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Hello to New Students and Goodbye to the Roundhouse

Golden Eye Candy – Patrick Klein – Summer 2023 – enlarge

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

Frank Hanou’s photos of the 2020 M-Climb – enlarge


7:30AM-12PM M Climb @ Mount Zion
Starting at 7:30 this morning, new Mines students will be climbing to the M on Mt Zion. They will carry with them a 10 pound rock from home, which they will add to the collection that make up the M. Then they will apply a new coat of whitewash to the emblem (and each other).


9:30-10:30AM Rooftop Yoga @ The Golden Mill


10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM-3PM Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library


10:30AM and 1:30PM Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1PM and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter


5:30-8PM The Mountain Within Gallery @ American Mountaineering Center

7PM Golden Ghosts and Spirits Tour
7:30PM Avenue Q: The Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse (beginning 8/11)

SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

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LIVE MUSIC

5-7PM Rachel Cole @ Coda Brewing
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom


5-7PM Wade Sutton @ Morris & Mae
5:30-8:30PM Riders of the Purple Goose @ Goosetown Station
6-9PM Josh Bierman @ Barrels and Bottles @ Camp George West
610PM Band of Brothers @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-9PM Spunj @ Over Yonder
6-10PM 2nd Time Around @ Wrigley’s


8-10PM Super Diamond – The Ultimate Neil Diamond Experience @ Buffalo Rose

9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

1882 Birdseye Map of Golden, showing the location of the roundhouse – enlarge


96 Years Ago
The August 18, 1927 Colorado Transcript announced that Golden’s roundhouse was being razed. This building had served as the maintenance hub for Colorado Central Railroad locomotives.

The Colorado Central served the mining towns of Central City, Blackhawk, Idaho Springs, and Georgetown. Its corporate headquarters and maintenance hub were in Golden, and the railroad was a major employer in this town. In addition to the roundhouse, there was a coach and paint shop where freight and passenger cars were serviced.

Golden Roundhouse – Dan Abbott Collection – note the smaller narrow gauge engine, second to left – enlarge


The Colorado Central used both narrow gauge and standard gauge trains, with the smaller narrow gauge equipment used on the winding mountain routes. The roundhouse was equipped to service either size of locomotive.

When mining slowed, so did the level of freight on the railroad. The Colorado Central went through ownership and name changes, eventually becoming part of the Colorado & Southern railroad. Maintenance work was moved to Denver, and the Golden roundhouse was no longer needed.

The top map is an excerpt from the 1878 Willits map of Golden, showing the roundhouse and other railroad facilities. The lower map uses a Google map to show where the roundhouse used to be. – enlarge

Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!

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