Pictures of Bridges and Trestles of the Colorado & Southern
Compiled by Donald Ray Burger
Attorney at Law

Arvada
NGCSP page 188

Beaver Brook
NGCSP page 45

Bordeas Pass
SPL page 126

Turntable at Black Hawk and Central City
CSng page 22

Black Hawk: Trestle on Switchback
NGCSP page 67

Blue Ridge near Breckenridge
CSng page 181

Cascades
SPL page 46

Chatfields
CSng page 160
SPL pages 197, 247

Clear Creek
GL page 105

Deansbury-Second Bridge
SPL pages 29, 233, 267

Elk Creek
CSng pages 41, 44, 45

Empire

Elk Creek, Second Bridge
NGCSP pages 27, 30
CSng page 152

Floyd Hill
CSng pages 51, 73
NGCSP page 193

Forks Creek
CSng page 47
NGCSP pages 40, 126, 181

Fremont Pass
CSng page 15

Georgetown Loop High Bridge
CSng pages 26, 65, 66, 67
GL pages 19, 28, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 48, 49 , 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 111, 112, 133, 136, 137, 151, 213, 215, 217, 223, 224, 225, 227, 230, 235, 248
COG pages 131, 132-133, 134
UCC pages 202, 203, 204, 205, 208, 211
NGCSP pges 81, 84, 85, 87, 99, 101, 122, 130, 131, 132, 137, 186, 187, 201, 221

Georgetwon Loop: Pin Trusse Bridge:
UCC page 204

Georgetown Loop: Bridge at upper end
NGCSP page 118

Gold Pan Trestle at Boreas Pass
CSng page 179
SPL page 237

Huntsman's Bridge
NGCSP page 22

Huntsman Ranch Bridge
NGCSP page 28

Idaho Springs
CSng page 75

Lawson
NGCSP page 184

Leadville
SPL page 63

Mountain City bridge
NGCSP page 68

Mountain City Trestle
CSng page 24
NGCSP page 105

Platte Canyon
CSng page 151
SPL page 28
COG page 284

Rainbow Falls, Chalk Creek
SPL page 47

Running Lode Gulch
NGCSP page 66

Silica Branch
CSng page 164
SPL page 204

Silver Plume
CSng page 21
GL page 186 (turntable bridge)
GL page 139 (Second Bridge)
GL page 50

Unknown Location
CSng page 157
GL page 141
COG page 134: (short bridge on CCRR-excellent view of stoneworks.
NGCSP page 126

Abbreviations:

CSng = C & S ng (Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge) by Mallory Hope Ferrell. Pruett Publishing Company. 1981. First Edition, First printing.

CCGC = Central City and Gilpin County (Then and Now). by Robert L. Brown. The Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1994.

COG = Colorado on Glass: Colorado's First Half Century as Seen by the Camera, by Terry Wm. Mangan. Sundance Limited. 1975. Hardback.

GL = Georgetown and the Loop, by P.R. "Bob" Griswold, Richard H. Kindig and Cynthia Trombly. Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. 1988. First Edition, 2d printing.

NGCSP = Narrow Gauge to Central and Silver Plume: Route of the Famed Georgetown Loop. (Colorado Rail Annual Number 10) by Cornelius W. Hauck, The Colorado Railroad Museum, 1972. 4th printing.

SPL =The South Park Line: A Concise History, (Colorado Rail Annual Number 12) by Gordon S. Chappell, Robert W. Richardson and Cornelius W. Hauck, The Colorado Railroad Museum, 1974. First Edition.

UCC = Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge (Modeling the Colorado & Southern), by Harry W. Brunk. Benchmark Publications Ltd. 1990. 2d printing.

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