Cripple Creek Railroads

No story of early Colorado could be written without at least a passing mention of the railroads which plunged into the state's mountain vastness at scores of points. Leland Feitz answers many questions about the railroads of Cripple Creek. Travel now back into a history filled with chuffing steam engines, hardrock miners, construction feats unequaled in railroad annals, and people with a mighty dream and the sheer guts to make it come true.