Re: Leadville stations

John:
The Ibex depot was a freight office only. The people of Leadville asked the D&RG for passenger service on that branch a number of times, but it never happened. I just read an article in a 1917 Leadville paper that contained a complaint about the lack of passenger service. I understand that it was fairly easy for someone to grab a ride on a caboose, but with the number of mines on that branch, it would not have been much help. The mines wanted passenger service as during bad storms, their miners sometimes could not get back and forth to Leadville on the bad roads. Some of the mines resorted to using sleighs and wagons to haul the miners. A few of them had bunk houses where the single miners actually lived.
Jerry