First published in 1912 (though this is the 1913 edition), this wonderful booklet was issued at the height of the Colorado & Southern’s narrow-gauge empire in Colorado. While most other Colorado booklets presented here were written by railroads that took people to the edge of Colorado’s mountains, the Colorado & Southern in 1913 took people into the heart of the mountains over several routes. This booklet combines words and photos to describe those routes.
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After a brief introduction, the booklet is divided into seven chapters: Georgetown, Platte Canyon to Como, Mount Morrison, Pike’s Peak, the plains north of Denver, Cripple Creek, the Switzerland Trail (narrow-gauge routes west of Boulder), and Estes Park. At the time, the C&S owned or leased the lines to Georgetown, the Platte Canyon, Colorado Springs (giving access to Pike’s Peak), Cripple Creek, and the Switzerland Trail. Mount Morrison was accessed by a funicular railway that operated from 1909 to 1914 and was accessed by a C&S branch to Morrison. The “plains cities” north of Denver — Boulder, Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont, Fort Collins, Greeley, and Windsor — were all accessed by a C&S line to Cheyenne. Estes Park was accessed by the Colorado & Southern line to Loveland, and a motor coach trip from there.
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Colorado’s mountains are spectacular, but then, so are the mountains of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, not to mention the Pacific Northwest, Sierra Nevada, and the very different mountains in Arizona and New Mexico. Yet Colorado’s mountains were emphasized by more railroad booklets, including ones from the Burlington (which owned C&S in 1913), Milwaukee Road, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, and Union Pacific, that most of these other mountain ranges put together. That’s probably because the significant amount of mining in Colorado led to the construction of railroads deep into the heart of the mountains, making accessible a wide variety of scenic journeys that could only be duplicated with arduous hiking or horseback trips in other states.
The writing in this booklet is as colorful as Colorado itself. The Cripple Creek Short Line is described as “a perfect phenomenon of engineering perfection” whose “route is filled to repletion with picturesqueness.” With respect to Red Rocks Park, near Morrison, the booklet says, “Geologically, there is no more interesting ground on the continent.” The Grand Canyon would beg to differ.