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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Denver’s Street Railways Volume 2 1901-1950 by Robertson & Cafky LOOSE MAP Denvers Street Railways Volume 2 by Robertson & Cafky 1901-1950 Reign of the Denver Tramway LOOSE MAP Hard cover with plastic covering Copyright 2004 536 Pages Indexed LOOSE MAP TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. The Golden Era Begins, 1900-1905 13 Denver City Tramway in 1901 13 Two Substations Placed on Line 35 Standard-Gauge Dilemma63 A New Line to University Park28 Tramway Acquires New Cars37 A New Streetcar Line64 Myrtle Hill Line Near A Special Chartered Streetcar51 Washington Park Line66 Washington Park 28 Seeing-Denver Tourist Service 51 Tramway’s Four Divisions 67 Denver 8. Northwestern Railroad …. Initial Objective of the D&NW29 Trailers Placed in Service54 New Corporate Offices 77 29Tomlinson Automatic Coupler60 Electric Power Generation31 Two Idle Lines Are Revived61 New Work Cars in Service77 A New Central Powerhouse31 Streetcar Route Extensions 62 East Colfax Avenue Improved 82 2. The Great Expansion, 1905-1911 89 System Still Hungry for Power89 New Madison Street Line 132 New Cars, Trailers and a Sand Pit..160 Tramway Obtains Three Streetcars102 Mystery Line in East Denver133 Tramway Buys the D&IM162 Trolley Car Parties Held on18th Street Line Completed133Denver Hosts Street Railway Tramway 104West 44th Avenue Line Extended …135Convention163 New Electric-Power Substation 107Argo Line Extended & EastNew Cherokee Street Line 164 Funerals By Streetcar109End Rerouted136New Argo Substation Constructed .165 A Noteworthy Event 110Littleton Streetcar Line 136New Washington Park Line 165 New Franchise for Tramway110Line to Globeville 14416th Street Viaduct Extended 167 Proposed 1906 Extensions117Single-Truck Work Cars145Denver & Crown Hill Railway 169 Thirteen New Streetcars 120Cherry Creek Bridges Replaced148New Downtown Dispatcher’s Office170 Thirty-Eight More Streetcars123Tramway Buys D&NW Line148Administration and Car Storage171 Building Franchise Extensions 123Two Lines Receive Single-End Cars148Tramway’s New Downtown Home173 … Relocation of 25th Avenue Line 126 New 11th Avenue Line127Harman Route Extended 157Electromagnetic Track Switches182 Thirteenth Avenue Line132Single-Truck Sweepers Arrive 157More Streetcars and Trailers 184 New Line on East 6th Avenue132Sweepers & Cars 300-324 Arrive158New Box-Motor Switcher Cars188 3. The Weather Strikes, 1912-1915 195 New Streetcar Line to Valverde 195Trackage Opened on 15th Street214New Colfax-Larimer Viaduct220 Additional Improvements Made…….199More Snow Dumped on Denver215Increased Use of Automobiles 223 Great Cherry Creek Flood199New Service to Aurora and Montclair217William Evans Bows Out224 The Tramway’s New Substation 207 Incredible Snowstorm of 1913 209New Tramway Cars and Equipment218Return to Denver Tramway Name …229 The Tramway Grinds to a Halt213Route Changes Made in 1914 219New General Manager 231 4. War and Tragic Strikes, 1916-1920 233 Route Numbers for Tramway 233Tramway’s Trailer Assignments264Cars Trashed on Downtown Street.277 New Route-Numbering System233New Streetcars for Littleton 268Four Cars Overturned on Colfax 279 Tramway Company Publications233Montclair Carhouse is Sold268The Denver Post Building Sacked ..280 Pay-As-You-Enter (PAYE) System ..233The Wages of War270Cars Attacked on 40th Avenue281 New Route Numbered 39 237The Tramway Labor Situation272Streetcars Not Seen Anywhere282 New Storage Yard for Track Dept…246Restlessness in the Ranks272East Division Carhouse Attacked …282 A New Concrete Train 250Unionization of Tramway Workers..273National Guard Called In283 New Type of Transfer 256All is Fare in Denver273Denver Tramway Strike Ends………..283 New Loop at Union Station 259First Strike and City Council274New Tramway Employees Hired ……284 Denver Tramway Work Motors 261Council Votes Down Fare Increase.274Strikers Give Up 285 Denver Tramway’s Sand Car262A Bloody Second Strike274Reflections on Strike’s Causes 286 Tramway Builds Trailer Cars263Tramway Tries to Break Strike 277New Loop on East Colfax Avenue ..288 5. Trolleys and Trailers, 1920-1927 289 Tramway Submarines 761-762 294Fifty New Streetcars Built314Special Car .01 Converted344 Route Changes