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Author : Kenton Forrest,Charles Albi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0918654319
Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0803209207
Nowhere better than in the history of its railroads is the growth of the Old West revealed, and for Colorado the development of the Denver and Rio Grande Western epitomizes the changes that took place between 1870 and the present. Robert G. Athearn's intimate knowledge of the West has enabled him to write a gripping account of the famous narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande as it inched its way south, then turned west into the Rockies. By f1883 it had joined with the Rio Grande Western to become Colorado's only line across the mountains. The Dotsero Cutoff and the six-mile Moffat Tunnel put Denver on a transcontinental line for the first time. Twelve maps and fifty-five illustrations help tell the story.
Author : Allan C. Lewis
Publisher : Gremese Editore
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738548022
At the height of America's post-Civil War expansion, Colorado Territory was a land of great hope and opportunity. Forged at the confluence of commerce and geography, Colorado became a state in 1876, and Denver, the Queen City of the Plains. To address the growing need for efficient transportation throughout the state, early railroads such as the Kansas Pacific and the Denver and Rio Grande were built in the 1870s. Serving all of these routes was the Denver Union Depot with its commodious dual-gauged tracks. These "steel roads" would become the region's economic lifeblood, hauling freight and passengers to the booming mountain mining towns, returning with ores for processing, and serving as the direct link for passengers and freight between the Rocky Mountains and the industrialized East.
Author : Richard C. Overton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781477306246
Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Author : R. A. LeMassena
Publisher : TLC Publishing (VA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 1883089484
"Robert LeMassena, one of America's foremost steam locomotive historians, takes another look at the D&RGW's standard gauge steam locomotives in the "big power" era and ending with the last of steam. he looks at the Rio Grande's profile, traffic, and geography, and how the railraod met its needs with some of the biggest, most powerful and most efficient non-articulated and articulated steam locomotives in American railroading. His concise, brief overview sheds new light on the motive power of this interesting and highly regarded Western railroad." --From back cover
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:B5160824
Author : Meredith Clarence Poor
Publisher : Denver, Colo. : Rocky Moutain R.R. Club
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Narrow gauge railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015021126761
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Railroads
ISBN : LOC:00133585801
Includes testimony before Senate Interstate Commerce Committee on Nov. 8 and 9, 1917 (p. 640-733) and Dec. 15 and 17, 1917 (p. 14-61).
Author : O. Meredith Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118159321
Author : Claude A. Wiatrowski
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0896585913
Claude Wiatrowski, with photography by Claude Wiatrowski. Through informative text, sharp color photography, and historical black-and-white images, Railroads of Colorado invites you on a journey from the railroad's humble and hard-won beginnings to its status as a symbol of our past. Railroads of Colorado also includes ideas for exploring Colorado's railways; both the ghosts of long-gone trains that haunt the mountains and the preserved trains whose whistles still echo off those granite peaks. It also contains other helpful information--such as a map showing the routes of more than 30 Colorado rail lines and a "railroad directory," which lists the contact information for 13 operating passenger trains and trolleys.Explores the fascination these improbable railways inspire, providing the history of these unique railroads, the engineering that paved their way into the mountains, and the men who built and ran them.
Author : Allan C. Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 073852929X
In 1860, thousands journeyed to the Colorado Territory, beckoned by reports of gold discoveries in the mountains west of Denver. In the early 1870s, W.A.H. Loveland built a railroad connecting Denver to the Clear Creek Mining District-the Colorado Central Railroad. Over the next 28 years, other lines were established, bought, sold, extended, and merged to service the mining towns of Black Hawk, Central City, Idaho Springs, and Silver Plume. In 1898, the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, and the Denver Leadville & Gunnison were combined to form the Colorado & Southern Railway. After more than 40 years of dedication to the Clear Creek District, the railroad was scrapped in 1941. However, tourism would revitalize the area, and in the years to come a group of enthusiasts began to rebuild a portion of the old right of way. Toady, the spirit of the C&S is alive again, and rail fans can make the same journey over "The Loop" that thrilled tourists a century ago.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Railroads
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7DXU
Author : Sandra F. Mather Ph.D. and Bob Schoppe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467116855
"Summit County's Narrow-Gauge Railroads tells the story of the two railroads that fought for dominance in Summit County, Colorado, during the late 1800s and early 1900s: the Denver, South Park & Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande. The two railroads developed an intense rivalry as they sought to monopolize the county's economic potential. Altitude, heavy winter snow, and rugged mountainous terrain combined to provide a unique set of challenges to company management as well as to the crews as they battled to lay the tracks and provide much-needed rail service to the residents and businesses of the county. Intimately tied to the mining economy, the fortunes of the railroads plummeted when the mining economy collapsed. Although poorly financed and poorly built, the railroads changed the living conditions for county residents. Without the railroads bringing the necessary equipment and lumber, nine huge gold-dredging boats would not have scoured the county's major waterways between 1898 and 1942"--Publisher's description.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045428153
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN : LOC:00123570340