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A Journal of Rail History in the
Rocky Mountain West
From the Colorado Railroad Museum
We have been publishing our Colorado Rail Annual
at intervals since 1963. Our objective has been to fill the role of an active
journal of rail history in the Rocky Mountain west, covering interesting
aspects of railroading in the region with a balance of carefully researched
text and the best available photography. Growing acceptance by rail history
enthusiasts has the Colorado Rail Annual series as one of the nation's leading
source of western railroad history.
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$54.95.
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Rio Grande: Memories of the Final Years
Colorado Rail Annual No. 28
By Ronald C. Hill. |
| A pictorial glimpse
of the final fifteen years of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Covering the final years of the D&RGW, roughly between 1973 and 1988
when the railroad succumbed to a merger with the Southern Pacific, this all-color
photo book consists of many historic photos of locomotives and equipment
no longer in service.
112 pages, all color photos, horizontal format,
hardcover. $54.95 |
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Western Pacific
Colorado Rail Annual No. 27
The Last Transcontinental Railroad
By David F. Myrick. |
| This carefully researched
and well-written book by an eminent railroad historian describes the conception
and building of the Western Pacific, a railroad that was a Pacific extension
for the Denver & Rio Grande.
Early surveys, complex financial arrangements,
difficulties encountered during construction, effects of the San Francisco
earthquake and the financial panic of 1907 are covered in detail. So are
colorful events and personalities such as Hindoo workers and tycoons Gould,
Harriman and Hill. The railroad endured two receiverships and eventually
experienced post-World War II prosperity. Western Pacific operated such
well-remembered passenger trains as the Feather River Express,
Exposition Flyer, and California Zephyr.
Coverage includes the northern California extension,
built to connect with Great Northern's 1931 entrance into the Golden State,
as well as a summary of later WP operation right up to the 1982 merger into
Union Pacific and subsequent developments.
232 pages, over 200 black and white photos, 17 in
color, 27 maps, index, hardcover. $49.95 |
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Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Varnish
Colorado Rail Annual No. 25
A Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Passenger
Train Car Roster 1871-1981
By Herbert Danneman. |
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| This book contains interior
and exterior photos, folio sheets with dimensions, floor plans, and detailed
rosters of every car used in narrow gauge passenger train service on the
Denver & Rio Grande. A valuable and usable source of information for
modelers, historians, and D&RGW fans interested in the transition from
the early 4-wheel cars, tourist sleepers, RPO and express cars, through the
modernized San Juan Express to the Silver Vista and the new
steel cars for the Silverton Train.
328 pages, horizontal format, over 200 photos, hardcover.
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A Ticket to Ride the Narrow Gauge
Colorado Rail Annual No. 24
A Chronological History of Denver & Rio Grande
Western Narrow Gauge Passenger Trains and Their Equipment 1871-1981
By Herbert Danneman. |
| This study is the fruit
of nearly 20 years' research by the author in the archives of Colorado Railroad
Museum, Denver Public Library Western History Department, Colorado Historical
Society, California State Railroad Museum, and many private collections.
A foreword by D&RGW historian Jackson C. Thode sets the tone for this
definitive reference.
Year-by-year rosters untangle the complex genealogy
of car rebuilding and renumbering. Schedules and equipment assignments include
Denver & Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western and its Utah antecedents, Rio
Grande Southern, Florence & Cripple Creek, and the Silverton short lines.
Surviving cars on Durango & Silverton, Cumbres & Toltec and Huckleberry
railroads are included. You will find locomotive rosters, a list of dining
stations, timetables, correspondence, advertisements, and other tidbits of
narrow gauge history.
272 pages, including several in color, over 300
photographs and illustrations, bibliography, acid-free paper, hardcover.
$49.95
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Santa Fe in the Intermountain West
Colorado Rail Annual No. 23
"Santa Fe All The Way". A Ration Mountain Railway
Journal details the AT&SF's famed passage from Trinidad, Colorado, to
Raton, New Mexico.
