Thank you for that information. I will get back to DPL and look more diligently
using place names.
Please do explore digital publishing for your C&S book. As someone who loves
(real) books, I begrudgingly say that digital may in fact be the ideal medium
for such an encyclopedic and comprehensive work. Without even getting fancy
about adding a lot of internal hyperlinks, imagine the ease of simple text
searching for references to a particular topic.
Jonathan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan:
>
> There are many photos in the Denver Public Library Western History collection
> showing the mines served by these C&S branches. Several of the photos depict
> the car loading process, and one or two show C&S locomotives. The Catskill
> Branch down into northeastern New Mexico was abandoned quite early (cut back
> to a few miles out of Trinidad by 1902), so photos of it are all but
> non-existent. It was built to serve the timber resources, and the associated
> charcoal ovens, of the Maxwell Land Grant and did so quite successfully for
> about 10 years, until the timber reserves in that area were depleted. There
> is a great deal on these various coal mine branches and spurs, as well as the
> Catskill Branch, in by manuscript on the first ten years of the C&S, but as I
> noted in an earlier post, that manuscript totals some 2 million words and
> thus is not likely to ever be published conventionally. My best hope is to
> ultimately get it online or in DVD format.
>
> Hol Wagner
>
>
>
>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: jonathanharris@...
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:45:05 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] C&S branch lines in southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico
>
>
>
>
>
>
> A posting on another list got me wondering (again) about the C&S branchlines
> around the Trinidad area that went W-SW up various valleys in southeastern
> Colorado and into northern New Mexico (to serve mostly coal mines,
> presumably). I've never found any photos of these branches at DPL nor seen
> any real description of them, other than seeing them on maps. I realize these
> branches were off the beaten track and they didn't last all that long, but
> I'm wondering if somebody has info about their operations or especially,
> knows of any relevant photos.
>
> Best to the group,
> Jonathan Harris
>
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