{"product_id":"colorado-railroad-museum-roster-of-equipment-august-1976-20-pages","title":"Colorado Railroad Museum Roster of Equipment August 1976 20 pages","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:124840 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eColorado Railroad Museum Roster of Equipment August 1976 20 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eColorado Railroad Museum Roster of Equipment August 1976 20 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe three decades following the Civil War witnessed constant railroad planning, promoting and building activity throughout Western Colorado at an almost feverish pitch. In 1870 Colorado's first railroad, the standard gauge Denver Pacific, was completed from Denver to the Union Pacific line at Cheyenne; the Kansas Pacific reached Denver from Kansas City; and the Colorado Central Railroad opened a standard gauge line between Golden and Denver. Save for the panic in 1873, the rush was on. The next twenty years would see at least one and often several railroads planned up every canyon, pass, creek-bed and level spot in the Colorado Rockies. Some were envisioned as great systems reaching the Pacific; others were more frankly designed to tap the lucrative mining traffic; and some merely degenerated from the former to the latter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe most famous of all, possibly, was the Denver \u0026amp; Rio Grande (now D\u0026amp;RGW). Organized in 1870 to build a railroad from Denver to Mexico, it was planned for the then novel \"narrow\" gauge of three feet. The \"baby railroad,\" as it was called, was forced to alter its plans after losing its claim to strategic Raton Pass in northern New Mexico to the Santa Fe, as a result of the famous \"Royal Gorge War\" of 1878-79. The road then turned its attentions west, to the booming mining camps, reaching Leadville in 1880, Gunnison in 1881, Silverton in 1882, and through to Salt Lake (over the allied Rio Grande Western) in 1883. In 1890 the through route was standard gauged, but many miles of narrow gauge track remained in the mountains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe famous \"South Park\" narrow gauge was the Rio Grande's chief early rival for the mine traffic. Organized as the Denver, South Park and Pacific, progress was slow until the late seventies. Then in 1879 rails were pushed through from Denver into high South Park, reaching Buena Vista in 1880 and Leadville over joint trackage with the D\u0026amp;RG. Gunnison was reached via breath-taking Alpine Pass in 1882, and a new \"high line\" was constructed from South Park into Leadville in 1884. Thereafter the South Park's fortunes gradually declined with the mining industry. Finally, in 1937, as a lowly branch of the big Colorado \u0026amp; Southern system, the remaining Denver-Leadville service was abandoned.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe Rio Grande's other major rival was the legendary Colorado Midland. The Midland was begun in 1886 as a standard gauge line from Colorado Springs to Utah and the west coast. It was well built for its time, and traversed beautiful country, making it a tourist's delight. However, after reaching Grand Junction in 1890, it was content to connect there with the Rio Grande Western, which was allied with the D\u0026amp;RG. This failure to have its own line to Salt Lake proved fatal, for declining local traffic was insufficient to support both the Midland and the Rio Grande. Traffic disruption during World War I proved to be the final blow, and the once mighty Colorado Midland was abandoned in 1921 -one of America's largest single railroad abandonments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe last \"grand plan\" was the launching of the Denver \u0026amp; Salt Lake line in 1902 (as the Denver Northwestern \u0026amp; Pacific) from Denver \"straight through\" the mountains to Salt Lake. However, progress was halting, and the line finally stopped at Craig in 1913. It crossed \"impossible\" Rollins Pass at 11,660 feet, making it the highest standard gauge railroad in America, until the completion of the Moffat Tunnel beneath the Pass in 1928. In 1934, a connecting line was built west of Moffat Tunnel to the Rio Grande main line near Glenwood, creating a new direct line between Denver and Salt Lake some 175 miles shorter than the old D\u0026amp;RGW main line. The D\u0026amp;SL has since been absorbed into the larger Rio Grande System.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003ePerhaps the most spectacular of the narrow gauge railroads into the mining country was the Rio Grande Southern. Built by Otto Mears in 1890-91 principally to serve the rich Telluride-Rico mining districts, the \"Southern\" traversed the wildest, most isolated part of the great San Juan region in Southwestern Colorado. To connect the two terminals of Ridgway and Durango, barely sixty air miles apart, the line ran 162 miles across mountain ranges, through canyons, around spectacular Ophir Loop and over ten thousand foot Lizard Head Pass. Plunged into bankruptcy almost immediately after it was built, by the collapse of mining following the demonetizing of silver, it nevertheless managed to continue operating against staggering odds until 1952.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMany smaller railroads played important parts in Colorado's history also - such as the three famous roads to Cripple Creek - the narrow gauge Florence \u0026amp; Cripple Creek, the Midland Terminal, and the Colorado Springs \u0026amp; Cripple Creek District \"Short Line\"; the Colorado Central narrow gauge lines up Clear Creek to Central City and over the world-famed Georgetown Loop; the colorful Colorado \u0026amp; North Western - \"the Switzerland Trail\" - into the mountains from Boulder; and the desolate Uintah Railway with its incredible 71\/2% grades and 66curves over Baxter Pass. The abandoned grades of many of these lines can still be traced, crisscrossing across Colorado.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. 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