Denver South Park & Pacific Historical Society
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The Story of The Como Project
Chuck and Kathy Brantigan bought the Denver, South Park & Pacific's Como roundhouse in 2002 to preserve it. In 2016 they started the South Park Rail Society and acquired a 1912 Baldwin Prairie type steam locomotive "Klondike Kate." She was built for the Klondike railroad in Canada and also operated on the White Pass & Yukon railroad out of Skagway, AK.
Many volunteers have helped with restoring the Como campus, including the original Como depot, track construction, and rebuilding the water tank.
Recently they acquired the Como hotel and have plans to refurbish it. Over a miles worth of rail is now on site and it is hoped to extend the tracks to the site of the King wye on the other side of the valley.
Como is becoming a recognized site for rail fans from all over to immerse themselves in the heritage of Colorado narrow gauge railroading.
For more information visit: www.southparkrailsociety.org. and dspphs.org
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Cameraman Notes:
This was made with a Sony PXW-X70, a pair of Sony PXW-Z150s, and a DJI Osmo Pocket 2 and a SJI Mavic Pro 2 drone. Audio was from Sennheiser MKH 416-P48U3 and MKE 600 microphones and a Blue Yeti Pro microphone.
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Відео

Como Calendar for 2024
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Open Houses: Saturday June 15, Saturday July 20, Saturday Sept. 21 & 28 Como's Boreas Pass Railroad Day: Saturday August 17 Work Days Saturday May 18, Saturday June 1, Work Week Saturday June 15 - 22, Saturday July 6 &20 Saturday Aug. 3, Como Railroad Day setup Thursday Aug 15 & Friday Aug. 16, Saturday Sept 7, 21 & 28. For more information visit DSPPHS.org and SouthParkRailSociety.org.
Jefferson, Colorado Depot - Denver South Park & Pacific
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Jefferson, Colorado Depot - Denver South Park & Pacific
Como Railroad Day 2023
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This year at the Como Railroad Campus we had speeder rides, the historic artifact car, and roundhouse tours. Our Klondike Kate was on display (with a forecast return to service for 2025.) For more information visit DSPPHS.org and SouthParkRailSociety.org
DSPPHS Track Work Day at Calhan -D&RGW Flatcar acquisition
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We travelled to Calhan, Colorado to the preserved Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific depot to build track for the Rocky Mountain Railroad Heritage Society (rmrhs.org) In exchange, they gave us a Denver & Rio Grande Western flatcar. Our Como workdays are Saturdays 7/29, 8/12, 9/2, 9/16 & 9/30. Como Railroad Day is Saturday 8/19. Visit DSPPHS.org and Southparkrailsociety.org
Como Summer 2023 Update
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This video features drone and closeup video of Como for Summer 2023. Our 1912 Baldwin steam locomotive Klondike Kate is receiving a comprehensive rebuild. The water tank deck is nearly done. Open Houses include Saturdays 7/15 and 9/16 and Como Railroad Day is Saturday 8/19. For more information visit DSPPHS.org and SouthPark RailSociety.org
Boreas Pass, Colorado
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Boreas Pass is located between Breckenridge and Como, Colorado. It was used by the Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad and the 1881 section house still exists. (The engine house and snowsheds no longer exist.). Boreas Pass is located at the Continental Divide at an elevation of 11,538'. Summit County is on the west side of it and Park County is on the east side.
Como's Boreas Pass Railroad Day 2022
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Despite Klondike Kate being out of service we still had fun this year at the Como Railroad Campus. For more information visit DSPPHS.org and SouthParkRail.org
Como Water Tank Summer 2022
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We have been working on our new water tank. It will be used by Klondike Kate (and be available to the local fire department.). For more information visit DSPPHS.org and southparkrailsociety.org
Como Track Work Summer 2022
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We have been working on installing new track turnouts (aka "switches.). For more information visit DSPPHS.org and southparkrailsociety.org
Como Rolling Stock Projects Summer 2022
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Our two big rolling stock projects this year are rebuilding Klondike Kate and our C&S gondola. For more information visit DSPPHS.org and southparkrailsociety.org
Como Structures
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The buildings and structures of Como. For more information visit DSPPHS.org and southparkrailsociety.org
2022 Work Day Schedule
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On our first workday this year we salvaged 285 ties. Our future workdays in Como for 2022 include: Saturday May 21st Work Week - Saturday June 4th - June 11th Saturday July 23rd Saturday August 6th Thursday & Friday August 18th & 19th - Boreas Preparation Saturday August 20th - Boreas Pass Railroad Day Saturday September 3rd Saturday September 17th Saturday October 1st For more information visi...
DSP YIR 2021 Part 2*
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Our big project for this year was getting started with a new water tank. Steam locomotive "Klondike Kate" is getting some needed maintenance. We built more track, and accomplished more projects and tasks. We are grateful to our volunteers and donors! Visit our websites: DSPPHS.org & southparkrailsociety.org
DSP YIR 2021 Part 1*
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Our big project for this year was getting started with a new water tank. Steam locomotive "Klondike Kate" is getting some needed maintenance. We built more track, and accomplished more projects and tasks. We are grateful to our volunteers and donors! Visit our websites: DSPPHS.org & southparkrailsociety.org
Como Depot Interior & Artifacts.
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Como Depot Interior & Artifacts.
Como Workday May 22 2021
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Como Workday May 22 2021
SPRS & DSP&PHS Volunteer Needs for 2021
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SPRS & DSP&PHS Volunteer Needs for 2021
Volunteer Needs for 2021
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Volunteer Needs for 2021
DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 2 4K&
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DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 2 4K&
DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 1 4K +
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DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 1 4K
DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 3 4K +
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DSP&PHS Year in Review 2019 2020 Part 3 4K
Boreas Pass Railroad Day Aug. 17th 2019
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Boreas Pass Railroad Day Aug. 17th 2019
Como Rivets
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Como Rivets
Como Track Work
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Como Track Work
Denver Brass at Boreas Pass Railroad Day 2018
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Denver Brass at Boreas Pass Railroad Day 2018
Restoration of the Como Roundhouse
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Restoration of the Como Roundhouse

