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Great idea! Someone on a South Park forum told me that the section house and bunkhouse are still there. I didn't know it when I visited, but it would be neat to see.

Ha! Nice to meet you, brother! :) I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I need to get a copy of that book!

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 I have at least two of them.... there is a companion volume titled "Rio Grande Glory Days" by the same author. Do you have a website?

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 eBay has them periodically. I found both of mine at estate sales..

@@jgrahamiii7749 I looked up the book on amazon and ebay and it wasn't available anywhere unfortunately.

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 if you set a "saved search" on eBay, they do come up every so often.

Absolutely!

Thanks! I love then and now stuff too. It's always neat to think that I was standing (somewhat) close to where another photographer stood a long time ago.

I completely agree! I enjoy the D&RGW and RGS too, but my heart is with the C&S. I'm glad the others get a lot of attention, but I always enjoy it when the C&S gets some recognition too. On forums like the Narrow Gauge Discussion Forum (which is great!) it's hard to get much interest in C&S-related posts, with the exception of stuff related to the Alpine Tunnel.

Great stuff! We share the same passion for C&S and D,S,P & P RR. We have a place in Pitkin on State St which is the old ROW. I started a Facebook group called Pitkin: Then and Now a few months back and love trying to match up historical locations when I have time. Keep up the great work.

Ha! Some of Ohio City is dumpy, but some looks quite nice. Up one road there was some very nice homes. We stayed at an airbnb cabin (basically a house) about 5 minutes out of town.

What a great find! I know I can't have everything I want, but if they are going to build a walking path I wish they would at least put up a few historical signs to at least honor what was there before and help educate others on the history of the railroad.

@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 They could care less about history and its piss poor (sorry). They're more interested in appeasing to the new wave of transplants. They've removed a few of the stone walls as well. There's a few spots where sections of tracks are still in the creek. Might still be a section over by Beaver Brook. The same thing was basically done at Golden Gate City at the G.G. canyon entrance. Hurried up and built over the historic ghost town before anyone could stop it. I grew up. Close to Clear Creek Canyon, I spent a lifetime in that canyon.There isn't a whole lot of people that know it better than I do, if you ever need any help Just holler. Great page, subbed!

It is off of Spring Street

Thanks!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the tip on the captions. I do struggle with how long to leave them on. I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the future.

After you have done your 'final' edit, try replaying for yourself or better yet someone else and try reading and comprehending the caption. If you can't do both it hasn't been left up long enough.

I just went to your channel and watched a video with your model of baggage car #2. Great video and great model! I really enjoyed seeing the car in motion with a C&S train.

So glad you enjoy it! It makes it even more fun for me to share it.

It is Florence and Cripple Creek No. 56. It is stunningly restored. If you follow the link in my description for this video you'll two photos I took of it.

Oops! I mean No. 65

Thanks!

If you make the trip, give them a call in advance. Since the car is not in a public viewing location they have to get someone to open the restoration shed for you. They were happy to do so, but it took me a couple phone calls to get it arranged.

Agreed. C&S baggage car No. 3 was also on a farm in the Longmont area. It got bulldozed in 2005, so an altered baggage car is better than a bulldozed one!

Interesting! I would love to see some photos. I'm curious if any of them are C&S cars.

From what I gather, the entire body and roof are. The frame and running gear was added. Oshlo told me that some of the metal pieces that were missing were fabricated to match the remaining pieces.

The last I heard (back in 2018) was that 911 was never really restored, but just kept intact and in the museum building in Silver Plume.

You're welcome. It is good news. I was very happy to find it in the state it was.

Very cool! It's a great spot with a lot more than I expected, like the boxcar and the replica caboose. The signage was also very well done.

Glad you enjoyed the video. I am doing more videos with commentary these days, but I admit to being a music fan.

Glad you liked it!

They certainly are. With all that work up there, something's brewing!

Their website mentions finalizing work to get No. 71 moved by early 2022. Since that didn't happen by that date, I figured the project was finished. All this work there suggests that it is still moving along.

@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 Same with Facebook. They certainly aren't telling anyone about it...which I find odd.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's fun to find and share stories like these.

