the same
> side of the mainline as the train order office and
> there was a wooden sidewalk that connected the
> two. I think I have a picture of it somewhere,
> just have to find it.
>
> Stewart

IIRC the 2-story frame boarding house was a late addition, in the C&S era? ISTR that there were stone tenements erected in 1881 to the (RR) east of the engine House.

Hank