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2. Pikes Peak Cog Railway - Wikipedia

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   Normal trains can not retain traction on the rails at grades steeper than 10%, so the railway would need to use a cog and rack system to help pull trains up the mountain and control the speed of the descent. [4] Pikes Peak Cog Railway locomotive and car, circa 1900

3. Colorado Joint Line - Wikipedia

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   The BNSF, which merged the AT&SF and the Burlington Northern in 1996, designates the route as their Pikes Peak Subdivision. [2] Common traffic over the line largely consists of unit coal trains originating from the Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming , however manifest trains are very common as well, and intermodal ...

4. Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway - Wikipedia

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   The new railroad was able to force freight rates downward accelerating production. At peak capacity, the Midland Terminal Railway operated ten trains a day. One train carried parlor cars and sleepers and offered champagne dinners on overnight excursions from Denver. Freight cars hauled coal, lumber, explosives, machinery, fruit and other luxuries.

5. Mining in Colorado Springs, Colorado - Wikipedia

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   By 1922, there were nine active coal mines, Pikeview, Keystone, City #1 and #2, Old Patterson, Danville, Cottonwood, Altitude, and Black Mariah. That year, workers of the Pikes Peak Coal Company (owner of Pikeview mines) complained of working conditions, particularly the smoke generated by firing shots to clear the mines.

6. List of preserved locomotives in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway No. 1: Steam 0-4-2 cog 1890 Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Originally named "John Hulbert"; rebuilt as a Vauclain compound and numbered #1 in 1893; operated on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway from 1891 into the 1960s. CO-13 Rio Grande Southern No. 20: Steam 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" 1899 built

7. Should You Jump on the Coal Train? - AOL

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8. Semi-truck driver dies in Colorado coal train derailment

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   At least ten coal train cars reportedly slid off the tracks and over the side of a bridge Semi-truck driver dies in Colorado coal train derailment Skip to main content

9. Colorado train derails, spilling train cars and coal onto a ...

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   A train derailment and bridge collapse Sunday spewed coal and mangled train cars across a highway near Pueblo, Colorado, trapping a semi-truck driver beneath the wreckage, the Colorado State ...