Railroads (if you can call them that)
One of the most famous Colorado railroads to ever exists and was by far the longest (1871-1997)?
What is the Denver & Rio Grande or Denver & Rio Grande Western?
The day that the Rio Grande Southern started to get all their locomotives stuck in the snow?
March 3rd, 1938
The Gilpin Tramway's second locomotive (must be type of locomotive and class or name)
What is Class B Shay, "Russell"
The city where the D&RG, D,SP,&P, CC, D&NO, and many other railroads started or went to
What is Denver, Colorado
A type of spark arrestor commonly seen on C&S locomotives, but some examples have made it to the D&RGW. There's a town that both the RGS and D&RGW went to that had the same name as it.
What is the Ridgeway Spark Arrestor
Was important in hauling uranium ore in the 1940s, but could never recover after the 1893 silver panic?
What is the Rio Grande Southern railroad?
A tactic that may have been in use on the ______ _______ in which a man rides down on two cars, only controlling them with their handbrakes?
Gilpin tramway
Perhaps the biggest locomotives to ever run on the 3ft in Colorado, and the United States (must include railroad and wheel arrangement/type)
What are the Uintah 2-6-6-2 Mallets
The area just before the Highline on the famed Silverton Branch
What is the Rockwood Cut?
What is an outside frame locomotive
A few of a kind in Colorado, known to have steep grades and a special type of dual gauge
What is the Gilpin Tramway?
An event held every Friday at the Burnham shops in Denver where they would ____ ______
Burn boxcars
The most owned class of locomotive on the D&RG/D&RGW (must say Whyte code and class)
What are 2-8-0 Class 60/C-16
The city where the Gilpin Tramway and Colorado Central, later Colorado & Southern, interchanged
What is Black Hawk, Colorado
Known for a few famous examples on the Rio Grande Southern, the Denver & New Orleans has over 200 of these, and 1 of 3 locomotives from a class sits on display on one of these.
What is a bridge?
Was the second railroad to go up the famed 'Switzerland Trail' and was the first railroad to own C&S 74
What is the Colorado & Northwestern railroad?
A failed experiment on the C&S's Falcon Branch (ex-Denver & New Orleans) in which they tried to send a doodlebug up the Hilltop Grade outside of Parker, where the Doodlebug promptly ______.
Stalled
Known to be on two railroads and was in a few movies. It survives today and is still a fairly new locomotive.
Rio Grande Southern (or Florence & Cripple Creek) #20
Started off as a logging town, switched to ranching, and is still around after the railroad left in 1936/37
What is Elizabeth, Colorado
A covering on major mountain passes that protected railroads from snow. These would sometimes house full Wyes, turntables, and even depots.
What is a Snowshed
Was one of the three railroads that left Silverton, CO and went almost straight North, to around Gladstone, CO?
What is the Silverton, Gladstone, & Northerly Railroad?
Switchback
The locomotive that was owned by these railroads
Colorado & Northwestern (C&N)(1898-1910ish)
Denver, Boulder, & Western (C,B,&W)(1910ish-1919)
Colorado & Southern (C&S)(1919-????)
Rio Grande Southern (RGS)(????-1953)
(Must be railroad and its number on that railroad)
Colorado & Northwestern #30
Denver, Boulder, & Western #30
Colorado & Southern #74
Rio Grande Southern #74
One of the more famous towns at the end of a branch line on a Colorado railroad
What is Silverton, Colorado
The D&RG/D&RGW narrow gauge had only two of these. The Colorado Midland, Denver & Salt Lake, and other railroads had quite a few however
What is a tunnel