Boulder Valley Railway Historical Society

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

What has happened to the Boulder Valley Railway Historical Society's collection?

Jason Midyette · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:02 pm

In no particular order;

C&S 14???, 36' wood boxcar, to Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimaron NM

C&S 543, passenger coach, to Western Maryland Scenic Railroad

Great Western 296, GP9 (ex UP 296), to Heber Valley Railroad

BN 12300, caboose, to Heber Valley Railroad

PSC of C 1, air dump car, to Sunrise Central, Chisago City MN

C&S 1771, 40' steel boxcar, to Sunrise Central (not yet moved as of late May 2017)

Up/OSL 3171, caboose body, to High Plains RR Preservation, Cheyenne, Wyoming

C&S 13121, wood boxcar body. Will be moved to Como Colorado on Monday. Will continue its career as a shed.

Jason Midyette

NS 3322 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:04 pm

GWR 296 has ended up at the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah.

And I think some of the rolling stock was listed for sale on Discover Live Steam.

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

What happened to this steam crane?

Valmont-Boulder Valley Ry. Historical Society
Industrial Works C/N 3983 Steam 1920
Public Service Co. of Colorado #1 Valmont, CO
Bill Miekle (stored at Sloss, CO)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benison/16 ... otostream/
BCRHS 2000 (museum closed 2015)
(As of 2015 the crane was still at Sloss setting on land owned by the City of Boulder.)

Jason Midyette · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:44 pm

As of late May, the crane was still stored in the same location as the linked photod shows it.

Jason Midyette

NS 3322 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:21 pm

What happened to the center-cab switcher?

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Where is the crane located in relation to the museum? I tried to find it on Google Earth with ne success.

Charlie · **Posted:** Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:11 am

The crane is a hard sucker to find even though it's not that far away from the other cars. It's located southeast of the museum on the other side of a hill. There is what looks like an abandoned mining facility and the crane is just south of that. The coordinates are: 40o01'45.97"N 105o12'38.93"W . Hope that helps, I'm not too good in dealing with coordinates.

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1270

Thanks Charlie,

I managed to find it. The land it sit on is highly contaminated with uranium and othe heavy metals. That may be the reasion the crane is still there. Hope it doesn't get torched.

Delexrax · **Joined:** Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:21 pm **Posts:** 26

Jason Midyette wrote:

C&S 14???, 36' wood boxcar, to Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimaron NM

Jason Midyette

That particular boxcar is no longer at Philmont. I have no idea where it might have gone, but something that might interest everyone here is the fact that Philmont is building a railroad in the mountains to show and demonstrate to the hikers what a mountain/logging railroad looked like. The camp is called Metcalf Station and the interesting this is that the boy scouts are actually building the line piece by piece.

Delexrax · **Joined:** Thu Oct 29, 2015 6:21 pm **Posts:** 26

http://www.beedub.com/philmont2015/thumb/2015-06-20-08-35-21._SAM_4446.JPG

This is a picture of what the line looked like two years ago in 2015

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

I think I saw on another forum that the GE center cab is now at Georgetown Loop RR, to be converted to narrow gauge.

ted66 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:56 pm

Anybody know what happened to the D&RGW 04990 Outfit box car that was at Sundown & Southern before Valmont?

Also there were some D&RGW gondolas, that came from someplace in Wyoming? They are now flat cars.

I am glad to hear the C&S #608 is going to be worked on at a new home.

Thank you Jason for all your hard work now and in the past.

Ted Miles, CRRM Member