Re: Como, 1935

The three remaining wood stalls of the roundhouse burned in March of 1935. These were the stalls that the C&S was ractually using at that point and the stone section was mostly used for the foreman's office and machine tool space. The fire changed that and the stone section once again needed to be used to house locomotives. A standard gauge caboose body was brought up to be the foreman's office and the stalls in the stone roundhouse were fixed up to house and service locomotives. It is ironic that the right hand of the C&S spent a bunch of time and money refurbishing the Como roundhouse while the left hand was preparing to abandon the line. (of course it could be argued that the cost of the roundhouse work was used to pad the amount of money that the C&S was "losing" on the South Park line in order to help the Abandonment filing. This was and still is a common practice in an abandonment)


Jason Midyette