Wagon Wheel Gap Route

and the

Denver & Rio Grande Railway

Books & Railroad Stuff

To find out more about the Wagon Wheel Gap and the South Fork to Creede line, here is a book we recommend-

-The Rio Grande's La Veta Pass Route        By Stephen Rasmussen - Published by Evergreen Press       (Good book with great valley pictures)

 * THE RIO GRANDE'S LA VETA PASS ROUTE: Gateway to the San Luis Valley
By Stephen Rasmussen. Colorado's La Veta Pass is one of the most remote places in the state. High in the Sangre De Cristo mountains, it is a wilderness populated by mountain lions, bears, and also trains. Built in 1899 as a standard gauge alternative to the narrow gauge line over Veta Pass, the La Veta Pass route of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway extends from Pueblo to Creede, running through Alamosa and the fertile San Luis Valley. The railroad allowed San Luis Valley agriculture to thrive, and the Valley remains an important food producer to this day. Other important commodities have included silver (and the miners who flocked to retrieve it), lumber, livestock, minerals and malt for Coors beer.
304 pages, 400 photographs, maps, timetables, locomotive diagrams and documents, hardbound.
 

-Trails Among The Columbine (1988)         by Sundance Publications             (84 pages of great coverage)

-Colorado Rail Annual (Vol. 14)                    by Colorado Railroad Museum      (Many pages of great coverage)

- Colorado's Loneliest Railroad, The San Luis Southern  by P. R. "Bob" Griswold.      Published by Pruitt Publishing Company of Boulder, Colorado and copyrighted in 1980.

These books are available at most Colorado Bookstores, also at the Colorado Railroad Museum

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Web Site E-Mail Address is Wagon-Wheel-Gap@hotmail.com

Also see our History of San Luis Valley Railroads web site:

Wagon-Wheel-Gap.freehomepage.com

It's still under construction but you may find it interesting.

This is not an official web site of the D&RG Ry. Historical Foundation. 

It is a private informational site by Richard Cutter who is solely responsible for content and is not submitted to, approved or controlled by the D&RG Historical Foundation.

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Historical Photographs 1800's to 1940's from the National Archives

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   - Photos can be used for non-commercial use if plainly identified as to copyright holder and location "at Wagon-Wheel-Gap-Route, Colorado"

The name "Wagon Wheel Gap Route" refers to the section of the Creede Branch of the Old "Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad" that extends from South Fork to Creede Colorado, the name was developed and used for this website and is considered as our trademark.

Last updated: July 01, 2005

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