Colorado Midland

Colorado Midland Railroad MSS Collection Finding Aid
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COLORADO MIDLAND RAILROAD
MSS 803
Colorado Historical Society
Denver
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May 1984

The Colorado Midland Railroad was incorporated in 1883 and built by John J. Hagerman. It was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Bush Tunnel to Aspen and Grand Junction. Later the line was extended eleven miles west of Grand Junction to New Castle. For a short time the railroad was consolidated with the Aspen Short Line (1893-1897) and with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad owned by the Rio Grande Junction Railway. After the company was sold through the bankruptcy court on May 4, 1897, a new company known as the Colorado Midland Railway took over operation of the railroad. The Colorado Midland Railway, which came, first, under the control of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and later, of the Colorado & Southern Railway and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, again declared bankruptcy April 21, 1917. The Colorado Midland Railway ceased operations in 1918. Segments of the road were then sold to the Midland Terminal Railroad; the balance of the line, mostly west of the Midland Terminal connection at Divide, was abandoned. The line was scrapped in the early 1920s.

	INVENTORY
Box 1
FF 1	Minutes of Board of Directors	10/26/1897-11/15/1912
FF 2	Minutes of Board of Directors	05/31/1917-04/28/1922
FF 3	Inventory of property	02/28/1917
FF 4	Inventory of real estate owned	03/01/1908
FF 5	First mortgage	07/01/1897
FF 6	Financial statements	1908-1910
FF 7	Accounting Department Correspondence	1906
FF 8	Accounting Department Correspondence	1907
FF 9	Accounting Department Correspondence	1908
FF 10	Accounting Department Correspondence	1909
FF 11	Accounting Department Correspondence	01-06/1910
FF 12	Accounting Department Correspondence	07-12/1910
FF 13	Accounting Department Correspondence	1911
FF 14	Accounting Department Correspondence	1912
FF 15	Accounting Department Correspondence	1913
FF 16	Accounting Department Correspondence	1914
FF 17	Accounting Department Correspondence	1915-1918
FF 18	Accounting Department Correspondence	1919-1926
FF 19	Letter Press Copy of ICC Annual Report	1910
FF 20	ICC Annual Reports	1907, 1909, 1910, 1911,1916
FF 20a	Valuation Department-ICC Valuation Map	06/07/1918
FF 21	Valuation Department-ICC letters of pre-inventory information	1913-1917
FF 22	Valuation Department Correspondence	1915
FF 23	Valuation Department Correspondence	1916
FF 24	Valuation Department Correspondence	1917
FF 25	Valuation Department Correspondence	01-05/1918
FF 26	Valuation Department Correspondence	06-12/1918
Box 2
FF 27	Engineering Department Correspondence	12/1909-06/1910
FF 28	Engineering Department Correspondence	07/1910-12/1910
FF 29	Engineering Department Correspondence	1911
FF 30	Engineering Department Correspondence	01/1912-07/1912
FF 31	Engineering Department Correspondence	08/1912-12/1912
FF 32	Engineering Department Correspondence	1913
FF 33	Engineering Department Correspondence	1914
FF 34	Engineering Department Correspondence	1915
FF 35	Engineering Department Correspondence	1916
FF 36	Engineering Department Correspondence	01/1917-07/1917
FF 37	Engineering Department Correspondence	08/1917-12/1917
FF 38	Engineering Department Correspondence	1918
FF 39	Engineering Department Correspondence	1920-1924
FF 40	Engineering Department Correspondence—Notes & data on pump and pumping stations	1915
FF 41	Bridge & Building Department—Depot and Eating House—Arkansas Junction	1900-1901
FF 42	Bridge & Building Department—Depot—Aspen	1903-1904
FF 43	Bridge & Building Department—Relocation of Depot—Cardiff	1907
FF 44	Bridge & Building Department—Depot—Carbondale	1891-1906
FF 45	Bridge & Building Department—Depot—Leadville	1906
FF 46	Bridge & Building Department—Depot—Granite	1898, 1905
FF 47	Bridge & Building Department—Eating House—Minturn
FF 48	Bridge & Building Department—telegraph office and two cottages—Wild Horse	1902
FF 49	Bridge & Building Department—Correspondence—new depot & pavilion—Woodland Park	1903
FF 50	Bridge & Building Department—Requisitions—new depot & pavilion	1903
FF 51	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards—Basalt	07/1901
FF 52	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards—Carbondale	1908
FF 53	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards—Colorado City	190_?
FF 54	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards--Hartsel	1905, 1907
FF 55	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards—Snowmass	1905
FF 56	Bridge & Building Department—stockyards—Spinney
FF 57	Bridge & Building Department—section house and bunk house—Carbondale	1902
FF 58	Bridge & Building Department—addition to ice house—Colorado City	1909
FF 59	Bridge & Building Department—remodeling storehouse—Colorado City	1902
FF 60	Bridge & Building Department—storehouse office—Colorado City	1904
FF 61	Bridge & Building Department—water pump and line—Aspen	1900
FF 62	Bridge & Building Department—water line—Basalt	1903
FF 63	Bridge & Building Department—water tank—Coal Branch	190_?
