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Before it arrived at Guernsey - guess I'm posting these backwards - the Colorado & Wyoming caboose hop had left Hartville to pick up interchange from BN. The iron ore was trucked from the mine at Sunrise to Hartville, where the C&W took it a few miles through this rugged country to Burlington Northern. BN would, in turn, take the ore west from Guernsey to Wendover - just a trip through the Wendover Canyon and its three tunnels - and then head down the Colorado & Southern to Pueblo, Colorado. The Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill there would make use of that ore, served by the "middle division" of the C&W.
Main Street
Hartville, Missouri
Photo taken on August 16, 2023
The middle of Main Street. The heart of downtown Hartville around the town square on a beautiful summer afternoon.
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303 leads the 261 north past the upscale neighborhood at Congress Lake in Hartville on the afternoon of Dec. 10, 2017.
The gymnasium of the YMCA building built in 1917. It looks as if they are cleaning or fixing a few things.
Sunrise Mine, Sunrise, WY
Still working some graveyard shifts mixed in with day shifts so off of Flickr a lot. Missing you all!
In case you didn't hear, 2662 lead the 261 last Friday... it's the only train I've shot in ten days. Last shot from this chase.
That homemade caboose has to be a one-of-a-kind. The BN from Laurel via Casper curves in on the right as the Colorado & Wyoming ore delivery arrives at the BN yard from Hartville. This operation had less than two years to survive.
Quail Hollow Park, Hartville, Ohio. Actually I think water is supposed to be flowing from his mouth, since it appears to be part of a fountain.
Hartville, Wyoming is an incredibly small town - population 60. Just north of the Oregon Trail near Guernsey.
A mile or so south of town is Boot Hill Cemetery. From early on, this is where they buried those killed in gun fights and saloon brawls.
On the road leading to the cemetery is a smaller cemetery, but I can't find any information on it. The names I jotted down don't appear on the larger cemetery's records, including Little Benny Trahan.
I don't know why this entire cemetery is forgotten. It's not out of the way, it's not overgrown, it's plainly visible on the way to the main cemetery. There even seems to be some confusion over which cemetery is called Boot Hill and which is simply Hartville Cemetery.
These are the limitations of photographing places where you're not a local.
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'Nebula'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/16; 2sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Wyoming
July 2023
My long layovers in this division point west of Alliance on the "South Line" were rarely wasted. The "D-Bar-B" Hotel and the "Oregon Trail Restaurant" were much more agreable than the crew facilities in Edgemont or Ravenna, and the operators in the standard CB&Q two-story depot were friendly and helpful. This was before the coal trains started flowing off the Powder River Basin, so the South Line (the route from Alliance to Laurel via Casper instead of via Gillette and Sheridan) was pretty sleepy. However, the Colorado & Wyoming would come down from Hartville to exchange cars from their mining operation, and here is their GP7 (103) as it interchanges with BN SD9 (6176) in our yard. Interchange completed, it would head west behind the SD9 and curve to the right along the North Platter River, while the BN's "mainline" (in name only) would cross the North Platte on a massive steel and wooden bridge, curve about a mile into the first mile-long wood-lined tunnel, and disappear into Wendover Canyon. At the west end of the Canyon would be Wendover and its junction with the Colorado & Southern and it's mainline from Denver and (via the FW&D) and Texas. The operator would tell me if it was safe to walk across the bridge towards the tunnel, and if I was safe from missing a call!
Two longhood forward SD40-3s drag a good-size 262 south past Wingfoot Lake between Mogadore and Hartville on the evening of Nov. 21, 2017.
