• The Denver Pacific Railway was a historic railroad that operated in the western United States during the late 19th century. Formed in 1867 in the Colorado...
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    Denver Pacific Railway on November 19, 1867, with the intention of building a rail line from Denver to Cheyenne. The formation of the Denver Pacific Railway...
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    connected to Denver and its Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company railroad line in 1870. Cheyenne became a major railroad center and was equipped...
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    Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the...
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    Southern Pacific Transportation Company, itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The Union Pacific Railroad...
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    The Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad (later called the Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway) was a historic 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad...
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  • incorporated on November 19, 1867, as the "Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company." The sense of urgency for the Denver boosters was enhanced by the formation...
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    Evans pass, Union Pacific connected the new "railroad" town of Cheyenne to Denver and its Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company railroad line in...
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  • Erie Railroad. November 19 – The Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company incorporated. December 1 – Skjærdalen and Tyristrand are connected on the...
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    Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and also in Texas through subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Railway, Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and Burlington-Rock Island...
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    David Moffat (category Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad)
    rail network. The company was incorporated on November 19, 1867, as the "Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company". The company broke ground on its...
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  • Bighorn Divide and Wyoming Railroad (BDW) BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through subsidiary Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad...
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    District Railway Denver City Cable Railway Denver City Traction Company Denver City Tramway Company Denver Consolidated Tramway Company Denver Electric and Cable...
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    in 1909, consisting of the Western Pacific Railway, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Wabash Railroad. Beyond Toledo, the...
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    Bela M. Hughes (category Politicians from Denver)
    2023) capital in one week. On November 29, 1867, the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company was incorporated under the general laws of the Territory...
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    of the Denver and Salt Lake Railway History of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company History of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad...
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    111 Denver & Rio Grande Western Coach No. 284 Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway Post Office Car No. 60 Union Pacific Coach No. 5442 Union Pacific Diner...
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  • 1860s and 1870s, the telegraph expanded rapidly westward, connecting cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, and San Francisco. By the 1880s, telegraph lines...
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    of Clublink, and operated by the Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company (in Alaska), the British Columbia Yukon Railway Company (in British...
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    mostly the former roadbed of the Denver, Northwestern, and Pacific Railway, that later became the Denver and Salt Lake Railway. This high-altitude railroad...
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    of the South. Heading west in 1867, Palmer helped build the Kansas Pacific Railway. He befriended a young English doctor, Dr. William Abraham Bell, who...
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    Denver (/ˈdɛnvər/ DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715...
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    would have extended onward to Keystone, Colorado, and a junction with the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad. Work on the project stopped in 1911, by...
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    railroads such as the Kansas Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company and the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. The expansion of these...
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    moved to Denver in 1862. He practiced as an attorney in the city and was the first president of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company. In 1875...
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  • 1983 in rail transport (category CS1 maint: date and year)
    shifted off the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The entire Kowloon–Canton Railway (now East Rail line)...
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    Steamtown, U.S.A. (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    equipment. Among the injured were the Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1293 and the Meadow River Lumber Company No. 1 Shay (shown in the infobox). When asked...
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    Utah, and the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Golden Spike Chapter regarding building usage and ownership of the locomotive. Denver & Rio Grande...
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    A Life with Steam and Steel, p. 243, Intermountain Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Denver, Colorado, 1967. "Railway Excursion Centennial...
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    transcontinental railroad. On August 16, 1856, Mr. Denver of the House Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraph reported that: "the necessity that exists...
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