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I first heard the story of the Elbert flood at a campfire at the Jewish Community Centers of Denver J-CC Ranch camp in 1960 or 1961. The counsellor there stated that half of town, including the railway station, was washed away. I always thought he had been exaggerating, but, apparently it was spot on. It was only years later that I correlated the railroad he was talking about with the C&S branch line that passed by a half mile from my elementary school, Ellis Elementary School, in southeast Denver. You could hear the occasional train on the line from the school's playground. From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 8:00 AM Subject: RE: [CBQ] Abandonment of Original C&S Denver-Colo Springs Line The original Joint Operating Agreement with the Santa Fe took effect on August 1, 1899 and thereafter there was only local service on the C&S "Old Line." But it was abandoned in segments, with service over the line between Manitou Junction and Pueblo dropped almost immediately after Joint Line operation began. By the time of the 1930s flooding the line was being operated between Denver and the Rock Island connection at Falcon, and the flood of May 30, 1935, took out large portions of the railroad in and near Elbert, resulting in an abandonment application that, upon approval, cut the line back to the outskirts of Denver.
Hol Wagner To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:11:05 -0700 Subject: [CBQ] Abandonment of Original C&S Denver-Colo Springs Line
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