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[CBQ] Re: C&S branch lines in southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:44:00 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Jonathan and all:

This is pretty obscure and remote C&S trackage even though it's not far 
 from Raton as the crow flies.  The information below refers to the 
Maxwell Land Grant, New Mexico's largest grant, as I recall, which 
extended into Colorado but mostly was in New Mexico taking in a huge 
section of forest, range and coal country around, south and west of 
Raton.  My additions in parentheses.

This is from: Myrick, David F., "New Mexico's Railroads: A Historical 
Survey," University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, N.M., Revised 
Edition, 1990, pp. 136-37.

"The Colorado and Southern operated only one branch in New Mexico.  
Dating back to the days of the DT&FW (Denver, Texas & Fort Worth), the 
14-mile branch was built from Trinidad, Colorado, to Sopris, thence up 
Long's Canyon in 1888, terminating at Maxwell, Colorado.  In 1890, the 
managers of the Maxwell Land Grant, in a further move to develop their 
resources, persuaded General (Grenville) Dodge to extend the Maxwell 
branch along Long's Canyon into New Mexico to Cemetery Canyon where it 
looped back to climb over the ridge to a point in the Canadian River 
basin which was given the name of Catskill.  To meet the objective of 
the managers of the grant, the railroad was extended in both directions 
along the Canadian River from Catskill to serve the prospective lumber 
operators.  Northwesterly, a 12-mile branch was built to Vasquez in 
1890 while a nine-mile branch was built southeasterly to Dunn's and 
Newton between 1890 and 1897.  In all, the C&S lines southwest of 
Trinidad totaled 48 miles of which about 30 miles were in New Mexico."

Myrick goes on to say 11 sawmills were built on the branch but didn't 
generate enough traffic to support the line.  All but five miles of the 
track were pulled up in 1902 and 1908 with that last five miles 
(Trinidad-Jansen-Long's Junction) taken up in 1940.

The C&S main from Trinidad through Clayton, N.M., to Amarillo, Texas, 
continues in operation, of course, but sometime after the BNSF merger 
became directional westbound hosting empty unit coal trains and other 
traffic.

Bill

Bill Diven
Placitas, N.M.

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