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The Switzerland Trail is the site of a historic 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad line that was operated at different times by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railway, the Colorado and Northwestern Railroad, and the Denver, Boulder, and Western Railroad around the turn of the 20th century in the Colorado front range mining area near ...
D&RG 287, at Cimarron, CO in 1885. This photo shows what D&RG 278 looked like originally, with a diamond stack, box headlight, trim on the domes, and a wooden pilot (cowcatcher). D&RG "Standard Consolidation Engine" - 1881. A "consolidation" is a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870, by General William Jackson Palmer (1836–1909), and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new 3 ft (914 mm) railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated 875 miles (1,408 km) south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the ...
Denver and Intermountain Number 25 is an interurban car built by the Woeber Car Company in Denver. It entered service in 1911 and was retired in 1950 with the end of streetcar operations in Denver. [3] The car was purchased by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club for $150 ($1900 adjusted for inflation) and continued to be used for excursions until ...
Colorado Eastern Railway: Denver Railway: DRWY 1989 1993 Denver Rock Island Railroad: Denver and Boulder Valley Railroad: UP: 1870 1898 Union Pacific Railroad: Denver, Boulder and Western Railroad: 1909 1919 N/A Denver Circle Railroad: ATSF: 1880 1886 Denver and Santa Fe Railway: Denver, Clear Creek and Western Railway: DRGW: 1888 1899 Denver ...
The Colorado and Southern 3-ft-gauge lines were formed in 1898 from the Colorado Central and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroads.The narrow gauge operations had four distinct portions: the Platte Canyon Line from Denver to Como, the Gunnison Line from Como to Gunnison via Alpine Tunnel, Highline between Como and Leadville, and the Clear Creek rail line from Denver to Silver Plume.
Network Rail has applied for permission to convert the York Water Tower, built in 1839, into a base for the York Railway Institute band. The Grade-II listed building, which has a 5,000-gallon ...
Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway [2] Denver and Intermountain Railroad [2] 1909 1950 Largely rehabilitated as the Regional Transportation District W Line light rail in the 2010s Denver and Interurban Railroad [2] 1908 1926 Denver and South Platte Railway [1] Durango Railway and Realty Company [2] Grand River Valley Railroad [2]