May 20, 1920 297Conversion to One-Man Operation ..323New Work Cars from Old Cars344 New Sweepers298More Route Changes332Warfare Over Fares349 New Electrical Substations 298A New Color Scheme332 The Alameda Material Yard 30116th Street Viaduct Rebuilt 339Tramway Becomes Corporation350 Safety Cars Built for Fleet 306Still More Route Changes340Denver & South Platte The Last New Streetcar Line310Eighteenth Street Line Eliminated ..340Grinds to Halt 351 The Last of Older Equipment311″Trailer Hounds”341A New Company President351 6. The Buses Roll In, 1928-1946 355 a. The Automobile Takes Over356Trailers: The Final Breath367The Trolley-Coach Option385 South Division Expansion 359Trailer Locations in 1937 369Trolley Coaches Announced388 Duplicated Lines are a Problem 359Salary and Wage Cuts 371Streetcar Route Abandonments ……390 A New Proposal 360Aurora Route Cut Back 372Routes Prepared for New Coaches.392 Major Changes Take Place362Tramway Buses a Mixed Lot375Trolley Coaches Arrive in Denver…393 Another New Bus Route363First Motor Coach Garages 376 Barnum Route Transferred363Cherry Creek Floods Again376Trolley Coaches Begin Operation…394 Great Depression Years 363The Short Life of Route 44 378The Remaining Two-Man Cars403 More Route Changes 364Unionization Takes Place 37835 Two-Man Cars Scrapped 405 Further One-Man Conversions 365Modernization ….381Modernizing the 800-Series Cars ….420 7. The Bells Fade Away, 1945-1950 425 Last Route 50 Streetcars 425Brill Coaches Received 450GM Diesel Buses Arrive 467 Tramway Modernization 427Two More Streetcar Conversions….452More Streetcar Lines Converted 467 Route 28 Streetcars 430Marmon-Herrington Trolley Coaches ..454Route 8 Streetcars 472 Fitzsimon Buses Moved439Route 61 Streetcars 455Route 3 Streetcars 484 Route 64 Streetcars 464 Route 40 Streetcars 440One-Way Streets Designated 462Route 14 Streetcars 488 Route 6 Streetcars 444Tramway Racial Integration464Route 10 Streetcars 494 Timetable for Abandonment451New Tramway President 464Route 72 Streetcars 497 New Electric Substation451Diesel Buses to the Rescue464Route 5 Streetcars 503 INTRODUCTION By Don Robertson DENVER’S STREET RAILWAYS is the fruit of my lifetime interest in the streetcars that ran in and out of the city of Denver, Colorado. My fascination began when I was a child. My paternal grandfather, Howard S. Robertson, was the president of the Denver Tramway Corporation, Denver’s streetcar company. My father, Donald Robertson Sr., was following in his father’s footsteps, and by starting out in the legal department of the company, he became the Tramway’s general attorney. However, instead of going on to become president of the Tramway like his father, he instead became one of the founding members of Denver’s current transit agency, the Regional Transportation District (RTD). As a small child, streetcars were my only real connection with my father. Not being much of a get-down-on-the-floor-and-play-with-the-kid kind of guy, streetcars and trains were our only mutual indulgence. He secretly liked trains, but that was something he would never admit. He used to take me on Sunday automobile rides, and we would spmehow always end up racing alongside a thundering Union Pacific Northern steam locomotive as it headed out of Denver, or driving along an abandoned narrow-gauge right-of-way. My dad also liked to take me with him to his office in the Tramway Building, at 14th and Arapahoe streets, if he had to go there on a Saturday, and I would go downstairs to the carhouse to visit the trolley coaches and streetcars slumbering inside. There always was a kind of a profound stillness there in the darkened caverns of the carhouse. Normally active and filled with people, the quiet streetcars instead were alone and vulnerable. I would check each car to find one with a door that had been left open, and then climb aboard to look around. Other times, Dad would return from work in the evening with a surprise for me, a model bus painted Tramway colors from some Eastern bus company, a picture of a streetcar or a trolley coach, or copies of the Tram Topics Magazine. My love for Denver’s old yellow streetcars was genuine, and I looked forward to every All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. 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