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South Park Line A Concise History Colorado Rail Annual No 12 w/ DJ
The South Park Line A Concise History Colorado Rail Annual No 12
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1974 SECOND PRINTING 1979
280 pages indexed, photos, maps, more.
The full story of the Colorado & Southern's famed South Park narrow gauge line is told in this carefully researched book of 270 pages and 350 rare photos. Built as the Denver, South Park & Pacific, the line crossed four towering mountain passes to reach early-day mining boom towns. Both the history and the flavor of the old South Park Line are captured in this twelfth volume in our popular Colorado Rail Annual series.
Contents
John Evans: Building the South Park 9
Gordon S. Chappell
Transition: The U. P. and Receivership 65
Cornelius W. Hauck
An Alpine Album 75
Colorado & Southern: An Operations Baedecker 91
Robert W. Richardson
Dick Jackson, South Park Photographer207
Less than Carload Lots 249
In 1870, Colorado was a sparcely settled Territory of 40,000 hardy pioneers. Exploitation of rich gold and, subsequently, silver deposits in the mountains turned it into a booming State over the next two decades, and this explosive expansion was made possible only by the coming of the railroad. Narrow gauge and, later, standard gauge lines such as the Colorado Central, Denver & Rio Grande, South Park, and Colorado Midland were the life-line of every mining camp and community in the mountains.
Today, highways and a changing economy have made only the most important of these lines a continued necessity, and the mountains are criss-crossed with the grades of those that have been abandoned over the years. Fortunately the Museum has been able to gather and preserve a large and varied collection of irreplaceable authentic material from the railroads that served Colorado's mountains and plains. Our Museum building, a replica of an 1880-style masonry railroad depot, houses the more fragile of our displays in glass cases and frames -- including rare old papers, records and photos displayed so as to give the viewer an accurate insight into the interesting histories of the various roads.
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