tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77839829627143550422024-03-17T02:23:44.033-06:00C&Sn3Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-71356709192191764002021-08-16T07:35:00.000-06:002021-08-16T07:35:45.484-06:00New Link for the C&Sng Discussion Forum<p>The C&Sng Discussion Forum has been successfully moved to the new server. You may now find it here:</p><p> <a href="http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/" link="external" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0000ee; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px;" target="_top">http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com</a></p><p>Thank you everyone for your patience and support during this transition. Enjoy!</p>Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-64407005385177051792019-02-02T09:03:00.001-07:002019-02-02T09:03:20.310-07:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.55<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-49758711886812729592019-01-26T00:00:00.000-07:002019-01-26T00:00:06.047-07:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.54<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-64707081810613934232018-05-24T14:04:00.000-06:002018-05-24T15:06:13.837-06:00Roper Sez: It's Alive! It's Alive!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-59788347375234977632018-03-20T00:00:00.000-06:002018-03-21T07:12:32.001-06:00"Along the Blue" #31<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Table d'Hote on Snowbound Train</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Served from Sample Cases of Packing House Agents. Another Rich Tale of Winter Travel on "High Line" of the C.&S.</span></b><br />
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<b>Summit County Journal; March 20, 1909;</b><br />
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Tales of adventure by the passengers on the Colorado &
Southern train No. 71, which was blocked in the snow near Buffehr’s Siding on
Wednesday night read like fiction, but E.W. Reeme, agent for the Western
Packing Company, who was one of the victims, says that every word of it is
true. Those who do not believe what he says are requested to ask George B.
Christensen, the Armour agent about it. James L. Smith and Robert J. Clark, of
the Leadville Light and Power Company, were also on the train and are prepared
to verify his statements, relates Sunday’s Herald Democrat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We left Kokomo
Wednesday evening about forty minutes late,” said Reeme in telling his
experiences yesterday. “It was then a warm spring day. The sun was shining
brightly, and there was not a bit of wind. When we neared Robinson a strong
wind came up. At Buffehr’s spur we found a freight train stuck in the snow,
which had been blown across the tracks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The passenger
engines were cut loose to take the freight back to Kokomo. By the time they
returned the snow was several feet deep. Half a mile east of Buffehr’s the
engines were taken off to do some bucking. They bucked so hard that soon they were
nearly a mile away from the rest of the train. By the time they were ready to
get to the coaches, a ten-foot drift had been blown across the track between
the engines and the cars. It was impossible for them to get through. There we
were compelled to stay all night. It was cold and stormy, and the passenger had
had little to eat. While no new snow was falling, the wind was picking up what
lay on the ground and hurled it about the cars as if intended to wall us in so
that we could never get out.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There was no
sleeping for any of us that night. We tried to keep up a fire in the little
stove, but we had to hug up against it closely to keep warm. Fortunately there
were no women nor children on the train, and we acquired considerable heat from
the sulphurous talk that most of us put up in discussing our hard luck.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the worst
part in Reeme’s story, but he says it’s just as true as the rest of it. When
the passengers got hungry, he and Christenson opened their sample cases of
packing meat and distributed it among their fellow sufferers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By taking a
sardine and wrapping a piece of chipped beef around it, they formed a first
class sandwich, which went pretty good on an empty stomach. Some pickled tongue
took the place of vegetables and they had smoked ham for dessert. After it was
all over, someone ordered soup. Christensen opened a box of pork and beans,
mixed it with gold water and served as good a dish of soup as any caterer ever
set before his guest.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Thursday
morning the passengers walked to Kokomo and got some breakfast. That afternoon
they learned that the rotary was coming. The same evening, the rotary passed
through, and later in the night came back with the passenger coaches and all
but one of the engines. In rescuing the last engine, the fan of the plow was
broken, and it was necessary to go back to Como for repairs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday morning
prospects for getting home were no better, so Reeme and Christensen decided to
walk. They bought two pairs of skis and started overland, following the general
route of the railroad over most of the way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While their trip
was not as dangerous as it might have been, they suffered more from sunburns
than from anything else. They have felt no ill effects from eating the meat
samples, and so far as they can learn none of the others passengers did,
either.</div>
Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-21251258995120138122017-10-28T00:00:00.000-06:002017-10-28T00:00:00.627-06:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.53<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-54550124982617574362017-10-21T00:00:00.000-06:002017-10-21T00:00:18.693-06:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.52<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-31413052924728621252017-10-14T10:00:00.000-06:002017-10-16T10:01:40.393-06:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.51<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-54748579164095463222017-10-07T00:00:00.000-06:002017-10-07T00:00:18.307-06:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.50<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-35185482302069668272017-06-24T00:00:00.000-06:002017-06-24T00:00:33.821-06:00Roper's Snapshot Saturday No.49<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-22703649295202575572017-04-13T11:26:00.000-06:002017-04-13T11:26:00.242-06:00Jefferson General Store<b> Jeff Young</b> - While the original Jefferson general store was lost to fire <i>ca</i>.
