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Colorado’s Historic Railroads: A Journey Through Mountain Rails Past and Present

By Rich Grant
Go World Travel Magazine

It was never easy to build a railroad in Colorado.

As the highest territory in the continental United States, Colorado was filled with an estimated 4,391 mountain peaks, deep river gorges, severe winter snowfalls, droughts, floods, and steep elevation gains, all making the art of building railroads here a difficult – and treacherous – occupation... Read more...

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