The St. Louis & Denver Railroad - The Build

[GPdemayo]

Greg,

Oh come on now, how much later my friend?

Inquiring minds and all that.

Tom

Probably in a week or so.....a bunch of stuff in the real world hasn't given me much time for modeling in a long time. 

[GPdemayo]

Test.....water tower at abandoned narrow gauge track at the Boreas Pass between Breckenridge and Como, CO.

[ACL1504]

Greg,

Oh come on now, how much later my friend?

Inquiring minds and all that.

Tom

Probably in a week or so.....a bunch of stuff in the real world hasn't given me much time for modeling in a long time. 

Greg,

I understand that for sure.

Tom 

[Mark Dalrymple]

Probably in a week or so.....a bunch of stuff in the real world hasn't given me much time for modeling in a long time. 

We'll hold you to that, Greg!

Is the water tower going to become an upcoming model?

I found a great double decker water tower in a NZ book called 'The Great Northern - the story of the Waiau branch'.  The tower was situated at Waiau.  Needless to say it will arrive on my layout one day...

Cheers, Mark.

[GPdemayo]

Probably in a week or so.....a bunch of stuff in the real world hasn't given me much time for modeling in a long time. 

We'll hold you to that, Greg!

Is the water tower going to become an upcoming model?

I found a great double decker water tower in a NZ book called 'The Great Northern - the story of the Waiau branch'.  The tower was situated at Waiau.  Needless to say it will arrive on my layout one day...

Cheers, Mark.

Not a future build Mark, I just pulled it from my other railroad pictures for the test.

The tank was on the Highline section of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad that ran 63 miles from Como, thru Breckenridge and onto Leadville. At the time this was the most dangerous bit of track in the nation.

However, further down the trail at an elevation of 11,428' was a section house on top of the Continental Divide and I do have a model of that that I will build. I don't have a photo of the kit, but I'll take one and post it here when I get a few minutes.

[Jim Donovan]

Greg;

Nice! Looking forward to catching up.

Jim

[GPdemayo]

Mark.....here are the photos of the Boreas Section house kit by Wild West Scale Model Builders.

[GPdemayo]

Greg;

Nice! Looking forward to catching up.

Jim

Thanks Jim.....and I'm looking forward to your future builds also. 

[GPdemayo]

I have started adding the missing pictures to the thread starting with pages #1 and #2.....to be continued.

[Keep It Rusty]

I have started adding the missing pictures to the thread starting with pages #1 and #2.....to be continued.

Excellent. Received loud and clear.

Thanks for doing this. It's nice to preserve the threads where users can

[GPdemayo]

You're welcome Craig.....it will take awhile to finish. I agree, there is a need to preserve these threads for those that come into the hobby will have a reference for all the aspects of modeling from many different perspectives. 

[GPdemayo]

The first 8 pages need to have the photos add, so with pages #3 and #4 complete, I'm about half way there.....to be continued

[ACL1504]

Pages #3 and #4 have the photos added.....to be continued

Greg,

It's a shame you have to go back and add photos. But I think it is very much worth the effort and to have the old forum back and running again.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Pages #3 and #4 have the photos added.....to be continued

Greg,

It's a shame you have to go back and add photos. But I think it is very much worth the effort and to have the old forum back and running again.

Tom

When you're right, you're right, can't improve on that.....

[Mark Dalrymple]

The tank was on the Highline section of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad that ran 63 miles from Como, thru Breckenridge and onto Leadville. At the time this was the most dangerous bit of track in the nation.

Thanks for the extra information, Greg.

It looks like a fun build.  We drove the million dollar highway on our trip to the USA in 2015.  We also took the train from Durango to Silverton.  This is as close as we got to the location of your water tank.  The drive from Telluride to Moab was the closest I felt to being in New Zealand on our five weeks in the US.  The most isolated part of our journey, and after five days in New York, something I craved.  Colorado is also very close in both population and area to New Zealand.

Cheers, Mark.