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Author | : Richard C. Overton |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2015-01-16 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1477306242 |
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Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade of building in the 1870s, the state faced a new sort of isolation: every railroad crossing her borders was controlled by the Union Pacific or the Santa Fe. As a result, the Rocky Mountain region could not hope to compete with the Midwest for the business of the Atlantic seaboard. To remedy this situation, John Evans, former governor of Colorado, organized in 1881 a railroad to run southward from Denver as the first link in a cheap rail-water route via the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Meanwhile ambitious Fort Worth citizens had incorporated the Fort Worth and Denver City in 1873. Not a rail was laid on either road, however, until General Grenville M. Dodge, famed builder of the Union Pacific and the Texas Pacific, took up the Texas project and joined forces with Evans to create the Gulf-to-Rockies route. It took seven years for these men and their associates to mobilize funds and complete the Fort Worth–Denver line, and another decade to establish the system’s independence and solve its financial problems in the face of drought, depression, and intense competition. Gulf to Rockies was written under special agreements with Northwestern University and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, whereby the university relieved Mr. Overton of a part of his duties in order that he might have time for research and writing and the railroad undertook to bear the cost of the research. The Burlington also permitted him free access to all company records and granted him unrestricted freedom to publish his findings.
Author | : Robert M. Ormes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Greenleaf Athearn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Robert G. Athearn |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780803209206 |
Download The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nowhere better than in the history of its railroads is the growth of the Old West revealed, and for Colorado the development of the Denver and Rio Grande Western epitomizes the changes that took place between 1870 and the present. Robert G. Athearn's intimate knowledge of the West has enabled him to write a gripping account of the famous narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande as it inched its way south, then turned west into the Rockies. By f1883 it had joined with the Rio Grande Western to become Colorado's only line across the mountains. The Dotsero Cutoff and the six-mile Moffat Tunnel put Denver on a transcontinental line for the first time. Twelve maps and fifty-five illustrations help tell the story.
Author | : Lucius Beebe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
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The story of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad is in large measure the story of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region from the reconstruction years following the Civil War to the present.
Author | : Lucius Morris Beebe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780911581287 |
Download Narrow Gauge in the Rockies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Take a nostalgic 100 year Journey through the Rocky Mountains aboard the narrow gauge railways that snaked through them.
Author | : David Joseph Mitchell |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781550541885 |
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The exciting story of the epic feat of contracting and operating rail lines through the spectacular Rocky Mountains -- with 60 historic doutone photos of the drama of railroading in days gone by and 42 pages of colour photos that display the scenic grandeur.
Author | : Colorado Midland Railway Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Download Thru [sic] the Rockies of Colorado[.] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Terry Gainer |
Publisher | : Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781771603010 |
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When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer's personal memories and experiences from his years living and working at the legendary Banff Railway Station, this entertaining memoir and important historical record beckons the reader into the golden age of railway travel in the mountains of western Canada. Complete with a selection of archival photographs, When Trains Ruled the Rockies documents life at the Banff Railway Station and traces the huge role the station played in the local community. The author's own story of growing up at the station winds a thread through the narrative and brings into clear focus Terry's lifelong passion for passenger trains, at one time the most dominant means of transportation for Canadians but sadly an experience that is now fading into history.
Author | : Janice Hoyt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1984 |
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