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| Jefferson store. Late 1800s. Park County Archives |
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| Jefferson store. Early 1900s. Park County Archives |
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| Jefferson store. Water tank is in background. 1926 Park County Archives |
Documentary evidence of the remaining sides is harder to
obtain. One long-distance photo exists
of the 1929 Denver Water Board Special, which gives some clues to the North
side, but the South and rear will have to remain conjectural.
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| Denver Water Board Special in Jefferson. January 1929. Denver Water Board |
We can surmise that the back included a loading dock of some sort, given its proximity to the siding. The Fairplay Flume reports on the 27 March, 1908 that “Merchant Lilley is unloading a 40,000-pound car of stock salt,” an operation large enough that we can assume a high volume of railroad shipments.
Further evidence appears on Feb 4, 1905, when the Flume reports
on the sale of the store: “A fair estimate of the amount of money changing
hands through this transfer is $10,000,” which is quite a sum in the early 20th
Century.
A few changes were made to the trim details in order to ease
construction in HO scale. Also shown in
the following drawings are some Grandt Line and Tichy Train Group windows and
doors which, with some modifications, can be made to closely match the
prototype.
Doors and window modifications. Each pairing shows the original on the left
(red rectangles indicate areas to be removed; yellow rectangles areas to be
modified) and the results on the right.
In the end I couldn’t make my peace with having a 6-pane transom
over the front doors and a 5-pane over the rear, so I scratch-built my rear
freight door and transom.
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| Alternate detail for scratch-building rear transom window. |
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| Work in progress. |
A PDF containing high resolution versions of the elevation drawings can be found in the files section. Happy modelling!
Jeff Young
