19.06.2010
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
09.06.2010
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
29.05.2010
Yet another article about the area, titled Cripple
Creek Operations, transcribed from a magazine called Modern
Machinery, in an issue from November 1900.
27.05.2010
Added another page with an article called Electric
Power in Cripple Creek District, transcribed from a
magazine called Modern Machinery, this was the foregoing
issue to the one below, July 1900.
26.05.2010
Added page with an article about the Pike's
Peak Power Company, also transcribed from a magazine called Modern
Machinery, in an issue from June 1900. To be found under the Why
(History) button on your left.
24.05.2010
* Added a new part under my About(Home) heading called Area,
dealing with articles talking about the area it self that I've
used part of, or whole of to share what has been written of the
area and which has been transcribed into text. Info there can so
far it can only be found under the Why
(History) button on your left.
* Also added page with an article called Electric
Power in Cripple Creek District, transcribed from a
magazine called Modern Machinery, in an issue from August
1900.
23.05.2010
Added a new page with a description of a trip
on the Short Line found in a magazine called Railway and
Locomotive Engineering, in an issue from July 1903.
28.04.2010
Added a new page under the empty page about Cripple Creek townsite.
This new page is a article about the Butte
Concert Hall soon to be opened, and is from a February 1896
newspaper.
27.04.2010
Added a new page under a empty new page about Cripple Creek
townsite. This new page is a article about the soon to be built National
Hotel and is from a February 1896 newspaper.
26.04.2010
Added a new page under the Mining part, used to add in smaller
articles found from various sources in a broader perspective,
for now only holding some 1896 info regarding tunnel
mines in the District.
02.04.2010
Another updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from Engineering and Mining Journal November 4,
1905, this is a 4 page
article about the proposed new drainage tunnel - later known as the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, made as a
pdf file.
20.03.2010
Added info - such as a list of known to me photo's, News and small
articles about the Lee-Isabelle
Mine.
16.03.2010
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
15.03.2010
* Made a proof of concept page under the Last
Dollar Mine pages showing the known (to me right now) pictures
showing this mine, taken from my own collection. To be found under
the List of known pictures
*
Made a proof of concept page under the Last
Dollar Mine pages showing news/tidbits of info that I been
collecting from various sources, taken from my own collection. To be found under
the More
detailed info page as News from the mine.
13.03.2010
Added a new page with an article about the Last
Dollar Mine, to be found under the More
detailed info page as Article - 1903 text.
12.03.2010
Added two more pages! One is a description of a trip on the Florence
& Cripple Creek and the other is about the Midland
Terminal.
11.03.2010
Added two new pages! They both relates to the Short Line with lot
superlatives of words to describe the railroad! One is here,
and the other is here
- the last one called a woman's impression making it a little
special. 
05.10.2009
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with another folder about the Midland Terminal called the Cripple Creek via the Historic Ute Indian Trail Route M.T. Ry.
11.09.2009
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
10.09.2009
* Included some very long overdue links to my old links
page - related to the City of
Gold, Victor, Colorado!
* Also updated my news with some from Victor and about a live
auction to take place this weekend, the 12th of September
(Saturday). To be found on the scrolling top part of the front/index
page.
11.08.2009
Added a new page with some text commercial for the Golden
Circle Railroad found in a booklet from 1902
08.08.2009
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
06.08.2009
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
18.07.2009
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
20.05.2009
More news from the District Museum, about a Museum event already
now on Friday, May 22. As always, to be found as a small scroller
on my front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
26.04.2009
Added a new Newsflash from the Cripple
Creek Museum! I've posted it in the scrolling top part of the front/index
page (and of course, it can also be found here).
11.04.2009
Restructured the dated rail info page by adding a note icon
instead of having the extra info as small text. Hopefully it works
OK by having the info appear either at the bottom right or the
upper right.
09.04.2009
A little restructure of the newsflash item on my front page, using
a scrolling script to show the whole text.
Updated the news with a "please help" news note I got
from the District regarding the Old Homestead House Museum.
27.03.2009
Finally an update to my Library/Scanned Items
page again with another old booklet about the Short
Line Trip.
