Few states can equal Colorado when it comes to colorful, exciting railroad history, and one of the more absorbing chapters in that story belongs to the Little Book Cliff Railway. For nearly four decades, this unique little narrow gauge that traversed an eleven-mile stretch of high desert between Grand Junction, Colorado and the Book Cliff coal mines, bringing economic growth and stability to the Grand Junction area. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With rosters, maps, schematic diagrams of equipment and buildings, gradient profiles, financial data, chronology, and detailed bibliography. 191 pages with index.

Little Book Cliff Railway: The Life and Times of a Colorado Narrow Gauge

Lyndon J. Lampert

Robert W. McLeod

Business & Money

Pruett Pub. Co

The RGS Story Volume 11 by Russ Collman, Dell A. McCoy and Robert W. McLeod with Several Guest Contributors Durango and the Perins Peak Branch BOOK IS NEW; Sundance Publications Ltd.; first edition, first printing; April 2005; hardbound; about 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 376 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 26 detailed maps; 17 full-color photos; 321 historic black & white views; features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek. ISBN # 0-913582-76-X. CONTENTS: *DURANGO'S FIRST SETTLER *THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE REACHES DURANGO *DURANGO ACQUIRES A TROLLEY *BATTLE FOR THE COAL FIELDS AND THREE-RAIL DAYS *HANDLING THE U.S. MAIL AND RAILFANS ARRIVE ON THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN *THE BOSTON COAL & FUEL COMPANY RAILROAD TO PERINS PEAK THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE Railway's tracklayers reached Durango, Colorado, on July 27, 1881, after spiking steel south and west from Alamosa over Cumbres Pass. With the arrival of the railroad on the scene, gold and silver ore could be shipped inexpensively out of the San Juan mountain region. The D&RG chose this site for a town because of the availability of coal. Smelters sprang into existence almost overnight in the fledgling town and mass quantities of raw ore no longer needed to be shipped to Denver or Pueblo. This book illustrates Durango's development year-by-year as the town progressed and the D&RG upgraded its railroad facilities. Once Otto Mears' Rio Grande Southern arrived on the scene in 1890, additional revenue created a boom as travelers ate, drank and bedded down, as well as shopped in Durango. This growing town was an interchange point between two narrow-gauge railroads and the history of the RGS becomes inseparably entwined at Durango with that of the D&RG--which controlled the RGS throughout most of its existence.

THE R. G. S. STORY. RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN. Volume XI. Durango and the Perins Peak Branch.

Dell A. McCoy

Russ Collman

Sundance Books

Colorado Central Rail Road. Golden, Central City, Georgetown.

Abbott, Dan

Sundance Publications

<p>THREE COMPLETE STORIES COMPRISE THIS ANNUAL. *The 15-mile San Luis Central has faithfully served a rich agricultural district in the San Luis Valley for over a century, owning only three locomotives during its lifetime. Having outlived many more famous lines, its full history is presented here for the first time by John Gruber. *Union Pacific's Greeley branch tapped a rich sugar beet growing area, and its fortunes rose and fell along with the once important Colorado sugar industry. Historian Kenton Forrest gives a complete account of the railroad line and the area it served for many years. *The Arkansas Valley Railway is famous for being the first Colorado railroad abandonment. Author Robert W. McLeod provides a detailed history of the important role it played at the dawn of the Colorado railroad era.</p>

COLORADO RAIL ANNUAL No. 32

John Gruber

Kenton, Forrest

Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, Inc

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