Colorado and Southern trains served Nathrop and the Western Slope via the Alpine Tunnel after the demise of the storied Denver, South Park and Pacific about 1899. The C & S struggled financially as did its predecessor, finally abandoning the run to Gunnison in 1910 with closure of the Tunnel. The line from Buena Vista to Hancock was abandoned in 1924. (1)
Maud Perschbacher dates this picture as taken in July or August, 1910 at the Alma Station. She identified the people from left to right as: a blind man named Redman, depot agent John Geyer and his wife, fireman Bill Cantonwine, engineer Bill Gallagher and his wife, conductor Jack Harris and his wife, Maud (Matthews) Pershcbacher holding her son, William Earnest Perschbacher (aged 3 months), John Raymond Perschbacher (son of Joseph and Maud), brakeman Joseph T. Perschbacher and Leonard Perschbacher (son of Joseph and Maud).
Leonard Perschbacher Collection.