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @CharlesBrown-dd8vz
    @CharlesBrown-dd8vz День тому

    Great band!

  • @jeep1943
    @jeep1943 Місяць тому

    I’m just waiting for the great continental shift so I can visit. Love what you are doing. Best wishes from Australia .

    • @JamesMackayColorado
      @JamesMackayColorado Місяць тому

      When we visited Australia in 1996 we rode the Puffing Billy railroad. The locomotive was also a Baldwin!😀

  • @roberttosa2560
    @roberttosa2560 3 місяці тому

    Outstanding!

  • @DanSHJ45
    @DanSHJ45 3 місяці тому

    When I grow up I can only hope to be half as cool as Chuck and Kathy are. The Como complex is a really, really special place.

  • @ML_314
    @ML_314 3 місяці тому

    Just beautiful! :)

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric 3 місяці тому

      Thank you! 😊

    • @rockymountianelkwoods4571
      @rockymountianelkwoods4571 3 місяці тому

      Keep up the amazing work! My wife and I own a home in Pitkin and the street we live on is the old railroad grade. The Pitkin Depot is currently for sale but way out of our price range. I've always envisioned it being open to the public but it is a private residence. Anyway, love your work and a huge DSP&P RR fan and we will stop by Como this summer. ❤🚂

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric 3 місяці тому

      @@rockymountianelkwoods4571 Yes, I had seen the real estate listing for the Pitkin depot. It looked lovingly restored - my cameras and I would like to visit it! ;-)

  • @johne.worsham8608
    @johne.worsham8608 4 місяці тому

    Will your tracks meet up with and or connect with the Rio Grande Railroad in South Fork?

    • @JamesMackayColorado
      @JamesMackayColorado 4 місяці тому

      Currently all of our track plans are for just in Park County. We are getting about another mile of rail from Dolores and will have in on-site this year.

  • @stevemellin5806
    @stevemellin5806 8 місяців тому

    I hope to get Thier some day

  • @farmerdave7965
    @farmerdave7965 9 місяців тому

    Has Klondike Kate been repaired ?

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric 9 місяців тому

      Our steam locomotive is receiving a comprehensive rebuild and will be back in service the summer of 2025. (There is a very remote chance of 2024.)

    • @farmerdave7965
      @farmerdave7965 9 місяців тому

      @@denversouthparkpacifichistoric I helped spin Klondike Kate on the Armstrong turntable.

  • @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853
    @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 9 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing this! I always love visiting the Jefferson depot, but besides getting inside part of it back when it was an ice cream shop I've never seen much of the inside. It was great to see the interior in this video. The owners have done a great job. I meant him in the fall of 2022 when they were working on it. He also plans on turning the BN caboose into an Airbnb as well.

  • @christopherhutchinson8043
    @christopherhutchinson8043 9 місяців тому

    😎 , how's the engine coming on ?

  • @Two_Bears
    @Two_Bears 9 місяців тому

    Awesome restoration

  • @korelzenga2305
    @korelzenga2305 9 місяців тому

    Nice video James! We’ll done.

