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Colorado Railroad Museum Passenger Equipment |
Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
Narrow Gauge
Combine #50
1910 Official Guide ad / collection
Uintah Railway #50
combine / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
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from Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Beebe and Clegg / collection
The Uintah Railway was a small 3 ft narrow gauge railroad company in Utah and Colorado in the United States. It was constructed to carry Gilsonite which provided most of its operating revenues; but it operated as a common carrier from 1904 to 1939, also carrying passengers, mail, express, and other cargoes including sheep and wool. When a public library was built in Dragon in 1910, the Uintah Railway agreed to deliver library books free of charge to and from any borrower along its route. Many area ranchers and miners took advantage of the opportunity.
In 1926 the railroad purchased an articulated locomotive, #50, which was specifically designed to handle the extreme curvature and steep grades of Baxter Pass. The idea was that this new locomotive would do away with the need to change engines at Atchee and Wendella. The single articulated locomotive could move as many cars as two Shay locomotives from Rainbow to Atchee and made the trip in half the time. After some initial modifications, this engine proved to be such a success that in 1928 the railroad purchased a sister locomotive, #51. These were the only narrow gauge simple articulated locomotives sold for use in the United States.
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he Uintah was all grade. Its right of way ranged north and west from the Rio Grande at Mack, over the highest point on its profile, 8,437 feet at Baxter Pass, crossed into Utah at milepost 50 and came to its terminal at Watson, sixty-two miles from where it started. The balance of its mileage was accounted for by branch lines to mines at Dragon and Rainbow. Although its engines and cars were on some sort of grade running upward from one per cent most of the time, the prize exhibit of the railroad was an incredible five miles south of Baxter Pass of constant seven and a half per cent rise. The grade was achieved over a bewilderment of loops, swirls and hairpin turns, the most abrupt of which was 66 degrees, and crews who had worked head-end or braked on the Uintah smiled tolerantly at mountain railroading elsewhere. They had taken graduate degrees.
Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg / Narrow Gauge in the Rockies / 1958
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1938 employee timetable / collection
from Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Beebe and Clegg / collection
Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
Denver Rio Grande & Western #B-8
business car / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. B-8 was purchased by the D&RG in 1872 and is considered to be the oldest remaining narrow gauge passenger car in the country.
Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
Golden, Co / Jun 2005 / Tim Fennell 
Denver Rio Grande & Western #B-21
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Museum Excursion Cars
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Transit
postcard / collection
Golden, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Car NO. 22 —
Built by the American Car Co. of St. Louis in 1919, it was well maintained throughout the years. This car was the last to operate when streetcar service ended on June 30, 1951. The Club then purchased 22 and moved it the Colorado Railroad Museum where it was placed on display.
The Club has since leased 22 to the Pike's Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation in Colorado Springs for restoration. The Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation purchased the car from the club in July 2006. The PPHSF as dedicated many man hours and funds in the cars restoration.
this streetcar also posted in Pikes Peak Trolley Museum
Golden, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
No. 25 Interurban Streetcar —
For nearly 40 years, the No. 25 Interurban Streetcar served the electric rail transit system that connected Denver, Colorado with her neighboring cities Golden and Boulder. From 1911 to 1950, Car No. 25 ran from Golden to Denver, passing through Lakewood, as one of seven cars on the passenger service. It is now the only remaining, completely intact car from the transit system that once united the Denver Metropolitan Area.
After 22 years of restoration efforts, the restored No. 25 is on both the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties and the National Register of Historic Places, and is currently located at the Denver Federal Center awaiting relocation to the future Oak Street Transit Museum.
On August 14, 2010 and August 13, 2011, the restored No. 25 Interurban Streetcar was open to the public. The West Corridor Historical Rail Cooperative and the Lakewood Heritage Center recorded interviews with local residents about their experiences with the electric rail system.
Jefferson County Colorado Public Library
Standard Gauge
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Navajo
round-end observation / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
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Chicago Burlington & Quincey #96
business car / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
Colorado & Southern #254
railway post office / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
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Union Pacific #5442
coach / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
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Union Pacific #4801
diner / Golden, Co / May 2023 / RWH
