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A railway line the Gilson Manufacturing Company created that ran from Crevasse, Colorado (later known as Mack, Colorado) to Black Dragon in order to mine natural asphalt from the Black Dragon uintaite vein. The railway was headquartered in Mack, Colorado. It’s final destination and turning point was Watson, Utah. It’s main mission was to haul gilsonite, but it also included one passenger car. According to Mesa County History Project interviewee...
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Formed in 1869 from several small Virginia railroads, this railroad line reached the Ohio River by 1873 and went on towards the Midwest reaching as far as Chicago, Illinois. With the formation of Amtrak, the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad line's passenger services ended in 1971. *Some information for this description was taken from the Wikipedia entry for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
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The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad until it was absorbed into the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1981.
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The Argentine Central Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in the United States built from the Colorado and Southern Railway at Silver Plume, Colorado to Waldorf, Colorado (now a ghost town) and onward to the summit of Mount McClellan.
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On November 27, 1887, the Edison Electric Light Company lighted the first place in Salida. The Salida Mail reported: ‘The incandescent lamps that were lighted on F St. Bridge last evening caused much surprise on account of the brilliantlight that covered such a wide field.’ The process had begun earlier that year in April, when the city council approved H.H. Brown, esquire, to build a power plant in town. An ordinance was then filed in May...
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A railroad track established by William Thomas Carpenter to transport the coal from the Book Cliff Coal Mine from 1889-1925. It started at the yard depot, located just west of Rice Street on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. It then proceeded up 1st Street north toward First Fruitridge, turning east to go down Bookcliff Avenue and crossing the big ditch just before Patterson, where it headed into the desert and toward the Bookcliffs and the...
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A rail line that ran from Denver to South Park to Leadville. Construction began in 1873 and finished when the 'High Line' (branch line) to Leadville was made in 1880, followed by the Alpine Tunnel which allowed the mainline to reach Gunnison in 1882. Was succeeded by the Colorado and Southern Railway who began dismantling the line in 1910 starting with the Alpine Tunnel's closure and then ending with the Denver/Leadville connection being discontinued...
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The company maintained a coal mine and tipple in Garfield County, Colorado, which they used to supply their foundry in Pueblo via the company-owned Crystal River Railroad. The company was founded by John C. Osgood in the late Nineteenth century.
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Formed in 1925 by Pullman Porters, who were African-American porters that worked for the railroad on sleeping cars. It was the first African-American labor union to succeed in brokering a collective bargaining agreement with a major corporation - a win that helped lay the foundation for the future Civil Rights Era.
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A company founded by brothers Albert “Bert” Carlton and Leslie Carlton sometime around 1889. It delivered coal and firewood for local mines. It also transported ore from the mines directly to the Midland Terminal Railroad. The company had large buildings in both Victor and Cripple Creek. Troy Wade, husband of oral history interviewee Grace Wade, ran the company during the 1930’s. After prohibition was lifted, the company also served as a beer...
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"The American Railway Union (ARU) was briefly among the largest labor unions of its time and one of the first industrial unions in the United States. The union was launched at a meeting held in Chicago in February 1893 and won an early victory in a strike on the Great Northern Railroad in the summer of 1893." -Wikipedia
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