Re: Leadville building

John:

After posting a reply to this message I got to thinking more about it and thus did some pearl diving in my files. There are no smoke jacks on that building so it could not be an engine house. That photo which showed an engine in front of the doors may have been the yard switcher delivering a car or cars to the shops.

I have copies of the D&RGW Valuation Maps for Leadville and the surrounding branches, courtesy of the CRRM some years ago.

Valuation Map no.V7C/S2-b, dated 6/30/1919 and signed by Arthur Ridgway, clearly shows the tracks of the D&RGW and the C&S. The C&S wye on which you photographed the 641 wasn't built until later, probably when the C&S was standard gauged by 1943. The map does show the C&S roundhouse in detail and I know from personal experience just where the "new" C&S wye was.

Clearly shown on the valuation map is the double tracked Car Repair Shop for the D&RGW, exactly where the building in your photo is located. A few tracks behind it was the Freight Depot.

So I stand by my original assessment of the structure being a car repair shop.

With best regards, Hart


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