Short Line to Cripple Creek, Colorado Rail Annual No. 16

Short Line to Cripple Creek, Colorado Rail Annual No. 16 by Wilkins, Tivis E.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780918654168.

Fascinating and detailed history Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway, familiarly known as the Short Line. The Cripple Creek gold rush of 1891 created a need for railroads to serve this boom town which swelled to 50,000 souls nearly overnight and competed with Denver for the state capital. Here is the story of the standard-gauge railroad that made its way into the near-exclusive narrow-gauge domain of Colorados Rocky Mountains. The Short Line utilized proven engineering methods to cut an impressive route to Cripple Creek. So impressive in fact that, when then Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt traversed the route in 1901, he is crediting with saying that it was a "trip that bankrupts the English language." When abandoned in the 1920s, the track was removed and the route was converted to the Corley Mountain Highway, an early tourism endeavor that survives today as the famous Gold Camp Road. With vintage ephemera. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and fifteen color postcards. With detailed rosters of interurban electric cars and bibliography. Includes a laid-in packet of specially drawn maps that includes: Colorado Springs Station grounds; Clyde and vicinity; St. Peters and Duffields; and a CS&CCD Travel folder reproduction. 180 pages with index.