Nostalgia & History > Switcher Saturday: Reaching back in Denver

Other than the joint C&S ~ AT&SF arrangement, I don’t know a whole about this scene except: WOW! Once upon a time railroad men used to show up for work and switch freight cars all the live long day with engines like this...

1. C&S/AT&SF 605 at the roundhouse in Denver, CO on March 10, 1956.
Clayton Tinkham photo, from the Oliver Gibson collection via Art Gibson

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Art Gibson (wag216)
Remembering the late “Uncle Ollie”, aka William Oliver Gibson



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/23 03:30 by santafe199.

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A true treasure of a steam roster shot.
Bob

That's one fine looking engine.
john
 

Lance, you told me you had a neat posting for today and it sure is. It looks like the engine is very clean for 1956, when a lot of photos from that time frame show engines not being clean like this one, plus a perfect (to me) picture of a steam engine, shows lots of detail. Keep up the good work, 7kscav

Nice shot, Lance!

RC Lundgren

And rods down, too!

Wonderful shot!!! Thank you for sharing it.

rrpreservation Wrote: > ... Thank you for sharing ...

I sure wish Bill (WAG Sr) was still alive to enjoy TO and to see your thanks. And I'm 100% sure he would tell you "You are very much welcome!" He would have enjoyed that very much...

Lance/199

The neighborhood in back of the tender is really intriguing to me it's pretty 25 pre-diamond Hill office is Pre mile high stadium across the South Platte river, as well as the fabulous foreground