Re: C&S Locomotives

I suspect that they were stored there because they did not know what would happen in regards to the track conditions between April, 1937 and June, 1938 when the scrapping actually began. There is information that the C&S converted an automobile to inspect the line from Breckenridge to Como on a regular basis, but still anything could have happened during the winter of 1937-38, that might have cut the line somewhere and Dickey was the obvious place to keep some engines in case of a problem. The winter and spring weather did cause a real problem for instance when it came time to pull up the RGS in 1952-53 and the line was cut in numerous places with washouts.