BN eastbound Laurel to Lincoln #178 is pulling up around the wye at the west end of the yard, passing the "west shack" that used to be THE yard office before all the coal trains started. The "Q" built it with their usual attention to solid construction and I'd hardly call it a shack, but by now the real yard office was perched on top of the portico of the two story Alliance Division offices, a position that afforded the Yardmaster a good look at the controlled (barely) chaos of his domain. Those ore hoppers most likely don't contain ore; they probably have ballast picked up at Guersey where a ballast pit was located. There was also a connection at this time with the Colorado & Wyoming at Guernsey, but the iron ore from the Hartville/Sunrise mine was always - in my observation - in standard hoppers, stained as red as the ballast from Guernsey was. Over those first few ore/ballast jennies is suspended the Q-style cantilever signal bridge that marked the junction of the "Billings main" via Edgemont, Gillette, and Sheridan, with the "south line" that went via Scottsbluff, Wendover and Wind River Canyons to Laurel. The U30c, SD45, and two U30c's are having a good tug on what is probably a good sized train to get it into the yard. The tail end of the train is passing the very beginnings of construction of a new "South Yard" to accomodate all the coal traffic while this originall yard will be relegated to manifest and whatever loaded coal trains need a brief servicing stop.
107 and 6352 lead the 262 south through Wingfoot Lake north of Hartville on the evening of 11/29/16.
Once the delivery is made to BN, the GP7 and its caboose make a light move back home to Hartville. I'm standing on the BN bridge over the North Platte River, having checked with the Guernsey operator at the depot that no trains were expected on it. The iron ore from the Sunrise mine will be put on a train that will head west out of Guernsey, through Wendover Canyon to the C&S connection at Wendover, and then down the Colorado & Southern to Pueblo, Colo., and the Colorado Fuel & Iron mill.
Earlier in the day that I took the pix at Wendover, actually after I had just driven from Alliance to Guernsey and worked the 2230 switch engine, I managed to capture the Colorado & Wyoming as they made the trip down from the Hartville Sunrise ore mine to pick up some cars for the mine to load. Squeeky clean GP7 #103 of this U.S. Steel owned company has a homemade caboose in tow soon after it left Hartville. I've posted pix of this railroad before, but this one didn't make the cut; Adobe "Lightroom" made it a lot more presentable. This was - yes, WAS - the northern division of this railroad's operations, as the more well known southern division served the steel mill at Pueblo, Colorado. I'm glad I put off much needed sleep for this chase as this operation was soon to come to a close. The smell of sagebrush in Spring was always worth putting off the sleep.
W&LE 6317, 6981, 6312, 6314, and 6315 lead a 32-car 262 south by Wingfoot Lake between Mogadore and Hartville on the evening of 9/20/16. The Goodyear blimp in the background had the logo turned toward me until just seconds before the train showed up.
I watched them switching around units and making consists in Brittain yard for a while... one consist they made had three tigers, and another consist had this mess. Three of the five units were blue at least, so it was still an interesting chase. The Cleveland Sub is now 10mph from Mogadore to the south side of Canton Jct, so it was a slow and steady chase. The line is still jointed rail from Mogadore to the north side of Canton.
Having picked up the train orders, the head end brakeman returns to the cab (not sure if a pot o' gold awaits him in there, but then again the engineer is probably hoggin' it!) The east leg of the wye connects just beyond the section shed; there was a couple of freights that used it to access Guernsey from Cheyenne. The Colorado & Wyoming had an active route from Guernsey to an ore mine at Hartville and interchanged with BN/C&S at Guernsey. There was also a stretch of ABS between here and Guernsey and the beckoning clear signal can be seen just to the right of the bottom of that second telegraph pole in front of the lead unit.
I seem to want to choose the more "challenging" (nice word?) slides to give the Lightroom treatment, so here's one for the Blue Hour fans, of which I'm one. BN - actually C&S - Train 142 awaits its departure from the yard one late evening as I while away the long layover before returning to my home terminal at Alliance, Nebraska. I chose to bid a "South Pool" turn during my non-promoted fireman status to immerse myself in traditional train order and dark territory railroading. Once the Orin Line was completed, coal trains would congest this sleepy yard and division point, and its character - little changed from CB&Q days - would change drastically. Once released, #142 would head west over the North Platte River, through the three tunnels of Wendover Canyon to Wendover, where the wye connected to the north end of the Colorado & Southern. Then 142 would turn south and head for Cheyenne and Denver. At this time the Colorado & Wyoming was bringing iron ore down into Guernsey from the mine at Sunrise/Hartville. This was the train that took that ore south, to eventually reach the mill that Colorado Fuel & Iron (the owners of the C&W) had at Pueblo. I'm wondering if those oxide-red hoppers on the right are part of its train, marked with CB&Q "EVERYWHERE WEST" in script on the side. They were used to haul sugar beets in the North Platte River valley east of here, and I don't doubt that they hauled CF&I ore as well. Now if I had just moved a little bit to the right to include that lettering! With a pair of U33c's, and SD40, SD9, and GP20 to haul this train, a heavy train could have been in the plan. It would make a fine sight in the remote and rugged country the C&S crossed to head south, but it would be at night and I'm sure I headed back to the "D-Bar-B" Hotel and the Oregon Trail cafe to await my fate on the Guernsey-Alliance local or Train 178.
