Re: Parking in Central City and Blackhawk

Rick Steele Wrote:
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> Actually, as a place to park the locomotive, I
> would opt to uncover the depot from its EPA tomb
> and to display Locomotive, Combine and the Leased
> Gondola on the town side of the Depot and use the
> Depot as an Museum and Town Information Center.
> Much of the track in the yard should still be
> there as the yard was not scrapped by the C&S
> because the City had already regraded Spring
> Street and it had covered the road crossing,
> preventing access. I have also seen some rail that
> tumbled down the side of the tailings pile.


> As a bit of an aside, I am also glad to see that
> the building has been painted. The bricks used to
> build these buildings was called "Hooper Brick".
> Hooper Brick was locally produced and not High
> fired. This brick, after all the years that it has
> stood there (1878 on) has been turning back into
> sand. The paint helps protect this brick from the
> elements.


I wonder about tying these two things together. With the station buried in tailings, would it be plausible that chemical reactions to the tailings and the bricks would make it a fools errand to use the original structure?