Book by Richard H. Kindig, Ronald C. Hill

Union Pacific 8444

Ronald C. Hill

Kindig, R.H.

Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation

For almost 60 years, the Rio Grande railroad and its successor, Southern Pacific, have operated ski specials from Denver. Here is the whole story of how Colorado's billion-dollar ski industry started from passenger trains, and how and why the ski train is still serving today. The authors examine operations and equipment, and review other past and present North American ski trains.

The Ski Train

Kenton, Forrest

Steve Patterson

<p>DESCRIPTION: Soft cover, perfect-bound; about 8½'' x 11"; 272 pages. There are 149 B&amp;W patent drawings and applications and 30 photographs and other illustrations. Colorado businesses today include many high tech industries. It should not be a surprise that cutting edge technology is not new to our state or our time. The needs of the folks immigrating to Colorado during the nineteenth century brought new ideas and solutions to the many problems they encountered. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a saying attributed to Plato but Coloradoans took the saying to heart and invented a variety of devices and processes to help them survive and prosper during the nineteenth century. There were patents for all kinds of devices, railroad, mining, bicycles, agricultural equipment, inventions by women inventors, medical, and others. This book is about those inventions and their inventors.</p>

Colorado Inventions and Inventors of the 19th Century

William Reich

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Books by Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation

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Union Pacific 8444

The Ski Train

Colorado Inventions and Inventors of the 19th Century