1929, a number of photographs exist of the front, including a nicely
orthographic one from which to take measurements.<br />
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /> We can surmise that the back included a loading dock of some
sort, given its proximity to the
siding. The <i>Fairplay Flume</i>
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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Doors and window modifications. Each pairing shows the original on the left
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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
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<br /> A PDF containing high resolution versions of the elevation
drawings can be found in the files section.
Happy modelling!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Jeff Young</b></div>
Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-90251828203800712602017-03-16T14:57:00.001-06:002017-04-03T08:17:35.259-06:00Garos General Store<div class="Body">
<b>Jeff Young</b> - According to Virginia McConnell in <i>Bayou Salado</i>, the Garos
General Store started life in Chubb’s Ranch (later called Newitt), and was
moved to Garos in 1885 on two flat cars.
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In the early 1930s, some of the walls were covered in wood
shingles. In the first picture, note the
bundle of shingles leaning against the fence, an the tar-paper between the
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<b>Happy
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<b>Jeff Young</b></div>
Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-21937125004535350572017-01-11T09:36:00.004-07:002017-10-16T14:25:07.302-06:00IN ICTU OCULI - A Gilpin Tram Farewell<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b> Keith Pashina</b> - And in the blink of an eye, The Gilpin Railroad was gone!<o:p></o:p></div>
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100 years ago this week, the Colorado & Southern Railroad sent a
dispatch to the Gilpin Railroad on January 12, 1917, and the Register-Call newspaper reported that
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“ordering all the tram cars, engines, and the other
equipment, to be in the roundhouse of the company, by Monday, the 15th… That
date ends the control of the line by that company (the C&S), and the
transfer of the line to Denver parties, who have bought the road, will be made
later. Reports have bee in circulation that the new owners intend to operate
the line if then can make it a paying proposition, and if the find to be a
white elephant on their hands, the line will be scrapped, and sold as junk.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately, the tramway could not be run profitably, and
the Register-Call reported the $67,000 of company bonds had been sold to
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After various legal proceedings, the final sale was made on
June 2, 1917, to the Radetsky Brothers.
Thereafter, scrapping of the line proceeded. By October of that year,
trackage had been ripped up back to Chase Gulch, and the final removals to the
enginehouse completed a few weeks afterward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Only a few remnants of the Gilpin Tram survived. The three
shays, numbers 3, 4, and 5, were sent to Radetsky’s Denver scrap yard potential
sale. There they sat for many years, with no buyers, and were scrapped in 1938.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twenty of the Tram’s unique ore cars were purchased by the
Iron City Mill, and used to transfer ore from a nearby loading point to the
mill. Initially, these cars were hauled by horses, and later an internal
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Everything else – rolling stock, rail, and machinery were
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The Gilpin Tram originally had a bright and prosperous
start, when, on December 11, 1887, the first ore shipments were made. The
Gilpin Tram was a technological marvel in its day, efficiently reaching many of
the major producing mines and reducing shipping costs. The tramway allowed
lower-grade ores, formerly not economical to mine, to now be extracted for
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This prosperous little railroad did not go unnoticed. The
Colorado & Southern Railroad recognized the traffic that the tramway could
feed them outbound ore and concentrates, and inbound coal and other supplies.
