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C&Sng Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge Ferrell w dust jacket
C&S ng Colorado And Southern Narrow Gauge By Mallory Ferrell
The Bear trap stack era and the final years of C&S Narrow gauge operations in the Colorado High Country.
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket Dust jacket has damage
Copyright 1981 FIRST EDITION
238 Pages
Dedicationvi
Acknowledgmentsvii
Introduction viii
Chapter 1:
A Brief History Of The C&Sng11
Chapter 2:
Smoke In The Canyon35
Chapter 3:
South Park Glory Days87
Chapter 4:
Last Train To Leadville 138
Chapter 5:
End Of The Narrow Gauge153
Chapter 6:
A Garland Of C&Sng Equipment 207
Bibliography235
Contributing Photographers235
Index 236
List of Maps
Gulf Road and South Park
Line (1898) 12
Forks Creek C&S72
Colorado & Southern Railway (1899) 94
Leadville-C&S Trackage 117
C&S Denver Yards 122
Como, Colorado-C&Sng
Division Point 132
Since high school days I have been absorbed by the works of Lucius Beebe social habits notwithstanding and his devotion to "burning of Rome" steam photography. Unlike Beebe however I am concerned with the "nuts and bolts" of railroading as well. Such details as lettering styles, headlight changes air pump location, and the nitty-gritty that would only be of interest to a true devotee, have become as much a part of my research as the photographs themselves.
Thus, with a lifelong interest in things narrow gauge, remote, steam and archaic, it seems only natural that a pictorial work should be produced on the twisting trackage and trains that have occupied my interest for so many years. Much has been written of the South Park Line and its history, of the building of Alpine Tunnel and the early Clear Creek operations of the Colorado Central. The reader will find that story in the works of Mac Poor Cornelius Hauck and others. What you will find here is a high, wide, and handsome look at the Colorado & Southern narrow gauge in its closing decades, unkempt, unadorned, leaking steam flaking paint and looking like time had passed her by.
Like the fading mining camps she served, the Colorado & Southern had once seen better days. The C&S came into being in 1899 as a reorganization of the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison and the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf lines. The Colorado & Southern inherited a legacy of high country railroading, small engines, and steep grades.
The Denver, Leadville & Gunnison was itself a reorganization of the famed Denver. South Park & Pacific ... the South Park Line that snaked from Denver to Como and on to Leadville and Gunnison via the ill-fated Alpine Tunnel. Beyond Gunnison, the unfinished palisades and grade up Ohio Creek testify to plans of continuing westward to the "Pacific" of its corporate name.
The Union Pacific Denver & Gulf's narrow gauge had been constructed in the 1870s as the Colorado Central up Clear Creek Canyon to Forks Creek, where one line branched off to Black Hawk and Central City, while the other continued on to Idaho Springs Georgetown, and Silver Plume over the famous Georgetown Loop.
In later years Colorado & Southern equated with small 2-6-0s on daily passenger trains, squat 2-8.0s doubleheaded up Kenosha Pass. "Bear Trap stacks" and the lost glory of Leadville, Breckenridge, Como, Alpine, Georgetown and Central City.
This then is an unabashed look at the Colorado & Southern narrow gauge in its fading glory. its final decades of operation: air tanks perched atop the boiler, trailing a four-wheel caboose and smoking up Clear Creek, over Kenosha and across the great expanse of the South Park ... looking for all the world as though it would never end.
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