FF 64	Bridge & Building Department—correspondence—water well—Divide	02/1902-04/1903
FF 65	Bridge & Building Department—requisitions—water well—Divide	02/1902-04/1903
FF 66	Bridge & Building Department—dam—Sellar	1905
FF 67	Bridge & Building Department—county wagon road bridge—Carbondale	1906
FF 68	Bridge & Building Department—renewal bridge # 254—Wheeler	1900
FF 69	Mechanical Department Correspondence	1901-1910
FF 70	Mechanical Department Correspondence	07-08/1917
FF 71	Mechanical Department Correspondence	09-12/1917
FF 72	Mechanical Department Correspondence	01-03/1918
FF 73	Mechanical Department Correspondence	04-06/1918
FF 74	Mechanical Department Correspondence	07-12/1918
FF 75	Mechanical Department Correspondence	1919-1923
FF 76	Mechanical Department Equipment profile book	1909
FF 77	Mechanical Department Equipment record
FF 78	Mechanical Department - statement of equipment condition	1900, 1901, 1902, 1907, 1917
FF 79	Mechanical Department - description of passenger equipment	1900-1910
FF 80	Mechanical Department - drawing of private car #100
FF 81	Mechanical Department - correspondence 5 - new chair cars	1901
FF 82	Mechanical Department - drawing & specification 5 - new chair cars	1901
FF 83	Mechanical Department - correspondence café cars	1902-1904
FF 84	Mechanical Department - correspondence café cars	1905
FF 85	Mechanical Department - correspondence café cars	1906
Box 3
FF 86	Mechanical Department - blue prints & specifications - café cars	1905-1906
FF 87	Mechanical Department - correspondence, drawing & specifications - baggage cars	1907
FF 88	Mechanical Department - specifications 60,000 # truck	1901
FF 89	Mechanical Department - specifications 70,000 # truck 70,000 # coal car
FF 90	Mechanical Department - specifications 80,000 # truck	1901
FF 91	Mechanical Department - specifications 60, 000 # box car	1898
FF 92	Mechanical Department - specifications 36 ft. 60,000 # stock car	1898
FF 93	Mechanical Department - specifications 34 ft. 60,000 # box car with yoke, draw gear	1901
FF 94	Mechanical Department - specifications 80,000 # coal car with yoke, draw gear	1901
FF 95	Mechanical Department -miscellaneous freight car data	1901
FF 96	Mechanical Department - correspondence woodworking machinery	1906-1907
FF 97	Mechanical Department - drawing & specifications - woodworking machinery	1906-1907
FF 98	Mechanical Department - inventory of castings	circa 1909
FF 99	Mechanical Department - correspondence electrification of shop	06-10/1905
FF 100	Mechanical Department - correspondence electrification of shop	11-12/1905
FF 101	Mechanical Department - correspondence electrification of shop	1906-1907
FF 102	Mechanical Department -manufacturers electrification of shop	1905-1907
FF 103	Mechanical Department -acetylene lighting	1906
FF 104	Operating Department receivers circular	05/01/1895
FF 105	Notes for plat of Green Mountain Falls
FF 106	Miscellaneous maps and profile charts
FF 107	Miscellaneous maps	1910-1918
FF 108	Engineers' roster	1918
FF 109	Official roster of officers, equipment & roadway # 1 # 2 # 5 # 6	1902 1902 1903 1904
FF 110	Local passenger tariff # 6	06/29/1915
FF 111	Trip passes	1904, 1915
FF 112	Wage schedules	1896, 1907, 1911
FF 113	Timetables	1887, 1896, 1901, 1902
FF 114	Timetables	1905
FF 115	Timetables	1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
FF 116	Timetables	1917
FF 117	Publications: "Colorado Midland Modelers"	01/1974-10/1976
FF 118	Dust Jack- "Colorado Midland" by Morris Cafky	1965
FF 119	Poem: "The Old Engineers Farewell to Midland and his Engine"
FF 120	Memorandum on history of Colorado Midland by Mr. Suydam
FF 121	Address on Colorado Midland by Percy Hagerman	09/21/1943
FF 122	Bulletin # 36 - "The Colorado Midland" by The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society - photocopy	02/1935
	Publicity Department Material
FF 123	Bull's Eye of the Rockies	1907
FF 124	Cascade Canon	1888
FF 125	Scenes of Midland Railway
FF 126	Midland Premier	1892
FF 127	Cripple Creek, Great Gold Camp
FF 128	Mountain Resorts of Colorado
FF 129	Colorado Resources and Industries
FF 130	Colorado - What to See
FF 131	Excursion Rates and Side Trip Talks
FF 132	A Bird's Eye View of the Rockies
FF 133	California Travelities	1906
FF 134	Colorado Game Laws	1899
FF 135	Colorado, The Playground of the Republic
FF 136	Through "Hell Gate" in the Colorado Rockies
FF 137	Grand Mesa Lakes
FF 138	Facts about the Grand Valley of the Colorado
FF 139	Fur, Fin and Feathers
FF 140	Hills of Colorado
FF 141	Manitou Grand Caverns
FF 142	Panoramic Scenes Along the Midland
FF 143	A Swing Around Pike's Peak	1906
FF 144	Some Bits of Scenery along the Midland
FF 145	Recreation, Camping, Hunting & Fishing
FF 146	Through the Rockies
FF 147	Sights Worth Seeing and Points of Interest	1895
FF 148	Sights and Scenes on the Colorado Midland
FF 149	Wildflower excursions
FF 150	How to Reach the Uintah Indian Reservation
FF 151	In the Famous Ute Pass
Box 4	Train sheets (tube)	1911
Book 5	Surity bond ledger	1900-1904
Book 6	Surity bond ledger	1904-1908
Book 7	Surity bond ledger	1909-1911
Book 8	Record of wrecks	12/15/1912-05/31/1917
Book 9	Record of wrecks	06/01/1917-08/07/1918