Following the C&S over Boreas Pass - Part 2 - Windy Point to Boreas Pass summit
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 Published On May 19, 2019

81 years after the last westbound Colorado & Southern Railway passenger train left Como, Colorado in 1937, I retraced part of its journey by car on the remaining right-of-way in 2018. Along the way, former railroad locations, structures, and wreck sites are pointed out.
0:47 Windy Point
2:05 Road to Selkirk Campground
4:17 Selkirk trestle site/historical photo
5:22 Selkirk water tank site/historical photo
5:46 1890s site of train wreck/historical photo
7:42 Selkirk spur site
10:19 1936 site of train wreck/historical photo
11:57 timberline/historical photo
13:02 Boreas Pass snowshed site/historical photo
13:19 Boreas Pass summit

Historical photo credits:
Selkirk trestle: Dr. C.H. Scott Photo, from Francis Rizzari Collection
Selkirk tank: Denver Public Library Western Collection
1890 Wreck: Tom Gibbony Collection
1936 Wreck photos: George Champion Collection
Approaching timberline: A.A. Anderson Collection
Snowshed photo: George Champion Collection

All photos from The Pictorial Supplement to Denver, South Park, & Pacific: Abridged edition
-except Selkirk trestle from M.C. Poor's DSP&P

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