A Ride on the Cripple Creek and Victor Railroad

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I'm a big fan of the Cripple Creek short lines: The Florence & Cripple Creek (3'), The Midland Terminal (SG), and the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District (SG, steam & electric).

There were actually a few depots in Cripple Creek. The tourist line uses the Midland Terminal's ROW (The Midland Terminal was a separate entity from the famed Colorado Midland...until the MT took over the eastern end for the CM after the CM died). The CS&CCD depot was at the corner of Warren and 4th streets. If you draw a line from the MT depot to the CS&CCD, the F&CC depot would be on that same line, twice as far as from the MT as the CS&CCD. The entire district looked like a spaghetti bowl style model railroad. I'd rank the railroads: F&CC > CS&CCD > MT. Maybe some day, again, one of the surviving F&CC engines will once more wear F&CC paint (four locomotives survive, 1 runs, 1 is being restored)

Thanks for posting the photos, Joe!