  • @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853
    @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853 10 місяців тому

    Well done! I never tire of seeing so much progress at Como. So great to see so many people enjoying it too!

  • @OfficialDenverRioGrandeWestern
    @OfficialDenverRioGrandeWestern 10 місяців тому

    Wait a minute *RIO GRANDE HAS ENTERED THE SOUTH PARK LINE*

  • @wayneakins7850
    @wayneakins7850 10 місяців тому

    Thats on my bucket list

  • @Two_Bears
    @Two_Bears 11 місяців тому

    Good project. Lived in Colorado for years until cost of living drove me out. Retirement sometimes couldn’t keep me afloat financially there. Keep up with the work! Some of us are there with you folks if not physically.

  • @marksteiner3810
    @marksteiner3810 11 місяців тому

    Great railroad history and scenery at Boreas Pass. Have hiked in he area a number of time. Need to return and examine the progress being made at Como. Thanks.

  • @marksteiner3810
    @marksteiner3810 11 місяців тому

    On to Boreas Pass!

  • @BSNCJLproductions
    @BSNCJLproductions Рік тому

    I wonder if the reason why the Rocky Mountain Railroad Historical Society asked you to build the track is because they want to revive the lost train business in Calhan. I’d also be surprised if the reason why that Ex. D&RGW flatbed is going to Como is because the car is a Narrow Gauge car, not a Standard Gauge car.

    • @JamesMackayColorado
      @JamesMackayColorado Рік тому

      The track will be used for additional artifacts, including a small industrial switcher. The DRGW flatcar is 3' gauge - same as the Denver South Park & Pacific rolling stock at Como, Colorado

    • @Weimar893
      @Weimar893 3 місяці тому

      We are hoping to lay a quarter of mile of track over the original Main going east. We have obtained on a trade an original CRI&P semaphore. and are trying to get a GE 50-ton engine or a Witcomb 50 tonner which is what the Rock did use. The car went to Como as we were going to put a 3 rail operation like at Alamosa but that is kind of silly when our friends at Como can use it in a better way than we can. Great work by the Como people. THE PREMEIR OPERATION IN THE STATE!

  • @user-zo8nu8xk7z
    @user-zo8nu8xk7z Рік тому

    I have crocheted 3 trains for sale. Locomotive, box cars; Como spelled out.

  • @OfficalF.R.H.
    @OfficalF.R.H. Рік тому

    I am modeling my train layout after you guys

  • @brianfalzon6739
    @brianfalzon6739 Рік тому

    Congratulations

  • @candlewoodvalleyscenicrail2062

    I missed your July open roundhouse by just a few days as we stopped by a few days prior. Took a bunch of pictures through the fence and drove over the pass to Breckenridge. Hope to get there again in a few years when you are open. Everything is looking really good!

  • @korelzenga2305
    @korelzenga2305 Рік тому

    Great video James! Looking forward to seeing you again soon.

  • @asanewby4273
    @asanewby4273 Рік тому

    One of my favorite channels, y'all do such amazing work.

  • @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853

    The drone shots are awesome!

  • @slanderedstone
    @slanderedstone Рік тому

    Love seeing the progress of the work going on up there!

  • @ML_314
    @ML_314 Рік тому

    What a lovely video :)

  • @searchingforthecsnarrowgau8853

    Fantastic video! The drone work, especially the shots showing the grade and rock work were wonderful. Thanks for your work!

  • @littlewingpsc27
    @littlewingpsc27 Рік тому

    Have you ever estimated what it would cost to rebuild the wooden stalls of the roundhouse?

  • @littlewingpsc27
    @littlewingpsc27 Рік тому

    So the outer wood shell will just be cosmetic and the water will be stored in the plastic tanks? Is there a well underneath the center that supplies the water?

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      The tank staves will not be watertight. The original plans for the tank call for the usual wedge cutting of each stave. However the flat top tanks that C&S used actually had a vertical taper to each stave (with the top of the tank a slightly smaller diameter than the base.). Using plastic tanks inside will store the volume we need for occasional steamups (and not require that the tank be kept full to swell the staves tight enough to become water tight.). Water from a well on the roundhouse site is pumped up through the frost box in the center of the support columns.

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      Prototypical wooden railroad tanks required that the metal compression rings that held them tight enough to be watertight be adjusted for temperature. In our case that would include sub-zero to 80s.

  • @littlewingpsc27
    @littlewingpsc27 Рік тому

    Great to hear you have lots of volunteers to assist your efforts.

  • @littlewingpsc27
    @littlewingpsc27 Рік тому

    Cool that the band dress up in "railroad" attire. Is that their normal "uniform" or did they do this special for this event?

