The Fort Worth and Denver Railway, nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on t
The Fort Worth and Denver City's Colorado Special rolls through the Texas Panhandle, 1929.
Fort Worth and Denver Railway
Fort Worth & Denver Alco 2-8-0 No. 304 at the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum
FW&D Engine 501 in Childress, Texas
The Colorado and Southern Railway was an American Class I railroad in the western United States that operated independently from 1898 to 1908, then as part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railro
Fort Worth and Denver Railway
…railroad ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart, to Texline, where it connected with the rails of parent company Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908. At the end of 1970, FW&D operated 1,201 mi (1,933 km) of road on 1,577 mi (2,538…
C&S Steam locomotive #71 1941.
C&S Engine 641, the line's last operating standard-gauge steam locomotive, used on the Climax-Leadville run until 1962. On display in Leadville; photo 2010.
Colorado & Southern Locomotive plows snow from rails, c. 1898-1903 (Park County Local History Digital Archive)
Colorado and Southern railway station, Leadville, Colorado