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The Colorado Department of Transportation purchased the line from UP in 1998 for $10.2 million in hopes of finding a short-line operator to serve farmers and others in small towns along the route. [4] In 2000, CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. [5]
Category: Transportation in Kiowa County, Colorado. 1 language. ... U.S. Route 287 in Colorado; U.S. Route 385 in Colorado This page was ...
Colorado Central Railroad: Colorado Railroad: 1938 1957 N/A Colorado Railroad: CB&Q: 1906 1930 Colorado and Southern Railway: Colorado Railway: DRGW: 1883 1888 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad: Colorado Central Railroad: CB&Q: 1869 1890 Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway: Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad: CB&Q: 1866 1869 Colorado Central ...
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 ...
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.
Toward that goal, the AT&SF incorporated The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company in Kansas on July 13, 1899, which then built a line from Pauls Valley to what became the town of Lindsay, a distance of 24.2 miles, in the 1901-1903 timeframe. [2] The line’s first operation was in December of 1903. [2]
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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.