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Gold Camp Road follows the former railroad from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek called the "Short Line". In the 1920s the railroad was converted to a car toll road, eventually becoming a free public road. In 1988, tunnel #3 collapsed and was never repaired.
The railway had abandoned the Taylor Switchback to the Independence Mine in 1930 and in 1948 a total of 64.5 miles (103.8 km) of track from Old Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, within the Cripple Creek mining district, and the spur in Old Colorado City to the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company. [4] [c]
US 24 east – Colorado Springs: Eastern end of US 24 overlap: Douglas: Deckers: 100.036: 160.992: CR 75 (Y Camp Road) / CR 126 to US 285 – Pine Grove: North end state maintenance: South Platte River: 100.3: 161.4: Bridge: Jefferson: No major junctions: South Platte River: 105.1: 169.1: Bridge: Douglas 117.349: 188.855: Rampart Range Road ...
Track along current Gold Camp Rd, CR 8, 1901. On April 13, 1897, Lucian D. Ross, Thomas Burk, James L. Lindsay, W.T. Doubt and Kurnel R. Babbitt organized the Cripple Creek District Railway Company to operate a 6.25-mile (10.06 km) 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway with an overhead line between Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado.
The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad developed it as a route to take gold and supplies in and out of the Cripple Creek and Victor gold mining district. Phantom Canyon Road, a portion of the Gold Belt Byway that runs through the canyon, is an unpaved road connecting Cañon City and Victor. The road is popularly used for mountain biking and ...
The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad (CC&VNG RR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates seasonal tourist trains between Cripple Creek and the city's outskirts to the south. The railroad uses a revitalized section of the original Midland Terminal Railway and the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad.
It consisted of 7.13 miles of narrow-gauge steam road extending from Victor to Vista Grande, Colo., owned by the Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Railroad, and 74.25 miles of standard-gauge road, all steam operated except 17.7 miles operated electrically, extending from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, Colo., with branches owned by The ...
Ute Trail became a wagon road in the 1860s providing transport to Leadville mining camp. [1] In 1872 the old wagon road through Ute Pass started at Rainbow Falls, or Ute Pass Falls. [7] The Colorado Midland Railway had tracks through the Ute Pass to Leadville and Aspen beginning in 1888. Service was later extended to Cripple Creek.