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      Many of the great railroads had their own brass band. The Denver Brass performers dress in costume for this event.

  • @littlewingpsc27
    @littlewingpsc27 Рік тому

    How many rivets on locomotive #4 and the tender? Any idea? Can't have a rivet video and not tell us how many there are......

  • @douglasstephens4628
    @douglasstephens4628 Рік тому

    Nice to see progress! DSP&P HS thank you!

  • @davidmunguia1047
    @davidmunguia1047 Рік тому

    Que lástima que lo tuvieran a la intemperie.

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 Рік тому

    I am a 73 year old life long rail enthusiast and have been involved with 5" and 2 1/2" scale ng steam for 50 years. While I deeply appreciate the efforts you are making, my only memory of Como was bitter cold even in summer. It will never ve a tourist destination.

  • @farmerdave7965
    @farmerdave7965 Рік тому

    I didn't get a chance to go this year.

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 Рік тому

    I visited Como in the 1970's and found it to be bitter cold and desolate. So the question is why do this?

    • @JamesMackayColorado
      @JamesMackayColorado Рік тому

      We need the water tank for our steam locomotive "Klondike Kate." We have built a lot of track as well.

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 Рік тому

    The piccolo part of Stars and Stripes on trumpet. It works!

  • @patmauro699
    @patmauro699 Рік тому

    Great video, showing what started it all in 1995, when we laid the track at Windy(not rocky) Point , and the restoration of the section house, which prompted the creation of the 1st RR day that year!

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 Рік тому

    I visited Como once long ago, sometime in the 1970's before any of this work started. It was a very cold day, the place seemed inhospitable to me.

  • @ML_314
    @ML_314 Рік тому

    That's some very beautiful landscape there, sir! :) Greeting from Austria! :)

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      Es freut mich zu wissen, dass es für Sie interessant war. How did you hear about us???

    • @ML_314
      @ML_314 Рік тому

      ​@@denversouthparkpacifichistoric Hey there :) Well, I think it all happend when I was looking for some kind of railroading game where you can drive a loco in first person and also do some shunting and track laying and so on. I always was a big fan of Sid Meyers Railroad Tycoon, but it lacked those features as it is a bird's eye view tycoon game... :) Then I found the game *Railroads online!* which was EXACTLY what I was looking for. It is in a pre-release-state but you can already play it. It's staged in an amazing fictive, mountainous area that instantly reminded me of the Rockies. That lead me to the whole "narrow-gauge in the US" thing and just by clicking this and that I ended up at your channel. After the first or second video I was looking up Como in google maps and thought "...what? Hartsel? Fariplay? SOUTH PARK? I know these places!" That is because I'm a very, very big fan of the TV series that is staged in your beautiful part of the world! :) Then the UA-camr by the name Hyce - who is now working in the colorado railroad museum - started his videos about that railroading game and he also told us a lot about all the narrow gauge operations that were going on in Colorado back in the days. And so now I'm here :) It's such a cool project you have there. I was already looking at the shop you have (dspphs.org) where one can buy calendars and other merch. But do you ship to Austria as well? :D Keep up the good work! It's so good to see people taking care of preserving history and teaching it to others. Kind regards from Austria.

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      @@ML_314 Note that the reply below is from Kor Elzenga. He lives in the Netherlands and routinely visits Como - for years!

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      @@ML_314 Just sent your comments to our board, including so that the merchandise people can let me know. about shipping to Austria.

    • @JamesMackayColorado
      @JamesMackayColorado Рік тому

      @@ML_314 On my personal channel I also have Denver and Rio Grande videos: ua-cam.com/video/-6k9-stNyLM/v-deo.html

  • @julianrihs6260
    @julianrihs6260 Рік тому

    Will you build your tracks up to Breckenridge? Greetings from Switzerland🚂🚂🚂

  • @TheHollyHobo
    @TheHollyHobo Рік тому

    ..ings from Germany, looking forward to be there next summer!

  • @TheHollyHobo
    @TheHollyHobo Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing, greet

  • @christome6014
    @christome6014 Рік тому

    What perfect shots! Really captured a fantastic day!

  • @christome6014
    @christome6014 Рік тому

    Great footage James thanks for what you do for the South Park Railroad!!

    • @denversouthparkpacifichistoric
      @denversouthparkpacifichistoric Рік тому

      In the five years I have been doing Como videos I have learned a LOT about video editing. The subject matter makes it fun! ;-)

  • @farmerdave7965
    @farmerdave7965 Рік тому

    I really like that portable saw mill !

  • @markschultz2304
    @markschultz2304 Рік тому

    A fun annual event made better with the Denver Brass and bagpipes make any event more enjoyable!