01.03.2009
Another newsflash from the Cripple Creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here).
11.01.2009
Been adding some info related to one of the first mines in the
District, but which never turned out great - the Blue
Bell in Squaw Gulch. Thanks to my friend, George, for the
inspiration to dig a little!
27.12.2008
Another newsflash from the Cripple Creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here).
14.12.2008
Yet another update to my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from Mines and Minerals April 1909. This nearly 5 page
article updates you about the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, made as a
pdf file.
13.12.2008
Yet another update to my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from Engineering & Mining Journal October
3rd, 1903. This one deals with new rock-handling at the Portland
Mine, made as a
pdf file.
12.12.2008
I've added two more articles scanned from Mines and Minerals
to my Library/Scanned Items
page, 1 being from April
& May 1908 dealing with the Cyaniding of Cripple Creek
ores, the other from May
1908 talking about how Cripple Creek is rejuvenated.
05.12.2008
Another updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from Mines and Minerals July 1907, this is a 1,5 page
article about the start of the Roosevelt Drainage Tunnel, made as a
pdf file.
03.12.2008
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from Mines and Minerals August 1898, this is a 2 page
article mention new stuff happening around the Cripple Creek District, made as a
pdf file.
02.12.2008
*
Another newsflash from the Cripple Creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here).
* Also added a tiny bit of info to my mine/mill info pages -> Lee/Isabella
Mine
14.09.2008
Added some more info to my mine/mill info pages, this time a little about the
Monument Mine.
09.09.2008
Added some info to my mine/mill info pages, a little about the Dead
Pine mine, and some to the Carbonate
Queen mine pages. This is a slow work in progress, most of
those pages have no info in it whatsoever.
10.08.2008
Another newsflash from the Cripple Creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here).
26.07.2008
Made my self a couple of new pages:
* A very simple page
as a start for some links to articles from old newspapers
regarding railroad lines in the District.
* A page dealing with some info about a F&CC
stunt in 1898.
* A page dealing with the hopes and ideas behind the Electric
Railroad system the District was to have.
21.07.2008
Yet another update to the Rail
Dates page of mine, taking it up to 1948 and the abandonment
of the MT and thus the goodbye to the last railroad into the
District for good. As before, it became more and more depressing
to type in due to the track of the railroads going away into
history for good...
18.07.2008
Keep on updated an old page of mine, Rail
Dates with more info taking it up to 1923. It is becoming more
and more depressing due to the track of the railroads going away
into history for good...
16.07.2008
* Posted another newsflash from the Cripple creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here).
* Updated a old page of mine, Rail
Dates with more info taking it up to 1912.
12.06.2008
Another newsflash from the Cripple creek Museum! As usually, posted
a piece on my front page
(rest is here). Oh I so wish I could be there!
05.06.2008
Posted on my front page a piece of a newsflash
(rest is here) I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum
this morning. Oh I so wish I could be there!
10.05.2008
Posted on my front page a piece of a newsflash
(rest is here) I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum
this evening.
09.03.2008
Posted on my front page a piece of a newsflash
(rest is here) I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum
this evening.
19.02.2008
Added a 1899 list of
producing mines from that year.
05.01.2008
Restructured some of my pages.
01.09.2007
Posted on my front page a newsflash I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum
this morning.
14.08.2007
Updated some pages related to the 1902 mining map I have - mostly
a part about the Bolivia
Mine, with a link to my model page of the same mine.
29.06.2007
Posted on my front page a newsflash I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum
this morning.
11.05.2007
Posted on my front page a newsflash I got from the
Cripple Creek Museum - sorry for the delay in posting.
01.01.2007
*
Updated my page about the Gold Fields of Cripple Creek
booklet to show the whole booklet.
*
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with another old folder about the Cripple
Creek District.
*
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with another folder about the Cripple
Creek District.
30.12.2006
Restructured some of my pages.
29.12.2006
* Remade my front page to a much simpler
page.
*
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a Postcards
album
* Re-written some of "My Reason"
page, added in the text from my old front page as extra background
info.