Thanks! That's my favorite part to do.

Will do! Thanks!

If you start near US 6 Tunnel 5, the path is on the ROW. After a short distance there are bridge abutments showing where the RR crossed to the opposite side. The ROW crosses back to the path before the abandoned Tunnel 4 (no abutments there), shortly before Forks Creek.

Thanks! I would really like to know what you find out.

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 what I found out was it was stopped by Bitching nabors and they put up a class action lawsuit to stop it !

Did you find anything out?

@@bryanhoell5886 the neighbors are trying to do a lawsuit in to stop it

@@mattomon1045 Go figure...

I bet they did!

I visited the railroad for the first time in 1990. My family and I hoped to ride behind No. 71. Brochures advertised that it would be running that summer even. Unfortunately, we arrived and everything was just sitting there with not a soul in sight. I found out years later that the line went bankrupt somewhere between '89 and '90.

I agree. It always amazes me when something so old survives especially through a mixture of chance and effort. I really enjoy finding out the stories of how C&S equipment avoided ending up in the scrap heap.

That's quite a tale! Where did you pick up that postcard?

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 Probably one of the cards I’d purchased in Denver during the years that I lived there. I’d had a routine of visiting the antique shops on South Broadway, walking distance from my residence at the time. Back then you could get postcards for 10¢, 25¢ may have been as much as a dollar, nowadays there much more expensive… I just searched eBay and didn’t see a Forks Creek postmark, but there are several cards depicting Forks Creek station. Keep an eye out and you’ll find one.

Well the YT police deleted my first response so I’ll try again. Think I’d purchased that card in Denver many years ago. It was a “Mother Grundy” card that I’d found for $1.

Thanks! I love the C&S too!

Thanks! I send double thumbs up to you as well 😂

I really enjoy you postings. When I lived in Colorado I walked or drove many of the places you have chronicled. I have seen this most recent site several times when I would be going or from Denver for my job. As this was in the early 90's when I did this, I can't vouch for how much of the old roadbed is still there. There was much left, along with abandoned bridge abutments then.

@@jgrahamiii7749 A lot of the roadbed in Clear Creek is still there. They have been building this whole network of walking/biking trails in the canyon and, while it sometimes is on the grade and sometimes not, it at least makes the grade somewhat more accessible. There are still abutments too. A little west of Forks Creek, we came upon a set of abutments that were for Bridge No. 5. I'm pretty sure the Elk Creek bridge abutment is still there too. Lots of rock cribbing is very visible too.

I agree-it is such a great drive. It's one of the best routes (along with the Pitkin to Alpine Tunnel road) to drive the old South Park Line without huge road-reconfiguration of the old RR grade.

That must have been a long walk/drive to go party!

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 it wasn't so much the trek that concerned us when what we strived for was the privacy......we may or may not have....indulged.

It's easy to get to the site of Hancock. From there it's a 3-mile hike to the east portal. One the western approach, it's a lot bumpier, but you can get to Sherrop Loop and then you have to part and walk about the same distance (3 miles) to the station complex and the west portal. They are working to reopen it for auto traffic, but it looks like that might happen next year.

You're welcome! It's always fun to have another nostalgic interlude on a Wednesday 😄

Thanks for asking. Glad you like the effect. Here's how I do it: 1. Search something like "Steam green screen" and find one you like. 2. Download that video. I purchased a program called Wondershare Uniconverter. It's been worth it because of the download option. 3. In your editing program (I use Final Cut Pro) put the downloaded green screen smoke video on top (above) of your image in a video project timeline. 4. Find an effect in your video editing program called something like "Green Screen Keyer." 5. Drag (apply) that onto (as in 'into') the green screen smoke video clip. That will remove the green and leave just the smoke. 6. After that I play around with shrinking or stretching the smoke to fit how I want. Sometimes I even layer it with the same clip to make the steam bigger and so forth. Lastly, add some audio from a steam engine and voila! I hope that makes sense.

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 Super helpful, thank you! I’ve got something working just now!

@@PistonRodProductions very cool! I'd love to see it!