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Grand Junction, Colorado in the 1880s. The town of Grand Junction was founded on September 26, 1881, by the Grand Junction Town Company. The founder of the town, George A. Crawford, was a Civil War veteran and President of the Grand Junction Town Company. He was accompanied by William McGinley, J. Clayton Nichols, and four unidentified companions.
Grand Junction station is a train station in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, that is served by Amtrak's California Zephyr, which runs once daily between Chicago and Emeryville, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [Note 1] The station interior in June 2021. The station is adjacent to the original Denver and Rio Grande Depot.
The Colorado Midland Railway (reporting mark CM), [1] incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction.
The first (1881-1889) Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway built a narrow-gauge line from Ogden, Utah via Soldier Summit, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado. The railroad was reorganized as the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1889, as part of a finance plan to upgrade the line from narrow gauge to standard gauge, and built several branch lines in ...
The Little Book Cliff Railway (LBC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge that operated in Colorado, United States, from 1889 to 1925. The LBC was incorporated on September 11, 1889, by William Thomas Carpenter and several other prominent Grand Junction, Colorado , business men.
Rio Grande Junction Railway: Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway: CCD 1899 1920 N/A Colorado and Utah Railway: 1886 1892 Crystal River Railway: Colorado and Wyoming Railroad: CB&Q: 1887 1908 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway: UP: 1914 1924 Northern Colorado and Eastern Railroad
Ca. 1900 map of the Colorado Midland Railway (red), showing its connections to the Rio Grande Western Railway (black, left) and Colorado and Southern Railway (black, lower right) For the next ten years, the RGW operated as an independent standard gauge bridge line connecting Grand Junction to Salt Lake City and Ogden, with branches to sources ...
From 1887 to 1918, Colorado Midland Railroad operated rail service along a 222-mile line from Colorado City (now Old Colorado City), through Ute Pass and across the Continental Divide, to the coal-mining town of New Castle [2] and Grand Junction. It was the first standard gauge railroad through the Rocky Mountains. [3]