28.12.2006
* Renamed my Where page to Towns
as that is more what that page holds of text. :-)
* Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a postcard folder related to the Corley
Mountain Highway. (today's Gold Camp Road - and former grade
of the Short Line)
27.12.2006
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a new Midland
Terminal folder from my collection, similar to another I have
- called "A Chain of Gold Cities in the Cripple Creek District"
(dated about 1905)
25.11.2006
Hardly any news, some tidbits of news for The
Bolivia mine.
07.10.2006
Not much, I've added tidbits of news about two mines; The
Bolivia, and the Londonderry.
06.06.2006
Added a donation page for those who
might feel my site was missing such a button/page. :-)
02.06.2006
Added a picture and a tiny bit of info to my page about the Economic
Mill and the electric train that served the mill.
02.05.2006
Looks like I was able to spend some time with my website, been
trying to get a better standard for some things I want to present
in the future, but lack of knowledge about web design and how to
make things I want work in the real life keeps me from making it
as good as I want.
But, I try my best, and today I been rearranging some pages and
adding cross over links and so on.
01.05.2006
Updated my page about the Londonderry
Mine with two pictures from the USGS.
15.02.2006
Some rewriting of info in my "My
Reason" page about why I love this area around Pikes Peak.
Thanks to a visitor/reader for correcting me on a few points, and
giving me additional info!
03.02.2006
*
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a postcard folder which relates to the Seven Falls
& South Cheyenne Canon.
* Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a postcard folder which relates to the Colorado
Midland.
02.02.2006
* Added another scan from my collection, an article called In the Cripple Creek Goldfields
that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1896.
* Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a folder which again relates to The Cripple Creek Trip.
* Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a folder which relates to The Corley Mountain Highway.
01.02.2006
Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a folder which again relates to the Short
Line Trip.
30.01.2006
Updates to my Downloads
page:
-> Added a direct link to download the Bolivia Mine for those with TRS2004/TRS2006
-> Added a direct link to download the Great Central M&M
Co. Mine for those with TRS2004/TRS2006
28.01.2006
Another Mine -
Great Central Mining & Milling Co. Mine - has seen
the daylight... LOL
22.01.2006
* Updated the El
Paso Reduction Mill page with a bit of information found.
* Updated the Economic
Mill page with some information found.
* Updated the Bolivia Mine
page with information found.
21.01.2006
Another Mine - the
Bolivia - has seen
the daylight... LOL
14.01.2006
No update really, just mention on my Economic Mill page that I
think I have dated Prince Hohenlohe's Colorado trip to be the
summer of 1904. Mostly wrote something to fix a messed up website.
13.12.2005
Made a new page under my projects heading - so far it is only for
info sharing. This one deals with the El
Paso Reduction Mill in Florence, info from an 1898 article I
bought of ebay. More info always wished for...
10.12.2005
* Updated my Library/Scanned Items
page with a scanned
article from a 1899 magazine dealing with the use of
Electricity for the mines in the Cripple Creek District, made as a
pdf file.
* Also uploaded a newer (1913) article
talking about how Leasing and Low-grade milling have affected
the District. Also as a pdf file.
05.11.2005
Added a picture
of an electric engine and cars with a Prince Hohenlohe &
party showing to my Economic
Mill project page.
01.11.2005
Ego trip time... I made a direct link to a page/part of my
site that is one of those modern (for me at least LOL) Blog pages
- this is my own by the way. LOL You find it in upper left
corner, called just Blog, Ain't I something? LOL
31.10.2005
Long time, no see... Finally got around to scan and upload another
folder of mine, very similar to a folder already online,
but... LOL Need to get around scanning more, as yes, I do have
more... ;-)
15.09.2005
Added a new project, a generic little
headframe one based on drawing from 1903.
12.09.2005
* A slight updated info in my Mountain
Boy Mine page as the mine is now finished.
* Added a direct link to download it for those with TRS2004/TRS2006
to my Downloads page.
29.08.2005
* Added a claim
map to the Mountain Boy page, not related to the mine it self
but helps show the location of the mine.
* Restructured/added 1 new pdf file to my scanned item page - this
holds a 1902 map of the
District that can be used to search for mines & mills.
