Como - Getting Ready For Boreas Pass RR Day
| August 16, 2019 08:34AM |
Boreas Pass Railroad Day is tomorrow here is scenic Como, Colorado;
Klondike Mines 4 has been nosed out of the roundhouse in preparation for the addition of fire and water later today
D&RGW 768 got a fresh coat of paint yesterday. Should the paint ever choose to dry it will get some lettering
The DSP&PHS placed a replica of the Red Hill station sign (Red Hill was the next station past Como on the line to Gunnison) along the "Gunnison Main" yesterday afternoon.
Volunteers at work building a boarding platform for the handcar on the ashpit track. The handcar will operate on the track tomorrow.
Jason Midyette
Klondike Mines 4 has been nosed out of the roundhouse in preparation for the addition of fire and water later today
D&RGW 768 got a fresh coat of paint yesterday. Should the paint ever choose to dry it will get some lettering
The DSP&PHS placed a replica of the Red Hill station sign (Red Hill was the next station past Como on the line to Gunnison) along the "Gunnison Main" yesterday afternoon.
Volunteers at work building a boarding platform for the handcar on the ashpit track. The handcar will operate on the track tomorrow.
Jason Midyette
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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