RE: [CBQ] Coal for Denver's Engines: CB&Q vs. C&S, Bituminous vs. Lignite

["'Harold Huber' sarge9@bresnan.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Jonathan,

I too believe that the coal was a little harder at Leyden.  Just Injected the thought with a ? behind.  I have 3' gauge traction tramway that carries all passengers on the Big Horn Southern, named Owl Creek Tramway it also carries LCL and since the coal mines are after the leyden mines it also carries all the coal on the layout.  I use the 42" tramway plans as fodder to 3' gauge.  In the garden I model Fn3 Deadwood Centeral and have finished a conbine, working on a passenger car now,  I have two passions 3' gauge and Traction so it fits together.  I am currently scratch building a Cripple Creek traction adapted to 3' gauge in HOn3.

Harold

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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Coal for Denver's Engines: CB&Q vs. C&S, Bituminous vs. Lignite

 

That is interesting, Harold. Thank you. Do you model any narrow gauge traction — either the 42" Denver Tramway or the 3' Deadwood Central? It might be fun to do the 42" in S scale using HO gauge track. I did not know much about the 42" gauge tram line, especially its role as a coal hauler. If the Leyden coal was sub-bituminous (not sure it was, but you speculated it might have been softer than the C&S's other sources) and in light of Hol's statement that the C&S preferred harder coal for its engine fuel, which it got from the southern Colorado fields around Trinidad, I wonder if their acquisition of trackage rights to the Leyden mines might have been primarily to tap that coal for freight traffic.  

Jonathan

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