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Colorado’s Mountain Railroads Volume 3 III by RA LeMassena Soft Cover
Colorados Mountain Railroads Volume III 3 by RA LeMassena
Soft Cover
Copyright 1964
144 Pages - not numbered
CONTENTS
Denver & Salt Lake
Denver & Scranton
Denver, South Park & Pacific
Edna Coal Co
Elk Creek Coal Co
Fairmont
Fisher Lumber Co
Florence & Cripple Creek
Gilpin
Gilpin Tramway
Globe Smelting & Refining Co
Golden Circle
Great Western
Great Western Sugar Co
Hallack & Howard Lumber Co
Hayden Coal Co
Highlands Street Ry
Koppers Co
Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific
Laramie, North Park & Western
Little Book Cliff
London, South Park & Leadville
Magic Mountain
Manitou & Pikes Peak
Middle Park Lumber Co
Midland Terminal
Moffat Coal Co
Montezuma Lumber Co
National Lumber & Creosoting Co
New Mexico Lumber Co
Noland Land & Transfer Co
Pagosa Lumber Co
Park
Philadelphia Smelting & Refining Co
Pueblo Smelting & Refining Co
Rio Grande, Pagosa & Northern
Rio Grande & Pagosa Springs
Rio Grande & Southwestern
Rocky Mountain
Routt Country Fuel Co
Rust Lumber Co
Salt Lake & Eastern
Salt Lake & Ft Douglas
San Luis Central
San Luis Southern
San Luis Valley Southern
San Pete Valley
Santa Fe Southern
Silverton
Southern San Luis Valley
Spring Canon Coal Co
Stone Mountain RR & Quarry Co
Texas, Santa Fe & Northern
Treasury Mountain
Trinchera Estate Co
Unitah
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf
United States
Utah Central
Utah & Pleasant Valley
Victor Fuel Co
Wasatch & Jordon Valley
PREFACE
This volume, the third of three which are planned, 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 Clason'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 compiling 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.
But, the job is not entirely complete. For example, the Denver, Utah & Pacific roster, appearing in print for the first time, has a couple of holes which no one seems to be able to plug. And, who has a photo of the four Denver & Rio Grande locomotives which were loaned to the Colorado Northern? These are typical of the historical gaps, which, it is hoped, someone else can fill with a bit of data, or a revealing photograph.
As has been done in the preceding volumes, certain railroads in Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico have been included because they are directly related to those in Colorado. Were these to be omitted, the Chronicle of Colorado's Mountain Railroads would be incomplete.
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