Also, new railroad construction to the north (the Denver, Northwestern and
Pacific) was threateningly close, and there was talk of building feeder lines
north from Central City to reach this standard gauge line. This could not be
allowed, and so on June 27, 1906, the Gilpin Tramway Company became wholly
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But, the mining industry did not stand still. As the mines
grew deeper, removal of subsurface water became more of a problem. Innovations
in drilling appeared, too, and soon, haulage tunnels from Idaho Springs could
be built to reach to bottom levels of many Gilpin County mines, draining the
troublesome water, and hauling out the ore. Although many tunnels were started,
it was the Newhouse Tunnel from Idaho Springs that reached the mines. Ongoing
expansion by the Newhouse Tunnel was now taking over more and more ore haulage
from the producing mines in the district. Already, the tunnel had tapped former
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treating ores on a regular basis. What had started out as a European war in
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-63741953431542050162016-10-10T15:18:00.001-06:002016-10-10T15:18:49.383-06:00Someday... <b>Darel Leedy</b> - Someday I hope to have the eagerness of a fire breathing steam locomotive. But for now my modeling enthusiasm feels more like an empty boxcar sitting in a lonely freight yard. Thank you to all of you who have made the discussion forum the place to congregate and keep my interest alive. Hopefully my Form 19 will be issued soon!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kenneth Martin is proud to announce here first on the C&Sn3, his new self published book of Colorado and Southern passenger car drawings.</div>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-38173626997721897322016-07-18T09:27:00.003-06:002016-07-18T09:27:53.957-06:00Upcoming Webcomic: C&Sng with a Twist<div class="MsoNormal">
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last several years, and those with ties to the South Park may be particularly
interested. "Wings & Strings" is a series which will follow the
lives of a footplate crew working out of Como's great stone cathedral of a
roundhouse at the turn of the century, just as the Colorado & Southern narrow gauge is coming into its
own. The main characters are fictitious, but many notable South Park icons will
flesh out the community, including senior engineer George "Jumbo"
Miller, second-in-seniority Sam Speas, and others. Even the nameless shop
crewmen and others from various C&S photograph archives will make cameo
appearances.<br />
<br /> Many aspects of the C&S and daily life along the line will be faithfully
recreated. However, there is one addition to the world in this series that
allows it to occasionally wander from the historically fictitious into the
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to have a setting in which they coexisted, due to the vast number of parallels
between them: grand and fearsome breeds, oceans churning in their bellies,
infernos raging in their hearts, their laborious breath thick with embers and
soot, their large golden eyes beaming brightly as they fly across prairies wide
and mountains tall. Yet a modern world has left both on the wayside, a sense of
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comic. Since only two known photos exist of the roundhouse's interior during
operations--and both are very rough and dark with limited perspective--I have
instead opted to use Don Pacetti's fantastic HOn3 modeling of the roundhouse
interior as a guide for placing machinery and other details, since the interior
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<br /> Beyond just a simple webcomic format, a multi-media aspect comes into play in
the form of a musical score--which will be written and performed myself--for
each uploaded set of panels, as well as occasional small bits of animation to
enhance certain scenes, like this gif of Brooks mogul No. 17, "Alma,"
which was written off the actual C&S books around 1902 but remains under
the care of the comic's main characters, Lloyd & Luz O'Leary, pictured
below. This engine was chosen to avoid writing over the stories of other
C&S engineers and firemen, whom were very closely tied to specific engines
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> I'll continue to post updates to my main page, </span><a href="http://wings-and-strings.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">wings-and-strings.tumblr.com</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">,
and the comic's first chapter will be uploaded to </span><a href="http://wings-and-strings-comic.tumblr.com/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">wings-and-strings-comic.tumblr.com</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> once
it is ready. Often, I'll stream a live video feed of my art progress at </span><a href="https://picarto.tv/WingsAndStrings" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">https://picarto.tv/WingsAndStrings</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> so
that others can watch the comic's creation in real time. Anyone's welcome to
join the stream when it's up, and you can follow either the main site or the
Picarto channel to get notifications for when I'll be streaming. There's also a
