COLORADO MIDLAND RAILROAD
(COLORADO - RAILROAD) Cafky, Morris. COLORADO MIDLAND. Pub. Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1965. Pict. dj. 1st. No. 5617 of 6,000 limited ed. autographed. Timetables on endpapers. 467 pp., frontis., four full-color paintings, maps, photos.
Five folding maps in a pocket affixed to rear fly leaf, depict 1). the system map of the Colorado Midland Railway, 2). the Leadville Mining District, 1905, 3). Aspen and vicinity, 4). East and West approaches to Hagerman Pass, and 5). Map, Profile and Rail chart of the Colorado Midland Railway. In 1921, the Colorado Midland Railway went out of business. It had less than 350 miles of track when it was abandoned, and only 63 locomotives remained on its roster.
“By rights, the Colorado Midland should have been utterly forgotten by this time --- yet, exactly the opposite has occurred. Thanks to its incredible career, the spectacular Rocky Mountain topography it traversed, the very great difficulties of operation, and because it represented the largest abandonment then recorded in American railroad history, a lost cause of impressive dimensions, the memory of the Colorado Midland refused to die.”. Schoppe p. 272.
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