By Daniel E. Seward. |
| Beginning in prehistoric
times, author Seward brings the story up to the early 1970s and Amtrak. Included
are other rail lines in the area: Colorado & Southern, Denver & Rio
Grande, several coal short lines and even the Trinidad street railway. Renowned
locomotive historian Lloyd Stagner's From Newton, New Mexico in the Steam
Era: The Santa Fe Northern District 1909-1953 outlines AT&SF locomotive
practices, operations and assignments.
This is complemented by Northern District Steam Panorama, an overview
by another authority on steam locomotives in the West, Cornelius Hauck. Corny
also covers the steam era shops and activity at the division point of La
Junta in La Junta: the Santa Fe's Colorado Connection. Farther west,
Gordon Bassett's Desert Main Line: The Santa Fe in Arizona surveys
AT&SF across the northern part of the Sunset State. Emphasis is on history
and operations before 1950, including the remote mainline telegraph station
at Nelson.
296 pages with maps and timetables, over 350 illustrations, many in color,
acid free paper, hardcover. $49.95
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Journeys Through Western Rail History
Colorado Rail Annual No. 22
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a Statement: Reminiscences of a Union Pacific Claim Agent by Jack Pfeifer.
The Lost Locomotive of Kiowa Creek, by Lloyd
Glasier.
Short Line Through a Lonely Land: The New Mexico
Central by Vern Glover.
The 1921 Flood and the Moffat Tunnel: Economics
and Politics of a Disaster in Colorado, by Stephen S. Hart.
Denver's Light Rail Launched, by Robert W.
Rynerson.
Looking Back: The Streetcar and Railroad Heritage
of RTD's Light Rail Division by Kenton Forrest.
168 pages, over 200 illustrations, including many
in color, acid free paper, hardcover. $19.95
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Robert W. Richardson's
Narrow Gauge News
Colorado Rail Annual No. 21
From 1949 until 1958, Bob Richardson was the editor
and "abandoned line reporter" of the Narrow Gauge News. |
| Seventy-three mimeographed
and six printed issues were mailed to those who sent self-addressed stamped
No. 10 envelopes to the "World's Largest Narrow Gauge Museum and Motel" at
South Alamosa, Colorado. Circulation was limited, and today copies are almost
impossible to find. We have reprinted these as a book with over 170 photographs
made from Bob's original negatives, many of which have never been published
before, now preserved in the Western History Collection of the Denver Public
Library.
This is a fascinating account of the final years
of the San Juan and Galloping Geese, snow-fighting, abandonment hearings
and last runs. The struggle among railroad officials, employees, railfans
and a then-indifferent public over the survival of the slim gauge is recounted
from Bob Richardson's unique perspective. Bob has written an introduction
describing how he chronicled the declining years of Colorado's narrow gauge
empire four decades ago. The Narrow Gauge News played an unrecognized
role in building public support for the surviving narrow gauge we treasure
today.
303 pages, over 190 illustrations, six paintings
by Ted Rose reproduced in color, acid free paper, hardcover.
$39.95
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Dreams, Visions and Visionaries
Colorado Rail Annual No. 20
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| In the Mountains
of Utah by Jackson Thode and James L. Ozment. Early construction on the
Rio Grande in the Utah desert and across Soldier Summit.
General Palmer's Other Narrow Gauge by Robert
A. LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge.
The Denver Post's Frontier Days Special by
Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest.
The Greatest Train by Alexis
McKinney. A personal reminiscence of the Frontier Days.
Union Pacific's Articulated Steam Power by
R.H. Kindig and R.C. Farewell.
240 pages, over 300 photographs, acid free paper,
hardcover. $19.95
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Coal, Cinders and Parlor Cars
Colorado Rail Annual No. 19
A Century of Colorado Passenger
Trains |
| Colorado Midland
Passenger Service 1887-1918 by William F. Gale. This detailed study
provides new insights into the Midland's operations and is lavishly
illustrated.
Streetcars and Suburbs by Thomas J. Noel.
Traces the early history of Denver's urban rail system - horse, cable,
steam and electric.
