Crain's
Colorado Narrow Gauge Circle Tour
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada, T4T
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Updated 10 Sep 2005 c.1998 - 2008 E. R. Crain, P.Eng. All Rights
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Part
10: South Park City
Railway Pages Index
Breckenridge
and Fairplay were major mining centers on the original DSP&P
mainline. South Park City is an historical village started
in 1959 and run by the South Park Historical Foundation.
The buildings have been gathered from many locations to represent
a typical small town at the turn of the century. They are
in good condition and hold many interesting artifacts. The
train depot is from Buffalo, CO.
The
locomotive is a non-operating 1914 Porter-built Mogul (2–6–0)
from a banana company in Guatemala. It is somewhat similar
to Moguls that once ran on the C&S.
There are a number of freight cars and a caboose painted with
DSP&P markings, but the lettering is not authentic in appearance.
The cars themselves may be ex-C&Sng but there is no indication
of their provenance. Photos are from 1994.

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Websites
of Interest
http://www.southparkcity.org/ghosttown_tour.htm
http://www.railway-eng.com/dspp/
http://www.narrowgauge.org/ncmap/ted/dspp2_leadville.html
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
E.
R. (Ross) Crain, P.Eng. is a Consulting Petrophysicist and a Professional
Engineer with over 40 years of experience in reservoir description,
petrophysical analysis, and management. He has been a specialist
in the integration of well log analysis and petrophysics with
geophysical, geological, engineering, and simulation phases of
oil and gas exploration and exploitation, with widespread Canadian
and Overseas experience.
"I
am a life-long model railroader and have modeled in O27, HO, HOn3,
and N Scales. Failing eyesight brought me to G Scale. My father
started me in model railroading as a tiny tot in 1944 - he scratch
built his first locomotive in 1940, the year I was born, and I
still have this loco on my mantle-piece. I am a Life Member (#517)
of NMRA, a member of the Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders (Calgary,
Alberta), and have toured a lot of model railways, railway shows,
and garden railways. I have never seen a model railway I didn’t
like. An extensive library of railway magazines and books, covering
topics that appeal to me, sit behind my office desk, ready to
be put to use at a moments notice. I hope these pages can communicate
to you some of my accumulated experience, my successes and failures,
and my love of model railways."
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