Author: JONES, WILLIAM C.; HOLLEY, NOEL T.
Title: The Kite Route: Story of the Denver & Interurban Railroad
Description: Boulder: The Pruett Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0871087219. First edition. Founded in 1904, the Denver & Interurban Railroad Company provided passenger rail service between Denver and Boulder, Colorado until its demise in the early 1930s. The line also carried passengers to Eldorado Springs, Marshall and Louisville, a map of which formed a shape which looked like a kite, thus the name "Kite Route." With dozens of historic black & white photos, as well as maps, schematic drawings of cars, and multiple facsimiles of company documents. With laid-in folded black & white panoramic photo of aftermath of a head-on collision of two D&I trains which resulted in the death of 14 passengers in 1920. --- In gloss red-orange paper-covered boards with spine titling in black. Jacket features one of the line's electrified cars and a representation of the "kite" route map to front panel. --- A clean, bright, newish copy lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket also in great shape, but with retailer's back-panel sticker.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 159 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0871087219 >>Railroads, Aviation & Transportation >>History of Colorado & the Old West