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Cripple Creek Railroads Quick History of the Great Gold Camps Railroad SC
Cripple Creek Railroads A quick history The rail systems of the Gold Camp by Lelande Feitz.
Copyright 1968 NINTH Printing 1980
Soft Cover
30 PAGES
No story of early Colorado could be written without at least passing mention of the railroads which plunged into the state's mountain vastness at scores of points. The lines wound along on narrow shelf roadbeds hacked out of canyon walls, climbed to dizzying heights above timberline, roared through networks of tunnels, cuts and fills, each an engineering marvel.
For it was the railroads that brought people into this raw land ... farmers, cattlemen, merchants, miners and madams ... and it was the railroads that carried the rich ores out of the mountains to reach the markets of the world. And because the railroads reached slim, sometimes precarious steel fingers into canyons and on to peaks, Colorado was able to develop and prosper more rapidly and systematically than any other western state.
The study of these early railroads is both rewarding and fascinating. Buffs have literally devoted lifetimes to reading, searching for old photos, tramping abandoned roadbeds and eagerly collecting artifacts as they reach back through time to learn the story of the little engines and big men who built the state of Colorado. The result is one of the best documented and thoroughly researched histories in the country today. Near Golden, Colorado, there is an entire museum devoted solely to the state's rail history.
Yet with all this excellent research material, there is a serious gap: few, if any, popular references have been written for the casual reader. The traveler, resident or tourist, who simply wants to know a little bit about the highway he is driving, is curious about what is obviously a railroad station (sans railroad) in the middle of nowhere, or who answers, "You've got to be kidding!" when told that streetcars once operated at nearly 11,000 feet delivering miners to their diggings.
Leland Feitz has taken a giant step toward filling that gap. This volume supplies the answers to many questions about the railroads of Cripple Creek, quickly, succinctly and certainly in adequate detail for the average reader. Mr. Feitz, as a parttime resident of Cripple Creek, is qualified to provide this information.
Travel now back into a history filled with chuffing steam engines, hardrock miners, construction feats unequalled in railroad annals, and people with a mighty dream and the sheer guts to make it come true.
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