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Chivington is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Colorado, United States. [1] The Chivington post office operated from October 24, 1887, until January 1, 1991. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The U.S. Post Office at Eads ( ZIP Code 81036) now serves Chivington postal addresses.
Colorado Midland Railroad: Colorado Midland Railway: 1883 1893 Colorado Midland Railroad: Colorado and New Mexico Railroad: ATSF: 1873 1875 Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad: Colorado Northern Railway: CB&Q: 1883 1884 Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad: Colorado and Northwestern Railroad: 1904 1909 Denver, Boulder and Western Railroad ...
Eads has been the seat of Kiowa County since 1901. [3] Eads was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis in 1874 and went on to design and build the system of levees on the Mississippi Delta which made the river ...
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad No. 491 is a 2-8-2 "Mikado" type narrow-gauge steam locomotive built by the D&RGW themselves at their Burnham Railroad shops. It was placed on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum in 2000. It was then restored to operating condition in August 2014. No. 491 is still currently operational at the museum as ...
Colorado Pacific Railroad in Sheridan Lake. Sheridan Lake is located in eastern Kiowa County at (38.468274, -102.293155 U.S. Route 385 passes through the town, leading north 27 miles (43 km) to Cheyenne Wells and south 28 miles (45 km) to Granada.
Located in Central Pennsylvania, the East Broad Top Railroad offers nostalgic one-hour fall foliage train excursions that are the perfect length if you're vacationing with toddlers or grade-school ...
Kiowa is located in western Elbert County at (39.344207, −104.462714), [11] on the east side of Kiowa Creek, a north-flowing tributary of the South Platte Colorado State Highway 86 passes through the town, leading east 44 miles (71 km) to Limon and west 23 miles (37 km) to Castle Rock.
A train in Sheridan Lake, CO. The line was constructed in the late 1880s by the Missouri Pacific Railroad as part of its mainline between Pueblo and Kansas City. As a condition of the 1982 Missouri Pacific - Union Pacific merger, the Denver & Rio Grande Western got trackage rights over this line. The D&RGW merged with the Southern Pacific in ...