thread for this comic in the <a href="http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/Upcoming-Webcomic-C-amp-S-Narrow-Gauge-with-a-Twist-td5508.html" target="_blank">C&Sng Discussion Forum</a>.</span></div>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-17001023038749901402016-05-09T12:46:00.000-06:002016-05-09T12:46:39.003-06:00SlackerRoper thanks Roy for the bump (-;<br />
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Thanks to Jim Courtney, there is a new thread in the <a href="http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/C-amp-S-Narrow-Gauge-in-Color-td5158.html#a5174" target="_blank">C&Sng Discussion Forum</a> for views of the C&S in color. Here's hoping some never before published photos turn up! Regardless, it will be nice to have a collection of views in one location. Enjoy if you visit.<br />
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Keith Pashina sent this view to Roper from the November 9, 1905, Mining Reporter Magazine. The Gold Pan was a major customer on the C&S. More information and photos can be found in "Gold Pan Mining Company and Shops" by Maureen Nichols (Quandary Press 1994).</div>
Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-62571692854188234582016-01-14T10:52:00.000-07:002016-01-14T10:52:11.326-07:00Canned Ham<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b> Darel Leedy</b> - So, I wont be making as much progress on the layout as I had planned after all.<br />
A barn find purchase over the holidays will keep me consumed for the foreseeable future. You can follow along on the blog I created to document the restoration process here: <a href="http://auntbeescannedham.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Aunt Bee's Canned Ham</a><br />
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John then forwarded an email from Mel Patrick. Mel would like assistance identifying the location of the photo below. His original email:<br />
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<b>Darel Leedy</b> - Introducing Wilson. I am sure his great grand Pappy (pictured below, first in line) would have approved of his new status as historical curator of the C&Sn3 blog. I just hope he isn't going to be too much of an ass around here. </div>
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Wilson, Roper and I would like to wish all C&S fans a <b>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!</b> </div>
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Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-64692499722349642792015-12-10T12:56:00.000-07:002015-12-10T12:56:36.706-07:00Roundhouse Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Don Pacetti sent along this progress photo of his Como roundhouse. You can view photos of C&Sn3 members modeling and layouts by clicking the links below the main title header at the top of the page. Enjoy if you visit!Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-49793483591193431212015-11-27T11:48:00.000-07:002015-11-28T23:10:34.996-07:00Back In The Saddle <br />
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<b> Darel Leedy</b> - (Blog post #200!) We hope you'all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. After an extended hiatus of not posting, Roper and I are ready to settle into winter mode and get some modelling done. We hope to be posting views of some completed scenery soon!<br />
I've also invited my friend Keith Pashina to blog about his Gilpin Tram modeling both here and in the forum (the Gilpin was owned and operated by the C&S). Keith and I go way back with a common interest of all things Gilpin.<br />
A few others have also expressed interest in contributing to the blog as well. Don Pacetti will be blogging about his HOn3 modeling. I have added his layout to the database which can be viewed by clicking <a href="http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/p/como-hon3_27.html" target="_blank">"Como HOn3"</a> just below the main header of the blog.<br />
I want to take a moment to thank you all for making the <a href="http://c-sn3-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/" target="_blank">Discussion Forum</a> such a phenomenal success! I am simply amazed at the amount of information being shared and discovered (thus taking the pressure off of getting things posted to the blog!). I don't think you can find a better resource of C&S information anywhere online. Much of it so new you won't find it in any publications either.<br />
Thanks also to all the other model railroad bloggers out there no matter your subject matter. Your posts are an inspiration to keep Roper and I populating the Blogosphere.<br />
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<b>~ Cowboy Up!</b>Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7783982962714355042.post-41433558807313615742015-10-06T10:50:00.001-06:002015-10-06T10:55:47.728-06:00New Files Uploaded<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hf7jTlQ2IR4/VhP7OGTTmzI/AAAAAAAADXQ/_svbzdWubI8/s1600/12%2BRotary%2B99210%2B%2528Jull%2BRotary%2BPlow%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hf7jTlQ2IR4/VhP7OGTTmzI/AAAAAAAADXQ/_svbzdWubI8/s640/12%2BRotary%2B99210%2B%2528Jull%2BRotary%2BPlow%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<b> Darel Leedy</b> - As a reminder, be sure to check out the "Files" tab under the main header. Many a wonderful high resolution document have been posted here. A big thank you to all who have shared their information! If you have something you'd like to share, send me an email by clicking on the Moderator's profile, and I will provide the necessary procedure.Darel Leedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654654924870626847noreply@blogger.com3