A Ride on the Cripple Creek and Victor Railroad

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There was also an electric trolley line, as well. 8-)

Mountain Man is referring to the CS&CCD's interurban services in the region. All of the cars were built by Barney & Smith. There were 8 motors...7 were passenger and the eighth was work. The CS&CCD started out as an interurban line before the steam railroad was built...which was furnished exclusively with Barney & Smith passenger cars, AC&F freight cars (aside from ingoldsby dump cars and a Bucyrus steam shovel), and Schenectady locomotives. In other words, it was built using the premium equipment of the day.

The competition for the CS&CCD interurbans were furnished by the F&CC's sister company, the Golden Circle which operated a 4-6-0 identical to RGS #20 and a forney.