Tag: railroads
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Antitrust suit seeks better prices for farmers | Rachel Gabel
A stack of papers is keeping eastern Colorado and western Kansas farmers out of the lucrative west-coast market and bringing a group together to levy an antitrust suit against the railroads. Stefan Soloviev was an unlikely farmer with his full-sleeve tattoos, big-city upbringing, and a last name that looked very different from the primarily German surnames…
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Our recent winter | Caboose Cobwebs
This month I want to comment on the weather. I read a story in a Cripple Creek newspaper from the mid-1890’s about the weather. I know we never have two winters in a row the same. Many of us “oldtimers” will tell you that, but still you hear dreadful predictions about future storms. This story…
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Our recent winter | Caboose Cobwebs
This month I want to comment on the weather. I read a story in a Cripple Creek newspaper from the mid-1890’s about the weather. I know we never have two winters in a row the same. Many of us “oldtimers” will tell you that, but still you hear dreadful predictions about future storms. This story…
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‘The quirky lovechild of a bicycle and train:’ The railbike revolution is underway in Colorado
They were referred to as “velocipedes,” an early French term for bicycles. They were also called handcars, these people-powered transports that indeed looked very much like bikes atop the tracks in the 19th-century heyday of American railroading. “They were used as maintenance vehicles,” says Robert Harte. “Instead of taking a whole steam engine out ……