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The Great Western Railway of Colorado (reporting mark GWR) operates about 80 miles (129 km) of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway. It is currently a subsidiary of OmniTRAX but was founded in 1902 to serve the Great Western Sugar Company and other sugar beet and molasses companies in ...
Grand River Valley Railway. Greeley and Denver Railroad. Manitou Incline Railway. Metropolitan Railway. Midland Terminal Railway. Pueblo and Suburban Traction and Lighting Company. Southern Colorado Power and Railway Company. South Denver Cable Railway. Trinidad Electric Transmission, Railway and Gas Company.
America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San ...
The Colorado Department of Transportation purchased the line from UP in 1998 for $10.2 million in hopes of finding a short-line operator to serve farmers and others in small towns along the route. [4] In 2000, CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. [5]
The Colorado and Southern 3-ft-gauge lines were formed in 1898 from the Colorado Central and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroads.The narrow gauge operations had four distinct portions: the Platte Canyon Line from Denver to Como, the Gunnison Line from Como to Gunnison via Alpine Tunnel, Highline between Como and Leadville, and the Clear Creek rail line from Denver to Silver Plume.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad.
Goble, Nehalem and Pacific Railway: 1902 1922 N/A Great Northern Railway: GN GN 1927 1970 Burlington Northern Inc. Great Southern Railroad: 1904 1933 The Dalles and Southern Railroad: Great Western Railway of Colorado: GWR 1986 1987 Great Western Railway of Oregon: Great Western Railway of Oregon: GWR 1987 1997 Lake County Railroad
This railway was of 1' 11½" gauge and was taken over on 13 April 1883. It was later converted to standard gauge as the extension of the new Bala & Festiniog Railway after purchase by the Great Western Railway. Two locomotives were taken over, both being built by Manning Wardle. 1 Manning Wardle Wks No 259, 0-4-2ST, built 1868.