Colorado’s Mountain Railroads Volume 2 II by RA LeMassena Soft Cover

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Colorados Mountain Railroads Volume 2 II by RA LeMassena

Soft Cover

101 pages

CONTENTS

PART I - The Rio Grande's First Thirteen Locomotives.

INDEX - Part I

PART II - The Denver & Rio Grande Railway 1870-1886

PART III - The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 1886-1908

PART IV - The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (Consolidated) 1908-1921

PART V - The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad 1921-1947

PART VI - The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (Reorganized) 1947-1965

INDEX - Parts II,III,IV,V,VI

PART VII - The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway 1881-1889

PART VIII - The Rio Grande Western Railway 1889-1908

INDEX - Parts VII,VIII

PART IX - The Rio Grande Southern Railroad 1889-1953 INDEX - Part IX

PART X - Bibliography, Photo Sources

PREFACE

This volume, the second in a series of three, was designed to fill the need for a single and complete source of fundamental information concerning Colorado's operating steam railroads, and the locomotives which have pulled their cars for nigh on to an entire century. When one asks about the Noland Land & Transfer Co., or the Treasury Mountain Ry., perhaps even the Denver, Clear Creek & Western, he may find something which attests to their existence at some time or other. But, to pin-down the dates, to locate the trackage, or to discover photographs of their locomotives, is quite a different matter.

Fortunately, Colorado has been blessed with the efforts of devoted and prolific individuals, who have chronicled several of the State's railroads in text, maps and photos, before time had completely erased their traces. In spite of this activity, most of Colorado's railroads lie in a sort of twilight-zone; maps show them; reports mention them; and some can be located only by stereo aerial-photography. As for their steam locomotives, they have vanished from the earth, leaving less trace than their abandoned roadbeds.

Now, two individuals, working independently, have brought these yesteryear railroads back to life. Ed Haley, a professional cartographer, has revised Clasan's huge and unpublished railroad-map, bringing it up to date by adding all of the new trackage built since 1913, and resurrecting that trackage which had disappeared before then. With it, every railroad which ever operated a train in Colorado can be located. Simultaneously, Bob LeMassena, a devoted researcher, had been collecting photographs of the steam locomotives of these railroads, and had been compliling their rosters, together with corporate and physical data about the railroads. It is indeed fortunate that this incredible map and this "handbook" are appearing together, since they complement one-another.

Volumes I and Ill are concerned with all of Colorado's many railroads, excepting that one which is the State's "home railroad", the Denver & Rio Grande Western. Unusual in several ways, the Rio Grande is an exceptionally efficient railroad, despite its difficult operating conditions. Aside from its splendid standard-gauge trackage with 100% Diesel-electric locomotion, the Rio Grande operates more narrow-gauge mileage and steam locomotives than does any other carrier in the Nation, as the highly popular and very profitable passenger consist, the Silverton Train attests.

Here, in this volume, is the story of the "Rio Grande Family": the D&RGW and its ancestors, the Rio Grande Western (told for the first time), and the Rio Grande Southern. The chronology is complete, spanning the years from '1870 to 1965, and portrays the inter-related development of the Rio Grande's trackage, locomotives, traffic and corporate affairs as does no other account.

Still, not quite enough is known about the "Utah ancestors" of the D&RGW. Perhaps this volume sill serve to bring forth more photographs and information concerning these too little known railroads which were such important members of the Rio Grande family.

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