Parkdale
PARKDALE, COLORADO
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View looking west.
Credit: GaryM
May 2003 |
Possible Depot or
Section House
Credit: GaryM
May 2003 |
Bunkhouse & Hand Car
Shed?.
Credit: GaryM
May 2003 |
Parkdale was seated at the west end of the Grand Canon of The Arkansas. The Panoramic made an additional stop here
for Denver passengers traveling to see the famed Royal Gorge, down the Canon only 6 miles, who could disembark at
Parkdale to wait on the Colorado - New Mexico Express for a return trip back to Denver.
STATION
Elev. (ft) |
STATION
No. |
Miles
from
Denver |
Telegraph
Calls |
DIVISION |
DISTRICT
or BRANCH |
Mainline
Prototype/
Modeled |
Sidings
Prototype/
Modeled |
|
PARKDALE
5,800 |
171 |
171.17 |
PD |
FIRST |
SECOND
(PUEBLO - SALIDA) |
TBD/
SG: 20' |
TBD/
SG: 20' |
FACILITIES:
- Depot, Section House, Bunk House
- Water Tank: 50,000 gallon, Pump House
- Stockyard: 1 SG Stock
- Telegraph
- Mail Crane
- Boxcar used as personal residence, another used as chicken coop
MODELING:
- Early photos show the 50,000 gallon water tank set back from the tracks, probably had a water column.
- Parkdale was on a straight track with a siding, but we had to wrap this around a curve due to
physical layout limitations
- American Model Builder's Yard Office, Sign Posts, Outhouses.
- Campbell's Water Tank, Stock Pen, Dual Handcar Shed, Freight Shed.
- Crystal River Products Bunkhouse
- Master Creation's Depot with modified roof.
- MDC Roundhouse old time coach, old time box car.
- Walthers Telephone poles.
- Wild West Models Soon-2B Saloon, Outhouses.
- Wolf Designs Tool Shed, Coal Bin.
- Scratchbuilt cabins (2), hay shed.
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Looking west.
Credit: GaryM
July 2006 |
Looking east.
Carcard holders, right.
Credit: GaryM
July 2006 |
East across creek.
Credit: GaryM
February 2007 |
SOURCES:
- Official Roster No.11 of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad System and the Rio Grande Southern
Railroad Company, 1923, Colorado Railroad Museum.
- D&RGW Engineering Reports, Colorado Railroad Museum, 2005.
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