Switzerland Trail of America by Grossen W-9A

Fascinating and detailed history of two romantic narrow gauge lines running west from Boulder, Colorado: the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific and the Colorado & Northwestern (later the Denver, Boulder & Western). Covers construction, expansion into the mining districts, the tungsten boom, and mile-by-mile description of stations. Includes chapter on Stanley Steamers that provided tourists with transportation as well as F. O. Stanley’s establishment of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. This 1978 edition has an additional chapter on William Arthur Tipps, engineer on the Denver, Boulder & Western, based on interviews with his son, Carl. Packed with black and white photos of the locomotives, stations, towns, and mountains. Cover, frontispiece and four full page color paintings by noted railroad artist Howard Fogg. With maps, ads, and timetables. There are four maps are on two sheets tucked into a rear pocket. With decorative end papers showing timetables. 422 pages with index.