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You are in the CarrTracks website Picture Gallery. Colorado & Southern, Fort Worth & Denver Train PicturesThe Denver, Texas, and Gulf Railroad acquired rights over the Denver & Rio Grande between Pueblo and Trinidad in 1887. It added the third rail to make the line standard gauge and then began building toward Texline. The Colorado & Southern began as a collection of bankrupt narrow gauge railways in 1898. The C&S came under the control of the CB&Q in 1908 although it continued to operate as a separate company. Around 1910 the C&S acquired control of the Fort Worth and Denver City. Construction of the Fort Worth and Denver City began in north Fort Worth in November 1881 and reached Wichita Falls in September 1882. The line reached Harrold in 1885, Chillicothe in 1886, Amarillo in 1887 and met the Denver, Texas, and Gulf Railroad 30 miles into New Mexico on March 14, 1888. Both the C&S and FW&DC shifted from dispatching trains via telegraph to telephone in 1921. The Fort Worth and Denver City was renamed the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company on August 7, 1951. |
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Until coal fired power plants began operating in Texas, there was very little traffic on this line. With the opening of the Powder River Basin in the early 70s coal traffic to Texas boomed. Locomotives with connecting railroads at Fort Worth were pooled with BN power. During the late 70s and early 80s BN was using SD40s and U30Cs. Pool power off the MKT and Santa Fe was SD40s. SP had SD40s and U33Cs. Lynn, CO |
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