June 16
Spiking Upper Blackhawk is finished and I've started putting in switches and wiring track.
My trip for my grandparent's 70th wedding anniversary turned into a research trip. I inherited a copy of the 1972 Colorado rail annual which covered the Colorado Central building up the Clear Creek and I found a bunch more information:
- I now have photos of the original 0-4-0 engines (which I did not previously have)
- The Blackhawk passenger station of photographic history is not the original station - the original station was an abandoned mill about 1/4 of a mill south that the Colorado Central cut arches into the sides of and turned into an indoor station. Now I just have to figure out where to fit that into Lower Blackhawk.
- Further, it turns out that my modifying flat cars for rolling stock was prototypical. The initial 14 cars the CC used were modified flat cars (they turned into 6 house cars, a baggage car, and 2 coal cars) so I almost have the mix the same. I have to claim serendipity on that one...
- Lastly, the railroad was constantly complaining to the UP that they needed more rolling stock. So, I'm now planning on changing my freight agent job to be far more important - he/she will be responsible for figuring out how to meet the incoming freight requests (because there will be more than the available stock can handle).
Finally, I got around to finishing the tail trestle for Central City - I'm going to take it up to the regional and see how it does (I went a little overboard on the details).
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