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Coal Cinders And Parlor Cars Colorado Rail Annual #19 Century CO passenger train
Coal Cinders And Parlor Cars a Journal of Railroad History in the Rocky Mountain West
Colorado Rail Annual #19
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1991
238 Pages
Table Of Contents
Colorado Midland
Passenger Service: 1887-1918
By William F. Gale
Preface And Acknowledgments 9
An Overview Of Colorado Midland Schedules 11
Corporate History 20
Colorado Midland Mileages 27
The Denver Connection 30
The Leadville Problem 32
Colorado Midland Schedules Through The Years 37
Epilogue 118
Streetcars & Suburbs
The Impact Of Denver's First Light Rail Network
By Thomas J. Noel 120
A Silverton Trilogy:
Fifty Years Of Passenger Trains
From Mixed Trains To Tourists
By Robert W. Richardson 142
Alexis Mckinney And Rio Grande-Land
By John S. Walker, Jr. 164
Mainline To Silverton
By R. C. Farewell 178
Zimbabwe Steam Safari
By Ronald C. Hill 220
About The Authors 236
Dust Jacket Introcuction:
Colorado Midland Passenger Service:
1887-1918
Passenger trains have served the Colorado Rockies for 120 gars. From the October morning in 1871 when the first Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge train set out for Colorado Springs right up to the present time, railroads have met a variety of transportation needs for the citizens of the Centennial State. In years past a large number of narrow and standard gauge mutes, most of which have been long-abandoned, were the only means of getting from one place to another through the canyons and over the high passes. Even then, however, tourists from across the nation and around the world had discovered the magnificent Colorado mountain scenery. Such travelers comprised a large part of the patronage throughout the great era of train travel. Today, riding trains for pleasure and scenery has become a big part of the states tourism industry and is shared by such diverse entities as Amtrak, Georgetown Loop and Mullion & Pikes Peak.
In Colorado Rail Annual No. 19, we have an opportunity to compare two railroads of the past and present. First. William F. Gale gives a detailed analysis of the scheduling of the Colorado Midland-one of the most fondly remembered of abandoned mountain railroads. He describes how the CM served such famous communities as Cripple Creek, Leadville and Aspen. We can see how schedules were adjusted to reflect changing conditions from boom times through the decline in mining. The reader can understand how intertwined were the destinies of the railroad and the territory it served. We have tried to enhance Bill's fine text with a selection from the vast amount of advertising material published by the Colorado Midland to lure patronage away from its competitors-the South Park and the Denver & Rio Grande.
The other major feature of this Annual describes the evolution of the Silverton train from a little used and nearly abandoned branch line in the 1940s into what is today perhaps Colorado's best known train. This story is told from three different perspectives. Bob Richardson, one of the most respected rail historians. tells about the years 1941-1962 and the role he played in developing support for the train during a time when it was little appreciated by the communities it served. John S. Walker Jr. goes on to explain the key role of one individual in the modern revival of The Silverton. Alexis McKinney was certainly the right person in the right place at the right time. Finally, R.C. Farewell continues the narrative with a description of innovations and improvements made by Charles E. Bradshaw Jr. under the banner of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
We are delighted that Bob Richardson has provided us with a great number of his own photographs which never before have been published. Rich Farewell has carefully printed these from the original negatives to insure the best possible reproduction and has used many of his own sparkling images to complete the illustration.
As an entr nee to the above. we are pleased to present an informative essay on another form of rail passenger service, that of urban street railways. Thomas J. Noel is one of those rare people who combines good scholarship with good writing. In his description of how the neighborhoods of Denver were developed and served by its electric trolley system, we can appreciate how this technology. now known as light rail transit," could once again be an asset to metropolitan living.
Finally, Ron Hill reminds us that Colorado has no monopoly on narrow gauge railroads. It is interesting to compare his pioneer steam enthusiast trek to Zimbabwe in 1990 with Bob's similar yenturo to Colorado years ago. At the time, the San Juan Mountains were perhaps almost as remote to an Ohioan as Africa seems to us today. At any rate, enthusiasm for steam and smoke knows no boundaries.
At this point we wish to acknowledge and thank several individuals. in addition to those cited by each author, who were most generous in sharing their time and talent in order to make publication of Colorado Rail Annual No. 19 possible. We could not have done our job without them: Richard Cooley Amos Cordova of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad; the Farewell family-Herbert, Virginia, Neil, R.C. Jr.. and Pauline; E.J. Haley; Cornelius Hauck; Jerry Johnson. Cindy Schumacher, and Michel Reynolds of Johnson Publishing Company; Richard H. Kindig; Erwin Krebs; A.D. Mastrogiuseppe of the Denver Public Library, Western History Department; Richard H. Mathews; S. Mazzucca: Alexis McKinney; Eric Paddock and Judy Steiner of the Colorado Historic-al Society and Richard Ronzio. Finally, we wish to thank our authors for the privilege of publishing their manuscripts. By relinquishing the royalties they would have received from other publishers, they have enhanced our ability to preserve history at the Colorado Railroad Museum.
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