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When we visited Australia in 1996 we rode the Puffing Billy railroad. The locomotive was also a Baldwin!😀

Thank you! 😊

Keep up the amazing work! My wife and I own a home in Pitkin and the street we live on is the old railroad grade. The Pitkin Depot is currently for sale but way out of our price range. I've always envisioned it being open to the public but it is a private residence. Anyway, love your work and a huge DSP&P RR fan and we will stop by Como this summer. ❤🚂

@@rockymountianelkwoods4571 Yes, I had seen the real estate listing for the Pitkin depot. It looked lovingly restored - my cameras and I would like to visit it! ;-)

Currently all of our track plans are for just in Park County. We are getting about another mile of rail from Dolores and will have in on-site this year.

Our steam locomotive is receiving a comprehensive rebuild and will be back in service the summer of 2025. (There is a very remote chance of 2024.)

@@denversouthparkpacifichistoric I helped spin Klondike Kate on the Armstrong turntable.

Our locomotive will be back in service in 2025 (with a remote possibility of 2024.)

DRGW had the DSP run their stock cars to Denver because it was a shorter route than going through Pueblo.

@@denversouthparkpacifichistoric it’s a classic grande move

The track will be used for additional artifacts, including a small industrial switcher. The DRGW flatcar is 3' gauge - same as the Denver South Park & Pacific rolling stock at Como, Colorado

We are hoping to lay a quarter of mile of track over the original Main going east. We have obtained on a trade an original CRI&P semaphore. and are trying to get a GE 50-ton engine or a Witcomb 50 tonner which is what the Rock did use. The car went to Como as we were going to put a 3 rail operation like at Alamosa but that is kind of silly when our friends at Como can use it in a better way than we can. Great work by the Como people. THE PREMEIR OPERATION IN THE STATE!

Thanks! Here is a video from up on Boreas Pass: ruclips.net/video/-hUvkLW3RTA/видео.html

Wow, thank you!

Great work guys. Currently in the US until 9/12/23 See you soon!

Thanks - I am learning how to fly curves!

Glad you enjoyed it!

In terms of materials or manpower?

The tank staves will not be watertight. The original plans for the tank call for the usual wedge cutting of each stave. However the flat top tanks that C&S used actually had a vertical taper to each stave (with the top of the tank a slightly smaller diameter than the base.). Using plastic tanks inside will store the volume we need for occasional steamups (and not require that the tank be kept full to swell the staves tight enough to become water tight.). Water from a well on the roundhouse site is pumped up through the frost box in the center of the support columns.

Prototypical wooden railroad tanks required that the metal compression rings that held them tight enough to be watertight be adjusted for temperature. In our case that would include sub-zero to 80s.

Many of the great railroads had their own brass band. The Denver Brass performers dress in costume for this event.

We need the water tank for our steam locomotive "Klondike Kate." We have built a lot of track as well.

Es freut mich zu wissen, dass es für Sie interessant war. How did you hear about us???

​@@denversouthparkpacifichistoric Hey there :) Well, I think it all happend when I was looking for some kind of railroading game where you can drive a loco in first person and also do some shunting and track laying and so on. I always was a big fan of Sid Meyers Railroad Tycoon, but it lacked those features as it is a bird's eye view tycoon game... :) Then I found the game *Railroads online!* which was EXACTLY what I was looking for. It is in a pre-release-state but you can already play it. It's staged in an amazing fictive, mountainous area that instantly reminded me of the Rockies. That lead me to the whole "narrow-gauge in the US" thing and just by clicking this and that I ended up at your channel. After the first or second video I was looking up Como in google maps and thought "...what? Hartsel? Fariplay? SOUTH PARK? I know these places!" That is because I'm a very, very big fan of the TV series that is staged in your beautiful part of the world! :) Then the RUclipsr by the name Hyce - who is now working in the colorado railroad museum - started his videos about that railroading game and he also told us a lot about all the narrow gauge operations that were going on in Colorado back in the days. And so now I'm here :) It's such a cool project you have there. I was already looking at the shop you have (dspphs.org) where one can buy calendars and other merch. But do you ship to Austria as well? :D Keep up the good work! It's so good to see people taking care of preserving history and teaching it to others. Kind regards from Austria.

@@ML_314 Note that the reply below is from Kor Elzenga. He lives in the Netherlands and routinely visits Como - for years!

@@ML_314 Just sent your comments to our board, including so that the merchandise people can let me know. about shipping to Austria.

@@ML_314 On my personal channel I also have Denver and Rio Grande videos: ruclips.net/video/-6k9-stNyLM/видео.html

Note the comment from Kor Elzenga of the Netherlands - he has been visiting us every year!