Re: Map of Colorado's Railroads . . . 
| August 25, 2016 08:16PM |
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Jason Rose Wrote:
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> Wow! Nicely done, sir.
>
> . . . {but} The CM / DSP&P crossing near Bath
> (east of Buena Vista) isn't right. I'm pretty sure
> those lines didn't join west of the crossing. CM
> had it's own route to BV. *
> :
> :
> But overall, this is great. Thanks for the effort
> and for sharing. I'll definitely be looking more
> when I have time.
Right, Jason -
* The Colorado Midland was standard gauge and the earlier Denver, South Park & Pacific was narrow gauge, so not much incentive to join or even interchange out in the boonies at the top of Trout Creek Pass. The CM stayed well up on the hillside east of Beeyuna Vista, as it was headed for Leadville (and points west) - not Gunnison - so there was no need to drop into the valley only to climb back out along the upper Arkansas. E. J. Haley's map of the CM shows a station well east of the town, but no branch. Some of the old CM r.o.w. on the hill east of BV was driveable a few years ago; most of the DSP&P along Trout Creek has long since succumbed to floods.
SFAIK, no photos exist of a train on either railroad at the summit of Trout Creek Pass. Here's a portion of Howard Fogg's 1965 painting for Morris Cafky's book 'COLORADO MIDLAND' that depicts a "meet" at the summit in the Autumn of 1890, not too long after the CM was completed:
Traces of the fills and abutments for the overpass shown above were still visible a few yards from U.S. 285 (roughly parallel to the DSP&P at maybe a car-length behind the CM train) when I stopped by there about a dozen years ago with my daughter Cindy ('Jackelopette' here on the Forum). Prints of the above painting were at one time available from the Rocky Mountain RR Club, publishers of Cafky's book.
- Roosso
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2020 08:00PM by Russo Loco.
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> Wow! Nicely done, sir.
>
> . . . {but} The CM / DSP&P crossing near Bath
> (east of Buena Vista) isn't right. I'm pretty sure
> those lines didn't join west of the crossing. CM
> had it's own route to BV. *
> :
> :
> But overall, this is great. Thanks for the effort
> and for sharing. I'll definitely be looking more
> when I have time.
Right, Jason -
* The Colorado Midland was standard gauge and the earlier Denver, South Park & Pacific was narrow gauge, so not much incentive to join or even interchange out in the boonies at the top of Trout Creek Pass. The CM stayed well up on the hillside east of Beeyuna Vista, as it was headed for Leadville (and points west) - not Gunnison - so there was no need to drop into the valley only to climb back out along the upper Arkansas. E. J. Haley's map of the CM shows a station well east of the town, but no branch. Some of the old CM r.o.w. on the hill east of BV was driveable a few years ago; most of the DSP&P along Trout Creek has long since succumbed to floods.
SFAIK, no photos exist of a train on either railroad at the summit of Trout Creek Pass. Here's a portion of Howard Fogg's 1965 painting for Morris Cafky's book 'COLORADO MIDLAND' that depicts a "meet" at the summit in the Autumn of 1890, not too long after the CM was completed:
Traces of the fills and abutments for the overpass shown above were still visible a few yards from U.S. 285 (roughly parallel to the DSP&P at maybe a car-length behind the CM train) when I stopped by there about a dozen years ago with my daughter Cindy ('Jackelopette' here on the Forum). Prints of the above painting were at one time available from the Rocky Mountain RR Club, publishers of Cafky's book.
- Roosso
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2020 08:00PM by Russo Loco.
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