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Kite Route Denver & Interurban Railroad by Jones & Holley Dust jacket 1986
The Kite Route Denver & Interurban Railroad by William Jones & Noel Holley Dust jacket 1986 First Edition 159 pages Indexed
"Quick. Clean, Comfortable and Inexpensive. High speed, modern Electric trains from Denver Union Station." Publicity for a proposed new rapid transit system for the 1990s? No, rather it is an advertisement dated 1908 for the just completed Denver & Interurban Railroad offering hourly service at 50 mph speed between Denver and Boulder via Westminster, Broomfield, Louisville and during summer the Eldorado Springs resort. The fare just fifty cents.
Prosperous for its first decade, the growing popularity of the automobile, jitneys and bus lines eventually cut deeply into the interurban's revenue, spelling its demise in 1926. The same route is today one of the most congested in metro Denver with constant discussion of the need for additional highways.
Here is the full story of the Kite Route-so named because a map of its route resembled a kite flying on the end of a string. More than 150 photos, most never before published, plus maps, documents and timetables combine with a carefully researched text to chronicle the short but colorful history of this electric railway which when new was considered a showpiece of American interurban lines.
Turn the pages and come along for a nostalgic ride aboard a big green interurban as it speeds through the northern Colorado countryside in a time long gone by.
Table of Contents
1 The Denver & Interurban Railroad Company
A Colorado & Southern Subsidiary 9
2 Interurbans to Boulder
The Route and the Schedule 27
3 Denver & Interurban Operations
The Cars, the Shops and the Power System67
4 Big Green Cars in the Streets95
5 Interurban Chronicles 123
6 Good Times and Bad
Receivership, Buses and Abandonment145
Bibliography and Source of Information158
Index
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