Breckenridge, CO: Aban/UP/Colorado & Southern/Denver & South Park & Pacific Depot

(Satellite, it is now a parking lot.)

I've been skipping depots in Colorado, but when I saw Denver, South Park & Pacific in the description, I went for it. See Como, CO, as to why DSP&P is of interest to me.

Richard Crabtree posted three images with the comment:

Here we are at the Colorado & Southern Depot in Breckenridge, Colorado

The Denver & South Park & Pacific came to Breckenridge, Colorado in August of 1882. Over the course of several years the name of line changed from the DSP&P to the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison and finally to the Colorado & Southern. It would be the the C&S that would end service here in 1937.

Photo 1) Colorado & Southern Depot in Breckenridge, Colorado around 1910.

Photo 2) 1914 Sanborn Map of Breckenridge, Colorado L.O.C.

Photo 3) Current view ~ google maps

Terri Reid: I wondered where the acreage for the parking lots came from..

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1989 Leadville Quad @ 125,000

I knew that the DSP&P went over the mountain from Como into the Colorado River drainage basin. Now I better understand how it did that. (The Como area is drained by the Tarryall Creek, which joins the South Platte River. But that is a very circuitous route. The DSP&P used Turkey Creek to get from Denver to South Park.)

1938 Mount Lincoln and 1937 Como Quad @ 62,500