Saturday, December 6, 2014

Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.26 | 10 Comments - Click Here :

Denver Public Library
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  1. Oh, Look....

    A train without an engine!

    Well , you can't seeeee it...! So it must not be there....

    Ol' Harry B. was a wonderful photographer. We can't appreciate him enough. The DPL is a great source of his photos - search the Buckwalter Collection and just see what pops up. Here is another source in case you get bored with that one;

    http://www.museumsyndicate.com/

    On the right click on Photographer and name your poison (oh, be careful - you can kill a day with this one!)

    And just to demonstrate I can me mesmerized by extraneous details (I have a track fetish) those Ties must be nigh on 9 feet long!

    Is that a pin puller I see on the platform (to the right)?

    Derrell

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  2. Near Solitude? (Now Copper Mountain)

    Keith Hayes
    Leadville in Sn3

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    1. DPL has it labeled as "Devils Slide, Chalk Creek Canyon". But I think you are correct in that we are looking at the Ten Mile. Isn't that where Devils Slide was?

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    2. I think it is Chalk Creek just like the DPL caption says. The date is May 1895, which is pretty specific. Bucky was pretty reliable about these things. This would be a westbound train and that would be Mt. Princeton on the right - which means this is late morning....

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    3. Thanks for clarifying Brother d.

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  3. Isn't this car equipped with a Miller Hook?

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  4. It is Miller Hook when the buffers compress pushing the lever separates hook

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  5. Just taking a stab in the dark, but I think this right around where the Cascade campground is today. East of this, the tracks are on the hillside and the track departs the river just west of here near Alpine. What a great picture. Don't know where DPL keeps coming up with these. Never seen this one.

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  6. Certainly Chalk Creek Canyon, confirmed by the Fisher railjoints visible which the Boreas Pass/Tenmile/Fremont Pass line didn't have.

    Nobody noticed that the Markers are at the other end of the consist.
    There is a Loco attached at the other end evidenced by the cab Handrail visible below the marker which leads me to wonder is this a Fishermans special perhaps? The Guy with the Bowler Hat seems to be holding a fishingline with hooks on extreme enlargement.

    From memory this is the first picture I've seen with the Miller hook and spare pin in its own hole on the back of a passenger car. Anybodyelse direct me to another picture showing the same coupler?

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    1. Of course there's an engine. My comment was connected to an earlier discussion about an engine without a tender since you couldn't "SEEeee" the tender in the photo. Derrell is, after all, sarcastic.... drunk or otherwise...

      Derrell

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