Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado By Robert Ormes Soft Cover 1975 for Sale

Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado By Robert Ormes Soft Cover 1975 For Sale

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Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado By Robert Ormes Soft Cover 1975:
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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado By Robert Ormes Soft Cover 1975 Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado By Robert Ormes 156 Pages IndexedHard cover with dust jacket (has plastic protective covering) Copyright 1975
CONTENTSPART I - THE PRAIRIES 1PART II - SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO 33PART III - DENVER WEST 59PART IV - COLORADO SPRINGS AND WEST 89PART V - SOUTHWEST 115PART VI - ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 147
INTRODUCTIONTHIS BOOK IS A GUIDE for the motorist, jeeper, cyclist or hiker who wants to see what is left of the railroads that chuffed their way across the rising plains and then climbed over the mountain barriers. It is for the buff who when he drives through an old curving cut can still hear the screech of wheels on the rails and the long toot toot of the train whistle echoing through the canyons.TILE MAPS are related to modern roads and jeep trails so the reader can use them to find and follow the grades. They also show such things as the gauge (standard if unspecified), the year of construction, of abandonment, and of any name changes that took place owing to reorganization. The script includes further guide information, brief historical summaries and a few other facts of interest.THE EXPLORATIONS began in 1954 with a motor trip through the San Juan. mainly along the Rio Grande Southern, and ended in 1973 with a large but little known lumber railroad known as the Colorado & Southwestern. It has covered all of Colorado, crossed slightly into Wyoming and Utah, and dipped deeply into northern New Mexico. Some of the information is taken from an earlier book Railroads and the Rockies, which was put together too hastily and is long since out of print. Other sources are too numerous to mention. Coverage includes some live railroads, mainly of special scenic interest.RECOMMENDED TRIPS include the following as starters:1. Live railroads: The Silverton Branch and the Toltec Scenic Railroad both all day rides behind narrow gauge steam locomotives. (Part V) Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railroad, Mount Manitou Incline (cable), and Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge (Part IV).2. Grades converted to road without changing character: See Boreas Pass and the approaches to Alpine Tunnel of the Denver South Park & Pacific, the Argentine Central (both in Part III), Trout Lake to Lizard Head Pass on the Rio Grande Southern (Part V), and any combination of the Cripple Creek lines including the CS&CCD (Part IV).3. Walking trips are many and varied, and most of them have some surprise or other. Notable among these are the north end of theDenver Pacifc and some of the ancient Arkansas Valley (Part I), Temple Canyon and above on the Grape Creek Branch (Part II), theArgentine Central and the two Floresta Branches (Part III) the Yule Creek and Treasure Mountain circle above Marble (Part IV), and Ophir to Vance Junction (Part V).4. THE COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM at 17155 West 44th Avenue in Golden has a large sampling of retired rolling stock and many smaller items of interest. The first part of the collection there came in 1959 from an earlier museum south of Alamosa.TILE DEDICATION is to my family and friends and the many students in a series of Colorado College Railroad Seminars who have shared with me the pleasures of exploring, mapping and photographing, and thus contributed to this book. Thanks go also to those who have let me have photographs: Abby Kernochan, Frank Seely, and the Western History Libraries in Denver.
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