Silverton Trilogy: Fifty Years of Passenger
Service covers the famed Silverton Train's emergence since 1941 in three
chapters - the transition from mixed train to tourist train by
Robert W. Richardson, the Rio Grande's development programs of the mid-60s
by John S. Walker Jr., and coverage of the new independent Durango &
Silverton by R.C. Farewell.
Zimbabwe Steam Safari by Ronald C.
Hill offers a contrasting view of narrow gauge steam railroading in
southern Africa.
236 pages, over 220 illustrations, acid free paper,
hardcover. $39.95
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Railroading in the Rockies a Half Century Ago
Colorado Rail Annual No. 18
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| Eastward Ho: A Tale
of Two Californians' Journey to Colorado by Ted Wurm.
Westward Ho: A Record of a Coloradoan's Rail Photo
Safari by John Maxwell.
On Line: The True Account of Three Years in a
Santa Fe Business Car by Ed Mahoney.
Here are the first-person accounts of three noted
western rail history enthusiatsts who were there fifty and more years
ago - observing and recording when steam and varnish and high cars ruled
supreme, before many rail lines succumbed to progress. We invite you
to follow them through the pages of this book and relive the grand era of
railroading through their eyes.
220 pages, 340 photos and maps, hardcover.
$39.95
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Rock Island - Tennessee Pass - Fort Collins Trolleys
Colorado Rail Annual No. 17
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| Rocketing to the
Rockies by Michael Doty and Mel McFarland. A history of the Rock Island
Railroad in Colorado.
Tennessee Pass by Robert LeMassena. Examines
over 100 years of Rio Grande on Tennessee Pass on the "Royal Gorge
Route".
Last of the Birneys combines the work of Ernest
Peyton and Al Kilminster to chronicle the story of the Fort Collins
trolleys.
280 pages, over 300 photos, 14 in color, maps and
timetables, hardcover. $19.95
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Short Line to Cripple Creek
Colorado Rail Annual No. 16
The Story of the Colorado Springs Cripple Creek
District Railway
By Tivis E. Wilkins. |
| The Cripple Creek gold
rush of 1891 created a need for railroads to serve the boom town which swelled
to 50,000. Here is the story of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek
District Railway, or short line.
180 pages, over 175 photos, 10 in color, maps,
timetables, bibliography and index, hardcover. $29.95
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Idaho - Montana Issue
Colorado Rail Annual No. 15
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| Three interrelated topics
are presented on a part of the west often overlooked.
Utah Northern by Mallory Hope Ferrell is a
history of the Ogden-Butte line of the Union Pacific.
U.P. Montana by Cornelius W. Hauck is a profusely
illustrated story of the operations on the Butte line after standard
gauging.
Gilmore & Pittsburgh by Rex Myers covers
a virtually unknown standard gauge line in Idaho's Salmon River
country.
316 pages, over 200 photos, rosters and maps, hardcover.
$24.95
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Narrow Gauge to Central City and Silver Plume
Colorado Rail Annual No. 10
Route of the Famed Georgetown
Loop
By Cornelius W. Hauck. |
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| A history of the
first narrow gauge to push west into the Rockies. Begun in 1872 as the Colorado
Central, it became part of the Union Pacific and eventually the Colorado
& Southern. Built to serve the mining communities of Gilpin and Clear
Creek counties, its famed Georgetown Loop became a popular tourist
attraction.
220 pages, over 300 photos, hardcover.
$19.95
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Galloping Geese on the Rio Grande Southern
Colorado Rail Annual No. 9
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Gasoline Fumes is the story of the Galloping Goose motor cars which once
plied the Rio Grande Southern.
Prospector: Judge's Train tells of the Rio
Grande's overnight Denver-Salt Lake City streamliner.
A Tribute to Fred Jukes is a pictorial of
the great early-day photographer on the Rio Grande.
The C&TS examines the start of the Cumbres
& Toltec Scenic Railroad.
144 pages, black and white photos, hardcover.
$29.95
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