Details For Cover ID# 29389

[Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge Railroads] The Argentine Central Ry. Co. - Local Agents Office, Waldorf, Colorado "private" datestamp on picture post card showing the pavilion at Silver Plume, entered the mails at Silver Plume with their postmark of the next day tying a 1c Franklin.

The Argentine Central was a 3' narrow gauge tourist railway that connected Waldorf and Silver Plume. Construction began on August 1, 1905, and the line was opened to Waldorf a year later on August 1, 1906, a distance of about 6 miles. The 3' narrow gauge Colorado & Southern R.R. carried the card from Silver Plume down to Golden before transfer to a 4' 8" standard gauge railway for the trip to Denver.