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  Above: Photo of Titanic Rock
by S.L. White, 2004.
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The Railway to the Peak

Go to: A Ride to the top of Mt. Morrison

Construction of the Mt. Morrison Funicular
from newspaper accounts in the Jefferson County Graphic

"Manley Sawyer and Tom Matthews are engaged in hauling rails to the Mt. Morrison Incline railroad this week"

May 30, 1908; Jefferson Co. Graphic

"Over 25 men are now employed on the Mt. Morrison Incline railroad and the work is being rapidly pushed toward completion. About 1000 feet of the road grade is complete, ready for the rails and ties, and a few feet of tracks has already been laid. The roadbed for the remainder of the distance is partially graded. One cannot imagine the enormity of such an undertaking without viewing the scene of operations and it is well worth your while to take a walk over the steep incline, which is to become one of Colorado's greatest achievements in railroad engineering."

June 30, 1908; Jefferson Co. Graphic

"A 125 horse power boiler and an engine of the same capacity are now on the ground, ready to be placed for the Mt. Morrison Incline railroad."

July 11, 1908, Jefferson Co. Graphic

"The last of the machinery for the Mt. Morrison Incline Railway arrived last week.... Not until the road is completed will people understand the enormity of the undertaking, or the great importance of the new attraction to Morrison."

August 15, 1908, Jefferson Co. Graphic



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