Re: Como depot formerly D&RG station

John Droste2 Wrote:
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> Chris,
> just considering your post a little more, I need
> to study up on the TOB`s.
> Your PRIMARY EVIDENTIAL photos show no TOB outside
> the Como depot EXCEPT for the earliest photo that
> you posted, 1885. The first in your chain of
> photos, is from the DLG days.
> Are you trying to win debate by deception?
>
> I will read on the TOB`s to see if they been
> invented prior to 1881 and we can go from there.
>
> John

I will be bold as to say this picture is the one you "see" a TO board in it as per your post.
DPL CHS-B255

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Please look again, you think you see the white banner for "Clear" indication, but look away and back again, that isn't a Banner but the longitudinal "Como" Station Sign just below the roof. You can cross reference that location with every other picture of the Depot. I have yet to see a picture of the Como Depot with the TO Board mounted in any other place than where it is in this colour picture. The darker portion between the rear of the loco tender and the sign is the corner of the Hotel Verandah.

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I'm most certainly glad you're not in a cab of an opposing train to mine lest you mistake the Signal in front of you.

As for the Invention of the TO Signal. Bear in mind that the invention has to be "sold" to the customer, it may take some years before they buy it wholesale.
This is born out by these pictures taken at Cimarron on the D&RG, not yet installed!
1886 [digital.denverlibrary.org]
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W.C. Nunn's Patent Railway Telegraph Train Order Signal was 1875. The neotype Swift Train order Signal Patent of 1878 [www.google.com]

Train Order Signal use of dates 1884 onward, prior to this, the simple Flag and Lamp was used to signal trains by hand.
see: Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 4 pg179
[books.google.co.nz]

And as for "Are you trying to win debate by deception?" well it was you, who posted in your Blog Post: The sections of wall. Part one. [wordpress697.wordpress.com]
and I quote "I could have included this map below that I found in the Norlin Library of Boulder when I discussed the D&RG depot. It still shows the siding that crossed Wynkoop Street to stop in front of the D&RG station. It is long enough to have had more than one building along the siding but there are not any building sites marked in along the siding anymore."

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Here is my Post [ngdiscussion.net] if anyone likes to click on the Sanborn map, the NGDF attachment file # is the same 32126 that you linked back to.

Howzat!