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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

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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!

You're welcome. It's a joy to do it.

Another video should be up in early May

That would be an awesome sight! I love all the ornate features on them in the builder's photos.

Thanks for sharing those memories! I wonder what happened to the switch stand and debris at Woodstock. I've never explored the townsite directly besides just looking from the roadbed. It doesn't look like anything is left. I envy your opportunities to have gotten in the tunnel! Interesting note about the brush along the grade. I wish the view were less obstructed. Do you still have any of those spikes left?

Over the years "scroungers" made off with most everything left in the whole area , even out of my front yard ! Most all of the wood from the structures just rots away over the years . Afraid I don't have any spikes any more , left behind when I moved. You might still find some , especially around Quartz as they stockpiled supplies there .Sit quietly at night with no people around near the tunnel and you might hear a ghostly whistle !

Always, mi hija!

Thanks! Lining up old photos with today is one of my favorite things to do. Sometimes I try to recreate the position on purpose when I take a photo and sometimes, like the one in the video here, happen by accident.

I'm going on memory here, but I thought I read that they went before the city to propose their idea and they did not receive the support or go-ahead. That's the last I heard. I hope that's not just hearsay. I too have not been able to find anything official anywhere else online.

@@searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 Sounds about right. Here say or not, that’s more information then I have found. Still strange to me that they haven’t said anything about it, but sometimes there are only so many answers.

These tracks were relaid after the railroad was long gone (I don't recall at the moment who did it). Thankfully, the part of the railroad grade that had been converted for auto use bypassed this particular section. That way it was possible to lay some track.

Someone told me recently that a budget was approved to at least give it a new roof.