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The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway was a 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railroad operating in the U.S. state of Colorado around the turn of the 20th century. History
The grand depot and Harvey House was built in 1917 as a joint Santa Fe/Colorado and Southern Railway facility. In 1972, the Santa Fe tracks through Colorado Springs were removed and rail operations were consolidated on the former Rio Grande trackage on the west side of town. The depot and the nearby express building (later used as a freight ...
Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Railroad: Fort Collins Development Railway: CB&Q: 1902 1908 Colorado Railroad: Fort Worth and Denver Railway: FWD CB&Q: 1881 1982 Burlington Northern Railroad: Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railway: CB&Q: 1881 1890 Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway: Gilpin Railroad: CB&Q: 1909 1917 N/A Gilpin ...
The Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway (CS & IRR, CS&IR) was an electric trolley system in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area that operated from 1902 to 1932. The company was formed when Winfield Scott Stratton purchased Colorado Springs Rapid Transit Railway in 1901 and consolidated it in 1902 with the Colorado Springs & Suburban Railway ...
The existence of the Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad prompted the citizens of Denver to incorporate the Denver Pacific Railroad on November 19, 1867. Following a spirited campaign raising capital, the Denver Pacific Railroad laid its first track in 1869. [1] By June 26, 1870, the Denver Pacific Railroad was completed.
Between 1965 and 1968 the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Community College and the Colorado Technical University were established in the city. [ 50 ] In 1972, the city's first National Register of Historic Places designation was the 1903 El Paso County Courthouse .
The Colorado Midland Railway (reporting mark CM), [1] incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction .
The Colorado and Southern 3-ft-gauge lines were formed in 1898 from the Colorado Central and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroads.The narrow gauge operations had four distinct portions: the Platte Canyon Line from Denver to Como, the Gunnison Line from Como to Gunnison via Alpine Tunnel, Highline between Como and Leadville, and the Clear Creek rail line from Denver to Silver Plume.