Each year I look forward to the blooming of this beautiful tree. It's in an area that is rapidly developing and I fear it will be lost forever.
Four high hoods in different paint followed by three tigers made for an interesting consist on a beautiful day in March, 2018. Wheeling and Lake Erie train 262 has just passed through Hartville, Ohio and slowly makes its way toward Gambrinus Yard in Canton to drop off all their cars. They then traveled light power to Brewster.
Autumn transitions to winter.
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Quail Hollow State Park, Hartville, Ohio
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Day two of the trip involved some Wheeling & Lake Erie action around the Akron, Ohio area, hoping to chase train 262 down to Canton and Brewster. We were thrown a curveball and ended up with a northbound train instead, but it ended up working out well for us with some solid power too.
W&LE 261, a northbound Brewster to Akron, Ohio mixed freight has finished their work in Canton, and is seen here across the field at Smith Kramer Street NE in Hartville. A wild quartet of geeps, with WE GP35s 103 & 100 plus GP40-3 701 and GP9R 4602 effortlessly pull the 54-car train.
My notes show that I was rear brakeman on the local freight #23690 to Alliance, so I'm guessing that the yard switcher - SD9 6176 - could have just stepped aside after putting the finishing touches, including the "waycar", on the west end of our train. That former NP hopper on the right could be our train, but I'm thinking the boxcars are a more likely guess. The Colorado & Wyoming GP7 #103 and its homemade caboose has to head back home to Hartville before anything else takes place. They connected with the west end of the Guernsey yard and brought iron ore from the Sunrise mine down to the BN/C&S, for eventual delivery to Colorado Fuel & Iron in Pueblo, Colorado. Most likely that is what the hoppers on the right are for. I had few chances to catch this spiffy Geep and caboose on their rounds and I'm glad I was present for this one. One aspect of Guernsey that I did miss recording was the lighting of the kerosene switch lamps, which I recall seeing as it was done by one of the section hands one evening. Oh well...it was going to happen forever, wasn't it? The trouble is, I think I knew that it would not.
A view of the old Cope School, a one-room country school house. From what I was able to find, it was named for the people who donated the land for the school. The old tin roof is mostly gone from the far side, and if you view large, you can see the blue sky through the rafters. It is decaying fast and I predict it won't be around for too many more years. At least one old school house and one pretty, old church that I found on my travels have fallen down before I could go back and get photos of them. This is located in rural Wright County Missouri, several miles northeast of Hartville.
Update: I drove by Cope school today, May 18, 2013, and the old school house is gone, tumbled down into a pile of boards. So much of the roof tin was gone that it just couldn't stay standing.
Better with B l a c k M a g i c
The light fades as the world's saturation drains, slowly and then all at once. Fire falls in every direction as sunset wraps the whole horizon. Platinum yields to ethereal indigo and the great blackness overwhelms the Sun. Baily's beads flare along the moon's limb as the Sun's dying light escapes through craters and canyons. A diamond ring forms directly overhead and then vanishes. Its corona dances for millions of miles, the light traveling further still to obliterate silence, reason, and control. The hillside erupts in screams, cheers, and joy. Darkness at noon and nothing is the same.
10 miles North of Hartville, Wyoming
11:47 am August 21, 2017
Sony a99
Minolta 210mm
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