Re: GSL&P Extension beyond Sunset

weston1879 Wrote:
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> I seem to remember that GSL&P attempted an
> extension beyond Sunset.A few of the Sunset photos
> show 2 trestles behind the station that were part
> of that line.

There was a trestle beyond the depot on the GSL&P on the line that was headed in the direction of Eldora. I haven't seen any indication that the track made it very far beyond that trestle. The two trestles by the depot were on the two legs of the wye on the C&N, which had an additional trestle in the same (or approximately same) location as the GSL&P, and another small trestle on the Ward line behind the schoolhouse in Sunset. This C&N era photo shows the wye trestles in the foreground and the Eldora trestle in the background:


I've sketched the approximate alignment of both the GSL&P/UPD&G (dashed) and C&N/DB&W (solid) on a Google aerial photo (the green rectangle is the depot):

The GSL&P past the C&N depot site is probably a bit farther south. An excavation just north of the road for a new septic tank revealed both GSL&P track and C&N ties. IIRC, the GSL&P track was closer to the modern road. This was in 2007, and I sketched this map much earlier.

Here's proof that the GSL&P graded beyond Sunset. The mount from this stereo view has Jackson's Larimer Street address, which date the print to 1880 to 1886, and the caption reads "G.S.L.& P.R.R.NORTH SIDE BALD MTN." Bald Mountain is to the south of Sunset, and the C&N Eldora branch eventually followed this same route.




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/2012 08:35PM by Todd Hackett.