November 17, 2015 08:05PM
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Perhaps the structure you thought was a freight house is actually the old paint shop which dates from 1881, suffered a fire in 1899 and was rebuilt with a more subdued roof angle. The west side of this structure was once the freight car shop, later becoming part of the passenger car shop. The surviving masonry of the Durango roundhouse might be just as old as the Burnham paint shop. As many of us know the locomotive shop that is still in use at this time is the shop that built the K-37s and was constructed circa 1923. Going over west on the 8th Ave. viaduct I love to look at the ancient metal sign that proclaims "Locomotive Shop". Although narrow gauge operations south of Denver ended in 1903, the Burnham shops maintained narrow gauge equipment as late as 1979. I hope some how the Locomotive Shop (1923), Diesel Shop(1964), Locker Room/ Water Treatment Plant(1906), Freight Car Shop/ Paint Shop, later Passenger Car Shop(1881, 1890,1899), Steel Freight Car Shop(1920s) and not to mention the recently rebuilt 1940 130" turntable for the roundhouse demolished in 1963/64 and the only transfer table in Colorado.
I hope that valuable real estate is not demolished to create more particle board stupid box apartments like which are expanding all around the ex D&RG?/ now RTD along their ROW in the housing boom in Denver.
Bird's eye view from 1882
Sandborn map from 1890.
What a beautiful machine shop.
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