Equipment
Speeder
The speeder was donated to us by Mike s Museum in Las Animas
County, it was brought to Calhan by John Ziegler, Bruce Yelen, Wayne Kemp.
Assisting were Cindi Ryan, and her sister and brother in law.
Rock Island Speeder
The Rock Island speeder that Al Rodi recently restored for the RMRHS has made it to the Calhan Depot. Story/Photos.
Semaphore
We are to be the recipient of a real early style
semaphore later in the fall. It will be used at Calhan (we already have a station
mounted semaphore that was the type used from the 1860s until the 1920s
for the Dumont Project). It came out of a railroad station in Northern Minnesota
that closed in the 1920s.
The paddle blade semaphore is the type of semaphore we are being given,
again courtesy of Mike s Museum, Las Animas County, Colorado. It is the same
style that can be found in use today (Springer, New Mexico, BNSF main line), but soon to disappear forever. We will need help on moving it to Calhan, and
reassembling it, after we deconstruct it for moving. Again, the help will be in
removing it from its pedestal, welding it back up when we get to the depot
and placing it on the apron at Calhan. We have the handles for it, and the rods
maybe be covered with dirt in front of the bay window. It can be made to
operate at the Calhan Depot as it once did.
October, 2023: Semaphore Signal Arrives at Calhan.
Passenger Coach
1905 Colorado and Southern first class coach.
It suffered considerable water damage from the
recent blizzard in March (2019). We need help this
summer to put a roof coating on the car.
We strongly urge that you visit the Forney Museum of Transportation and tell them you are a member of
our society and thank them for all the support they have provided our society.
Forneys donated the caboose and this coach to our society. So thank them for the great job they are doing in providing a glimpse of the history of transportation.
