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Front Range Passenger Rail is a proposed intercity passenger train service along the Front Range and broader I-25 corridors in Colorado and Wyoming. Most proposals envision a route from Pueblo north to Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins. Extensions north to Cheyenne and south to Trinidad, Albuquerque, and even El Paso have been ...
1893 A train with special guests reaches the top on 5 May and the line opens to the public on 14 June. 1896 The Berner Oberland-Bahn become the new owners. 1913 The first electric trial run operates on 15 October. [2] 1914 Public electric services start on 9 May. [2] 1928 The Schynige Platte Alpine Garden opens on the Schynige Platte.
It is also the valley terminus of the Schynige Platte Railway, whose trains operate to the Schynige Platte and are stabled at a depot bordering the station. [1] [4] The two lines use different gauges, and there is no physical connection between them. However the trains operate from adjacent platforms within the same station. [1]
Schynige Platte is a railway station that is the upper terminus of the Schynige Platte railway, a rack railway that connects Wilderswil with the Schynige Platte mountain in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The Schynige Platte alpine botanical garden is accessed from the station, whilst a mountain hotel and restaurant is nearby. [1]
Breitlauenen station was created from the purchase of the inn at Breitlauenen when the Schynige Platte Railway was constructed in 1891. [3] The station, the inn and surrounding geography, are extensively covered in late 1890s literature.
A train at the Wilderswil station with the track of the Schynige Platte Railway (red train) on the adjacent platform. Since 1949 railcars have predominated. Some of the older electric locomotives still survive and are used for special trains. The centre of operations is Zweilütschinen with the depot headquarters and the modern main workshops.
A southbound Santa Fe coal train underneath Pikes Peak, on the Colorado Joint Line out of Denver, April 1983. The first set of tracks in the area were laid by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1871. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway laid their tracks parallel to the D&RG in 1888.
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 ...