Arlene Lanman

Climbing the Mountains on the Colorado Midland (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The goal of this 534 page book was to tell the story of the Colorado Midland/Midland Terminal from the viewpoint of the Chief Engineers. The Book has three main Divisions: (1) 60% dedicated to the 'What, When, Where, and Why' it was formed, (2) 15% dedicated to the 'Who' - the people who financed, controlled and supported the railroad, and (3) 25% dedicated to the 'How' - Engineering aspects of designing and building the railroad. The story presents the viewpoint of Management and how Engineering influenced their decisions. The story includes why the train stopped at the many towns along the way - what the people were doing there and how the stations were named. The book includes 0ver 330 photographs used both within other Colorado Midland historic narratives and several additional photos that were found by the Author, including several maps to further depict the final route and the many alternate survey routes proposed by the Survey Team and Layout Engineers. Nearly all the photos were colorized by the Author to project today's views. Writing the book was a festinating step into the early history of Colorado. The quest was to answer my many questions, including: •Why the CM started with Palmer and the Kansas Pacific •Why Colorado City was chosen as a Division point •Why J.J. Hagerman had a grudge against Palmer and the D&RG •Why the CM hauled load after load of coal and ore and how the ore was refined •Why the D&RG seemed to always get the best route for their roadbed •Which CM President inadvertently build a haunted house •Who were the competition •Why did the CM go to Aspen and took the 'hard way' •What part did Rathbone & Brothers Co. of Liverpool & London play in the routes to Glenwood Springs and Aspen •Who was Henry Wigglesworth and what did he do •What indirect part did the Gould's play in the ownership changes - who was really 'pulling the strings' •How was the route chosen - who said to cross the Continental Divide twice •How were the l

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098383008
• Artikelnr.: 62186051

Autorenporträt

With a huff and a puff of smoke, the steam engine slowly pulled out of the Colorado City Yard and began its trip along Fountain Creek, up Ute Pass and on to Cripple Creek - in prior times the Colorado Midland was on its way to Grand Junction. The engineer pulled the cord and blew the whistle a final time. It was February 6, 1949 when the last passenger train ran on the historic Midland Terminal. I have no recollection of this memorial event; I was three years old. What I do remember is that our home in Old Colorado City was less than three blocks from the abandoned railroad bed and five blocks from the abandoned roundhouse and machine shop. As youth, we "toured" the inside of the abandoned buildings and walked the "line" to nearly the town of Cascade, over the "double-dare" Crystal Park Bridge and through the eight tunnels in Ute Pass. The remainder of the "line" was viewed from my parent's car as they where remembering their past. As a Structural Engineer, I have been captivated by the many engineering feats accomplished by the Colorado Midland's design engineers. Over the last several months I have studied and visited many of the railroad sites and, in doing so, I recalled things that I knew and many things that I did not know were revealed by my study. The emphasis of this book is to tell the story of the Midland from a design engineer's perspective as to what they knew and how they applied the engineering principles that were available during the time of construction, including how they selected the locomotives. In addition I wanted to know the politics of the time and who really owned and directed the Midland. I also studied and have written about why the train stopped at the many towns along the way, what the people were doing there, and how did the stops get their names - This was a festinating step into the past and early history of Colorado as a Territory and then as a State.