28.08.2005
Another small update to the Mountain Boy, a newer picture from TOE
and 1 from Trainz it self + some info that might help explain the
look of it.
25.08.2005
Updated the "Mountain
Boy" project page with two model pictures and some
tidbits of information found.
24.08.2005
Added a help page
related gmax as a resource for a friend of mine. This one
deals with adding a "shadow mesh" to a structure instead
of painting in the shadow.
20.08.2005
Added another scanned folder, this is related to the Colorado
Springs area.
19.08.2005
I think I've stepped into the modern world again for a moment,
looks like my host have given me a new toy to use - http://blog.cripplecreekrailroads.com/
:-)
18.08.2005
Added a new project, a Sampler in Cripple Creek called the Cripple
Creek Sampling & Ore Company.
30.07.2005
Updated my page with the index list
from Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - you find Cripple
Creek 1900 & Cripple
Creek 1908 there now.
23.07.2005
* Restructured and added a picture to the About
Me page.
* Tried to clean up and make more uniform my whole web site.
* Restructured my Projects
page
* Added a new
project (Mountain Boy), but only in the "thinking
stage" yet...
* Added a scan from my collection, an article
from 1894 that appeared in Harper's Weekly
31.05.2005
Hi, guess what, there are actually still life at this site! :-)
* Restructured my library page a little.
* Added a couple more scanned
folders/brochures related to the area of my interest.
28.04.2005
* Well, I did one thing, I added some tidbit of info to a hidden page (yet
to get permission to show it) remade my "downloads"
page under Trainz to just link to 2 Cripple Creek based Trainz models on
the Auran download station (DLS) for those visiting this page and have
Trainz and not seen them on the DLS before...
* Not a big update, just added a file to my library listing that is a pdf
scanned from an old mining journal called "The Engineering and Mining
Journal", from march 7, 1903. Only link to it so far is here,
and the 6 pages long article is about head frames in the Cripple Creek
District.
Other then that there are no new stuff, I'm way to busy with life and
other commitments to spend time on either my webpage or my project :-(
06.03.2005
* Another update on my Cripple Creek/Pike's Peak area booklist
- it should be pretty much up to date now when it comes to the books I
have.
* Also made another list, this is a grouped by category
list over all known (to me) books/pamphlets and so on for the Pike's
Peak Region (related to my Cripple Creek project) that I made special for
the Yahoo group a friend started, a group called CrippleCreekRailroads
(no connection to me other then that I'm a member!)
05.03.2005
An long overdue update over my Cripple Creek related booklist
(still have at least 10 more items to put in so still not up to date..)
25.02.2005
Updated and rearranged a little the rail dates page,
now it is up to the start of 1896.
24.02.2005
Added a screenshot page of some of the mines
& mills I have been working on from time to time that is not
specific to the Cripple Creek District - found under Workshop in the
Trainz page.
21.02.2005
Updated the rail dates page up to start
1892 - got tired so put it aside...
20.02.2005
* Updated a page about a small mine called Londonderry - but due to some
uncertainties I can't link to it yet. But mine is mostly done, just a few
small adjustments.
* Updated my Mine & Mill
list with the fact that Londonderry is under work...
02.02.2005
Started on a new page with dated info
about all the rail related stuff to the
area I'm interested in.
01.02.2005
Made a new page called Compare Pictures,
or just Compare For the moment just a Panorama shot of Goldfield is at
that page.
15.01.2005
Updated the Cripple Creek
postcard page with 3 new pictures from the December 2004 trip.
24.12.2004
Made 2 postcard sites - One from the Cripple
Creek area and one from the Central
City area.
03.12.2004
Added half of a booklet
from 1901 to the library page - Gold
Fields of Cripple Creek
26.11.2004
Made a page about my next mining project, the Londonderry
23.11.2004
Started on a new page with the index list
from Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps relating to my area of interest.
07.11.2004
* Updated the book "History
of Cripple Creek" page with some better scans - more will come
later - and a front/end paper scan.
* Also made a "Help wanted" page
with some info about how YOU might help me. :-)
* Tried to add a guest book, not sure how it will work out. :-)
06.11.2004
* Used some hours to OCR
a book I have, and put it up under the Library
listing.
