Garnet, Montana: Mining Flotsam & Jetsam

Wrapping up our B&W visit to Garnet Montana with odds and ends that I'l calling "Flotsam & Jetsam".

We start with the Garnet Saloon....not much to see inside, but a nice facade:

 Above: an assortment of miner's cabins, which typically only lasted ~5-10 years because they were built without foundations. and Below:  I especially liked the tool marks left by the axe on these rough hewn logs.

Typical Mining Flotsam scattered around the town

And yes, a fire hydrant, because many ghost towns have fallen victim to fires.  Some building at Garnet too.  But planning ahead, installing a fire hydrant and well insures preservation.

Warning for Medium Format Film Users!

I sent this out on Twitter, but posting here for my Blogger Friends.  For the details, go to John Sexton's May Newsletter:

The Railway Post Office

I've saved my Last Railroad posting as a Dedication to My Father, on his Birthday.  He began his Postal Service Career riding the rails for the Railway Post Office in the 1950's.  He moved to more regular postal work around the time I was born.

My Uncle Charles, however, stayed with the Railway Post Office until it's demise in the Late 1970's.

Specialized Industrial Rail Cars

Oil Carrier for the early Diesel-Electric Engines.

And yes, Coors still has an active rail system to move supplies around the Golden Brewery.  

This wraps up m Colorado Railroad Museum Postings.............But one more will post on a special day......you'll understand why later.

Baldwin Locomotive Works

This particular Engine designed for an Inclined Railroad, Probably Pikes Peak Cog Railway.  No historical listing was available online.

Miscellaneous Railroad Cars......

A note about Rail Car Humping:

Unidentified Diesel Engine........

Rotary Snow Plow

Well Worn Freight Car

With a detail from the suspension:  A Bettendorf Wheel Mount.

Kitchen and Box Car for the Denver & Rio Grande

Car # 04255 was a Kitchen Car Restored at the Museum.........

And details from a Boxcar.........

Details from Engine 491: Lessons Learned

Note to self, always take a photo of the front of the Engine so you can identify it later........This I did not do for Engine 491.  However, it had a unique pipe system which allowed me to identify it later:

Some information on Engine 491, and if you look closely you can see the pipes.......


Engine 491 was our first stop inside the Museum and I got really caught up in the gears, machinery and textures:

Engine 191 and the Galloping Goose

Engine 191, a vintage 1880's narrow gauge locomotive (oldest surviving engine in Colorado),  flanked by two examples of the Galloping Goose.  Click on the links for more historical information.

Rio Grande Reprise

Rio Grande Engines Old (Engine 5771)  and Older (Engine 318)

Saturdays Online: Engine 5629 & Heritage Railroads

One of the last of its kind in service, Engine 5629:

Needing some scale I included a photographer (below).  These wheels were ~ 5 feet in diameter.

Details of the lubricating system below:

Start here to checkout links to your Local Heritage Railroads.

Ending the Week.......

With the End of the Train..........

I've had a busy week at a conference....and dozens of great images from the Railroad Museum to edit.  So I'm finally on track to start my posting in earnest: Caboose 49.

A selection of three Cabooses from the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

If you Google the Caboose # you'll get a link to it's history....e.g. Caboose 0578

Caboose 04990

In fact all Engines and Cabooses have unique numbers that you can search on the web for more information.......

Colorado Railroad Museum

Fabulous Workshop a couple of weeks ago with Eli Vega.

Engine #191 at the Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden

Almost Lost and Found: The Road Less Traveled

Always the Road less Traveled, whenever we can:

Almost Lost and Found: Scenes from Buffalo Pass

First two different exposures of the same scene:

 

 Of course, BAAAD ME, I did not write down the exposure info.  But I did record the camera that I used and the film type (T-Max 100), so I can guess that the one above was taken on the metered values and the one below overexposed 1-2 stops.  Probably both at f/8  with my Tamron Zoom Lens on the Minolta SRT-202.

Almost Lost and Found: Grizzly Creek Ranger Station

On the east side of Buffalo Pass is a restored Ranger Station, that you can rent as lodging:

Complete with all of the amenities: Like Outdoor Plumbing!

Sundays Online: From the Pages of Almost Lost and Found

I was looking through some old images and found a group from 2011 that I had never posted.  Well, with one exception:

 I had posted this one as part of an End of Year Update......But the rest I could find no where.  So I'll be posting the series of "Almost Lost" images from Buffalo Pass over the next few days.

For our Online News:  A look at the first and last photos taken on the surface of the Moon by Humans.

Saturdays Online: Another Blast from the Past

Yale Releases Farm Administration Photos........170,0000.  Another Advantage of the Analog Process.  Also the reason the National Park Service recently advertised for a 4X5 Film Photographer.  There is just no guarantee your digital photo will be around in 100 years.  But even a poorly stored photograph or negative has a good chance of being around.