Re: C&S Scrapping

According to Gordon Chappell's authoritative book, "Logging Along the Denver & Rio Grande" (CRM 1971), Hallack & Howard was one of the largest and oldest Denver lumber firms, operating retail lumber yards throughout western Nebraska, Kansas and eastern Colorado in the 1880's and 1890's. In 1906, H&H acquired control of Montezuma Lumber Company, which operated logging lines in the Glencoe, area between Delores and Mancos on the RGS. The network totalled at least 25 miles and included two switchbacks. An on-line coal mine above Glencoe provided locomotive fuel for H&H's ex-DRGW 2-8-0 #56. The company also leased RGS and DRGW power when needed. Around 1914, when timber on the mesa above Lost Canyon Creek was depleted, Hallack & Howard shut down operations at Glencoe. The #56 (renumbered #1) and 18 logging cars were moved to La Madera, New Mexico and the original Montezuma Lumber Company was dissolved. (The name was to resurface in a 1935 logging operation at McPhee that had no direct corporate connection with H&H.)
Hallack & Howard's had cutting rights to 117 million board feet of timber in the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. To serve the H&H company milltown of La Madera, the DRGW built a 16-mile spur from its "Chili Line" at Taos Jct. H&H itself laid down approximately 30 miles of track to the woods -- the total mileage fluctuated from year to year. In addition to the DRGW 2-8-0 from Glencoe, H&H purchased several small 2-8-0's from the C&S. The C&S engines were #39, #45, #46, #48 and #54. Two new 2-T Climaxes were added to the roster and were used in the woods to switch the steam-powered log loaders.
In 1926, marketable timber in the La Madera area was exhausted. Hallack & Howard shut down its mill and box factory and moved its operations to new holdings near Cascade, Idaho. The Climaxes apparently went on to Idaho, but the worn-out ex-C&S and DRGW power was scrapped in 1927 by the company that scrapped out the mill equipment.
Some of the logging cars went back to McPhee, for use on the New Mexico Lumber Co's RGS feeder line, the Colorado & Southwestern RR. Ex-H&H 26-ton Climax No. 6 eventually ended up on the Sumpter Valley Railroad where it was renumbered #8. This locomotive lasted in the ownership of Oregon Lumber Company until 1947 when it was scrapped.
The DRGW branch from Taos Jct. to La Madera struggled on until 1932 when it was abandoned. And of course, we all know the fate of the Chili Line itself.
By the way, the Colorado Railroad Museum collection has photos of some of the C&S power in service at La Madera in the 1920's.
Thanks again to the CRM and Gordon Chappell for the exhaustive research that makes an answer to your question possible.