This must be very near the end of operations in the Canyon. The lead truck is in plain sight as is the cinder pipe above it and the cylinder behind it.
Number 69 is my favorite engine. That steam dome is one of those conundrums - I believe it was a replacement after the original was destroyed in a wreck near the East portal in 1910. But no proof. It could have been any wreck we don't know about along about that time - even the C. City Wreck in November 1913. I've thought perhaps if we had records of the retirement of SG engines at that time we might find this dome came from an old broad gauge engine - much like the smooth domes on 58 many years later. Harry Brunk proposed to me at one time that the big tender tanks on the 2-8-0s may have come from old sg locos retired at the TOC. I've embraced that idea but again no proof.
BTW if you like this posting click the Like button! Takes a 10th of a second fer cryin' out loud! You do it all the time on your Flak-Book page - shouldn't be a foreign concept...
In the early 40's, Otto Perry and Woodrow Gorman shot color movies of the end of the Clear Creek line. I will guess that either of them may have taken the shot. There were quite a few rail fans watching the action then, so it could have been somebody else. If you don't have the DVD Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge by Machines of Iron, you are missing out. For the most part, it's in color!
Roper has out done himself. Randy
ReplyDeleteWhere's the lead truck?Who took the photo and when?
ReplyDeleteThis must be very near the end of operations in the Canyon. The lead truck is in plain sight as is the cinder pipe above it and the cylinder behind it.
ReplyDeleteNumber 69 is my favorite engine. That steam dome is one of those conundrums - I believe it was a replacement after the original was destroyed in a wreck near the East portal in 1910. But no proof. It could have been any wreck we don't know about along about that time - even the C. City Wreck in November 1913. I've thought perhaps if we had records of the retirement of SG engines at that time we might find this dome came from an old broad gauge engine - much like the smooth domes on 58 many years later. Harry Brunk proposed to me at one time that the big tender tanks on the 2-8-0s may have come from old sg locos retired at the TOC. I've embraced that idea but again no proof.
BTW if you like this posting click the Like button! Takes a 10th of a second fer cryin' out loud! You do it all the time on your Flak-Book page - shouldn't be a foreign concept...
I like it a lot, so who was shooting colour back then ?
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Didn't somebody have a kit for that machine shop in the background several years back?
ReplyDeleteSo nice to see a color picture of C&S operations!
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I seem to remember a few in Mineral Belt#2
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ReplyDeleteRocky Mtn Model Works made an S scale kit of the Blackhawk Boiler Works around 20 years ago. It was a similar shaped building.
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Chris,
ReplyDeleteIn the early 40's, Otto Perry and Woodrow Gorman shot color movies of the end of the Clear Creek line. I will guess that either of them may have taken the shot. There were quite a few rail fans watching the action then, so it could have been somebody else. If you don't have the DVD Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge by Machines of Iron, you are missing out. For the most part, it's in color!
Doug