Chris Walker Wrote:
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> A good effort so far but in the interests of not
> continuing any discrepencies or misleading those
> on the internet who know no better, I'd suggest
> you buy or interloan from a Library the single
> most relevant source available, Tracking Ghost
> Rails in Colorado by Robert Orme. DSP&P by Mac
> Poor and Le Massena's Rio Grande to the Pacific
> are also worth looking at.
>
> Just scanning your map quickly without any
> references, I note missing are the following.
>
> Colorado Central/C&S Silver Plume to Graymont,
> Forks Creek to Central City... and the Gilpin
> Tramway. Also the South Clear Creek line is shown
> going through the Highway Tunnel west of Forks
> which it didn't.
>
> The Morrison Branch, Silica Branch, Nighthawk
> Branch, Leavick Branch, King Coal Branch, Keystone
> Branch, Kubler mine Branch of the DSP&P/C&S. Your
> rendition has the DSP&P leaving Nathrop on a
> roadway not up the Chalk Creek to the Hot Springs
> and no approach across the Arkansas River into
> Nathrop. Others have mentioned the Buena Vista,
> Schwanders, Nathrop omissions.
>
> The D&RG(W) Blue River Branch, Ibex Branch,
> Calumet Branch, Aberdeen Branch, Anthracite
> Branch, Grape Creek Branch, line changes between
> Buena Vista and Leadville, the n.g. line over
> Tennessee Pass, n.g. line over La Veta Pass, n.g.
> allignment West of Mack, n.g. allignment on
> Soldier Summit, Grassy Utah n.g. allignment,
> Sunnyside Branch Utah, Heber Branch Utah, Alta
> Branch Utah, Park City Branch, Kenilworth and
> Rains Branches, Scofield and Clear Creek Branch,
> Dividend Branch, Tintic Branch to Eureka Utah.
> Enterprise Branch(RGS).
>
> Also omitted are the Leadville Mineral Belt
> Railway, London, South Park and Leadville RR, and
> Bald Mountain RR. In Utah, Little Book Cliff RR,
> Ballard and Thompson RR, Carbon County Railway,
> Kenilworth and Helper, and the Utah Railway.
In other words, Jonathan, you can now see why no one else has attempted a fully comprehensive map as you are doing. It's a daunting task. However, if you stick with it, get some good material to study, and ask lots of questions here on the NGDF, you may be the first to accomplish the task.
Please let me encourage you to keep going. It's a worthy project.
Good luck, man.
Jason Rose
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