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Mountain to Mill The Colorado and Wyoming Railway by William H. McKenzie HC
Mountain To Mill by William H. McKenzie Hard Cover
Mountain To Mill
The Colorado and Wyoming Railway
William H. McKenzie
Hard Cover
199 Pages
Copyright 1982
Contents
Ch 1 The Colorado Setting
Ch 2 Rails to Carry on
Ch 3 Rails to Carry Coal
Ch 4 C.F. & I. Becomes A Financiers Football
Ch 5 An Era of Technological Change
Ch 6 From Depression to Dieselization
Ch 7 The Era of Unit Trains and Computers
Ch 8 Floods- The Scourge of the Southern Division
Ch 9 Take A Ride on the Colorado & Wyoming
Roster
Bibliography
Index
Preface
In between these two railroads at Pueblo, Colorado, is yet another line, an industrial railroad whose mainstay of power consists of SW-8 switchers augmented by a couple of GP-7s. The tiny 800 HP switchers with their single stacks trundle back and forth in the shadow of towering blast furnaces and long sheet-iron covered buildings, hauling swaybacked rusted cars loaded with scrap iron, ladles of molten slag or steaming hot metal tank cars studded with rivets and shaped like footballs.
These are three different railroads, each with different missions and different personalities, but all are part of the Colorado & Wyoming Railway, the transportation subsidiary of CF&I Steel Corporation. The C&W operates 111 miles of track in three physically-separated divisions in two states.
Nature supplied the raw materials for a steel industry in the Rocky Mountains near the headwaters of mighty riversthe North Platte and the Arkansaswhich in that semi-arid region can float little more than a canoe. So it was that when William Jackson Palmer, founder of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, and his associates decided to start a steel industry in Colorado, they had to make do without the advantage of cheap transportation of coal, ore and limestone by river or lake to the mill site. CF&I Steel and its predecessors have had to depend on rail haulage from the beginning. But then that was what Palmer and his associates wantedindustry to provide freight revenues for their railroad.
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