Monday, March 2, 2015
Video of C&S 9 in 1948 or 1949
C&S 9 has had three reincarnations since it's last days on the Clear Creek lines in the early 1940s. Its second return to life was for the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948 and 1949. The tiny mogul was doused in red paint and rechristened "Chief Crazy Horse" to pull visitors around the fair in the theme of an old-time western train.
I was truly surprised to have found actual video footage of number 9 at work at the fair. Here is a home video that the Youtube poster's father made of the fair. At about :41 you will see a short clip of the engine pulling past the camera. You don't get a good view of the engine, but it's her all right. She is followed by a surprisingly long train of coaches and excursion cars. The train doesn't show up anymore after that, though the narrator does mention the train as a "narrow gauge train from Colorado" later in the video.
I presume the combine and observation car are the C&S RPO car and observation car that still reside in Silver Plume.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
C&S 71's short return to life
When our family took our first trip to Colorado in 1990 we just missed C&S running. It was parked at the time in the 'station' as shown at the end of this video. Little did I know that its boiler was cold for good. Seems like C&S revived engines don't last very long. 71 made it for two years and number 9 made it for one season. Bummer.
This video can be found on Youtube. It was filmed by someone in 1988.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Georgetown Loop 1991
Georgetown Loop 1991 Media from Kurt Maechner on Vimeo.
I must give so much credit to my parents for my love of the C&S. They saw my love of this little railroad as I pored over Poor's DSP&P and Helmer's Historic Alpine Tunnel that I got from local Cleveland, Ohio libraries and decided to take several vacation trips to Colorado. This is one of several old home movies of C&S adventures. Here we rode the Georgetown Loop in 1991 with Shay #14. Shay #12 is shown steaming out of the engine house at the end in Silver Plume.
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