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    The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande...
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    Railway and the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad. The railroad's one station and around half of its route is located within the Cripple Creek Historic District...
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    Railway and Realty Company Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Fort Collins Municipal Railway Grand Junction Electric Railway Grand Junction and Grand River...
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    Wetmore, and the northern terminus is at U.S. Route 85 (US 85) in Sedalia. It traverses the former route of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad through...
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    Phantom Canyon (Pikes Peak Area) (category Canyons and gorges of Colorado)
    Eight Mile Creek. The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad developed it as a route to take gold and supplies in and out of the Cripple Creek and Victor gold...
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    Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1895. It was purchased by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) in 1917 and later...
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  • Thumbnail for Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway
    The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railroad operating in the U.S. state of Colorado...
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  • Railway Evansville, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Florida East Coast Railway...
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  • Eben Smith (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
    decided to build a railroad from Florence to Cripple Creek to ship ore to the mills in Florence. The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad was incorporated...
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    railroads in Colorado included the Rio Grande Southern, the Denver, South Park and Pacific, the Colorado Central, and the Florence and Cripple Creek....
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    Midland Terminal Railway (category Switching and terminal railroads)
    a short line terminal railroad running from the Colorado Midland Railway near Divide to Cripple Creek, Colorado. The railroad made its last run in February...
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    two mail cars, and 78 freight cars from the dismantled Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad were obtained for the bargain price of $22,750. In 1917,...
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  • with the closure of the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad. Altman - Founded in 1893 at 10,620 feet elevation between Bull Hill and Bull Cliff, near the Pharmacist...
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    an HO model Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad caboose to full size. The Midwest Central has two Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) boxcars...
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    Cripple Creek is a statutory city that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,155 at the 2020 United...
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    Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad. The result has been described as a standard gauge railroad built to...
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    was owned by the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad as No. 3. It was then bought by D&RG and became No. 425 and, after the railroad was reorganized into...
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  • Thumbnail for Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad
    The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 64 miles (103 km)...
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    Cripple Creek Victor Colorado City Idaho Springs Denver Durango Telluride The Colorado Labor Wars were a series of labor strikes in 1903 and 1904 in the...
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  • narrow-gauge railroad passage for the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad to carry gold mined in the region. The bridge and track were abandoned in 1912 and the...
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    Uintah Railway (category Defunct Colorado railroads)
    Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad at what became known as Mack, Colorado. Twenty-eight miles of track was laid following West Salt Wash Creek upstream...
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    was originally the route of a railroad that connected Florence and Cripple Creek. The route contains many narrow roads and high wooden bridges. The road...
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  • The Carson and Colorado Railway was a U.S. 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad that ran from Mound House, Nevada, to Keeler, California, below the Cerro...
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    with three railroads including a small railroad depot for the trains that hauled coal from the neighboring towns of Rockvale and Coal Creek. After a small...
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    History of the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad 1893–1920 History of the Georgetown Loop 1884–1938 and 1984– History of the Gilpin Railroad 1887–1917 History...
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  • Arizona and New Mexico Railway, Bingham and Garfield Railway, Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad, Lehigh and New England Railroad, Missouri and North Arkansas...
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  • The steam locomotives and rolling stock used on the line were acquired second-hand from the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad in Colorado, which had...
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    gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These narrow-gauge lines were easier to build than standard gauge and cost...
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    Quebec and Ontario. On 4 April 1899 in London, Ontario, she married Leland Laflin Summers, consulting engineer of the Florence and Cripple Creek railroad company...
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    English language and no family on the continent beyond his brother, he started his journey west. Around 1890 Florence arrived in Cripple Creek, CO to find...
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