Colo. Rail Annual 21 |
*Photos here are just my additions, not from the newsletter.
January
LAST SUMMER OUR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER PUFFED his way to Alpine Tunnel, where no trains have puffed since 1910 on the South Park line. Pictures include the right of way, the debris choked portals, boarding house and depot, and a general view of entire layout from summit of Alpine pass. Six 616 size prints 50c; 13 for $1; 8 x 10 glossy enlargements at 3 for $1.50. Have nine varieties of the enlargements.February
DSP&P Mason Bogie on display in Iowa-from Pic. Sup. book |
It doesn’t seem to be generally known but the narrow gauge bogie type engine thot to have been from the South Park line, and parked on the campus at Ames, Iowa was cut up for scrap during World War II.
July
One each of the ex-Colorado & Southern box cars and stock cars are coming to be part of the MB&W [Mount Blanca & Western-the made-up railroad name used at the early Colorado Railroad Museum] roster … we are considering lettering them for the South Park.August
Mac Poor is heading a group of RMRR Club members Aug. 29 hiking to Alpine Tunnel … 30September
The names with faked dates carved in the rocks of the Palisades near Alpine Tunnel have been removed we learn by a “committee” indignant at such phoney goings on, a stick and a half of dynamite being employed along with chisels.October
From a section regarding reasons being given for abandonment of the ex-C&S Gunnison lines:One item says “in the fall of 1952 however a stock train was operated over the Baldwin Branch from Wylie to Gunnison,…but on that occasion a bridge collapsed and had to be rebuilt before the livestock could be hauled to destination.” Our reporter was present on that occasion and noted no bridge “collapsed,” only that a rotten cribbing timber had let one end of the bridge settle slightly. A bridge gang next day replaced it. Our reporter saw no signs of any bridge being “rebuilt.”
November
C&S 75 in 1931-Otto Perry Photo |
“Mac” Poor has loaned a builder’s plate from Colorado & Southern engine No. 75.
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