Thanks for the information. I just bought the book on Amazon for $16.95. There
is another at that price.
W. D. Hoy
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> wrote:
>
>
> C&S depots of the early 20th Century as a rule were painted either a light
> tan (depot buff) with darker brown trim or a light gray with dark green trim.
> There were numerous exceptions. The depots at coal mine towns such as
> Berwind were largely freight offices, with an agent who received the daily
> car orders from the mines and passed them along. The agent also sold tickets
> to passengers who would catch the train at the nearest mainline town. All
> the coal mine switching in both the Trinidad and Walsenburg districts wasth
> the C&S doing the actual switching for the Trinidad District and the D&RG for
> the Walsenburg District. Thus both railroads had equal access to all the
> mines, with a very few exceptions. In 1904 Hastings became a Colorado &
> Southeastern town when the C&S sold the trackage from Ludlow to Hastings to
> the newly formed C&SE, which was a subsidiary of the Victor Fuel Company
> (founded by Gen. Grenville Dodge and still partly owned by the general, who
> by this time was C&S board chairman). The C&SE built east from Ludlow to a
> connection with the D&RG at Barnes and also had trackage rights over the C&S
> south to Trinidad, where they interchanged with the Santa Fe. The C&S
> two-stall enginehouse at Hastings was soon moved to Ludlow. The mines at
> Hastings and Delagua were Victor Fuel properties, and there were a number of
> portals or adits, including at least one high up the mountainside that
> required an aerial tramway to bring the coal down to the tipple. I can't
> tell you what the large building with multiple stacks is for, but bear in
> mind that about half the mines in the Trinidad District (but not the adjacent
> Walsenburg District) produced coking coal, and much of this coal was washed
> before being transformed in the on-site coke ovens. Hastings, as shown in
> one of my present day views, had a large bank of coke ovens.
>
> As noted in another post, Cokedale, west of Trinidad on Highway 12, is the
> best (only?) preserved company town and has two large banks of coke ovens
> still standing. A visit to Cokedale alone is worth the 200-mile drive down
> from Denver.
>
> A majority of the southern Colorado mines were owned by the Colorado Fuel &
> Iron Co., and those not served by the C&S, D&RG or Santa Fe were served by
> CF&I's own Colorado & Wyoming Railway. An excellent book on the C&W,
> covering many of the coal mines and mining towns, is Bill McKenzie's Mountain
> to Mill: The Colorado & Wyoming Railway, out of print but readily found at
> www.bookfinder.com.
>
>
> Hol
>
>
>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: jonathanharris@...
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:55:13 +0000
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: C&S branch lines in southeast Colorado and northern New
> Mexico
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Poor quality" in terms of image resolution, maybe, but not in terms of
> historical information. Thank you again!
>
> Pretty desolate places, these company coal towns ? reminds me a bit of images
> from the Burlington Bulletin article on the Cambria branch.
>
> The C&S depot at Berwin is light with dark trim; not sure about the one at
> Hastings (image looking NE) ? is it the building with the pagoda overhang
> closer to the viewer, or the darker one further down the line, closer to the
> mouth of the canyon? And in the other Hastings photo (looking North), what is
> the huge building with all the stacks? And why did they need an aerial
> tramway?
>
> Jonathan
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here are a few poor quality images showing how some of the mines at Berwind
> > and Hastings, Colo., looked early in the 20th Century and how Hastings
> > looks today. Plus a shot of the UMWA memorial at Ludlow. And just for
> > grins, the charcoal ovens at Catskill, N.M., abandoned since the 1890s and
> > virtually inaccessible today, but listed on the National Register of
> > Historic Places.
> >
> > I'll send the present day images separately, as Yahoo won't accept the
> > message if I send them all at once.
> >
> > Hol
> >
>
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