* Also used a list in there to make a list over all producing
mines in 1896.
* And, a long overdue over my Cripple Creek related booklist
(still have at least 10 more items to put in so still not up to date..)
18.10.2004
Updated the Favorite
Mine page with the 3 last screenshots from inside Trainz. Model is
now finished.
16.10.2004
Added some screenshots of the model to the Favorite
Mine page. Also updated the page with some info about the mine and company behind it.
15.10.2004
* A new mine is under work, this time the Favorite
Mine.
* Also updated the mine
& mills 1902 list
26.09.2004
Update on the
Economic Mill project page - just a few lines of text and four screenshots.
18.09.2004
Added a animated gif on the
Gold Coin page.
17.09.2004
Added some
pictures/screenshots to the Gold Coin page.
16.09.2004
New page, new
project! Another mine is started, this time it's the Gold Coin in
downtown Victor!
11.09.2004
Added some text,
3 pictures and two animated gifs to my "Trammer" page - it
now have animated wheels!
04.09.2004
Update on the
Economic Mill project page - some text and much screenshots of my model of
it + 2 of the real thing for comparison!
06.08.2004
Update on the
Economic Mill project page - some text and four screenshots of my model of
it!
27.07.2004
Update
of the Gold King project page. Four pictures and some text. Also redid the
page a little and fixed some links on my pages.
20.07.2004
Short text and 1 picture update
of the Gold King project page.
18.07.2004
Added 6
pictures to the ore car project page, and a short text update -
"painting" started.
16.07.2004
New page, new
project! A small page about a small but important car - a 18" ore
car to haul ore out!
12.07.2004
* Another update
this evening with pictures from a test run in Trainz.
* Added 6
pictures and some text to the page about the little Mancha 1,5ton
trammer - it's painted now!
11.07.2004
* Reworked my page a little - sorry for those who might have bookmarked my
page. The noname mine & mill side is now under Virtual
(Trainz)->Workshop, as it don't belong under projects not being Cripple
Creek related.
* Also put up a new page under
Workshop about my latest - this weekend -
project, a 18" gauge locomotive for the mines!
07.07.2004
Added another 6
pictures, showing some 18" gauge track added to the noname mine
& mill.
06.05.2004
Added 2 pictures of a horse
dragging a mine car at the noname mine & mill side.
05.07.2004
A few (9) pictures showing
a mine train at the noname mine/mill I've been working on.
03.07.2004
Just a little page about something non Cripple Creek related - a mine/mill
just for my fantasy.
26.06.2004
Short 1 picture update
of the Gold King project page.
24.06.2004
I'm home again, yesterday in fact! Trip was okay, Cripple Creek mostly
okay, but 4 nights was just way to short to be able to do all I wanted!
So, here's a page with a few lines about
that trip, and, I've updated the Where page
with a little longer list over the towns/settlements.
08.06.2004
* A "new" picture book added - this also featuring
the Short Line.
* This is last update for at least 2 weeks as I'm going on a vacation to
COLORADO!! And, it includes a weekend in Cripple Creek - YEAH!! J
07.06.2004
Added a screenshot
page taken in January 2004 of a Trainz trip with F&CC between Victor
and Wilbur Loop.
26.05.2004
A list over the mines
& mills of ca 1902
24.05.2004
A short update to the Gold King
Mine projects page.
23.05.2004
A quick "throw together" page about the latest Cripple Creek
model - the Gold King Mine
in Poverty Gulch.
23.04.2004
* Made a short page on the Midland
Terminal, text from the MT folder uploaded yesterday.
* Updated my book list.
22.04.2004
* Made a new page showing
one of the old picture books/brochures/booklets I have in my collection,
this one called "O'er
Canon and Grag To the Land of Gold" (Series3), from 1904.
* Also made one featuring
a trip up Ute Pass along the Midland Terminal, date unknown.
* And, another featuring
the Short Line trip up to Cripple Creek, date unknown.
13.04.2004
Started to redesign my pages for the umpteen time.
16.03.2004
Just got my self my own domain, and some web space. J
Cool! Hope to make this page into some good for others too.
