Railroads
Heritage Square's railroad, known successively as the Magic Mountain Railroad, High Country Railroad, and Rio Golden Railroad, has been operated by these steam powered locomotives through its existence:
- Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #42 (Baldwin, narrow gauge, 1889) - operated 1959-61
- Lima Shay Locomotive #3118 (Lima, narrow gauge, 1920) - 24 inch gauge,operated 1975-89
- Denver & Rio Golden Locomotive #463 (Ulrich, miniature gauge, 1998) - operated 1998-2006
- Rio Golden #1 (Gas hydraulic drive, weighs 3,000 lbs) - operated 2006–present
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Famous quotes containing the word railroads:
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chiefly regarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“We noticed several other sandy tracts in our voyage; and the course of the Merrimack can be traced from the nearest mountain by its yellow sand-banks, though the river itself is for the most part invisible. Lawsuits, as we hear, have in some cases grown out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking their sod, and so have set the sand to blowing, till it has converted fertile farms into deserts, and the company has had to pay the damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)