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BOREAS PASS commemorates the Colorado & Southern's route between Breckenridge and Como in Colorado's South Park. The Denver South Park & Pacific completed the Boreas Pass tracks in 1882. |
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VANCE JUNCTION Colorado is at the junction of the Rio Grande Southern main line and its 7.4-mile branch to Telluride, Colorado. |
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SILVER PLUME COLORADO depicts Colorado & Southern locomotive no. 68, and the line's logo, at the Silver Plume Depot, the western terminus of the Georgetown Loop Railroad. |
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ROARING CAMP & BIG TREES RAILROAD features its two-truck Shay geared locomotive, the Dixiana, used on the tourist narrow guage line in the redwoods near Felton, CA, south of San Francisco. |
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SILVERTON RR 1889 PASS is a custom belt buckle reproduction of Otto Mears' 1889 solid silver pass for the Silverton Railroad. |
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SILVERTON 1890 PASS key tag is designed after the Mears silver watch chain charm pass good for free rides on the Silverton RR in 1890. |
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SILVERTON 1893 PASS buckle replicates the last of the Mears silver passes. Only three originals of these passes exist. |
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GALLOPING GOOSE celebrates the centennial of the Rio Grande Southern, featuring Goose No. 5 with Lizard Head in the background. |
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CURECANTI NEEDLE highlights the D&RG's logo with Curecanti Needle and locomotive 278 at the head of a freight train in the Gunnison River gorge. |
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MANITOU & PIKES PEAK features its unusual cog wheel locomotive no. 3 pushing its single passenger car to Summit House on top of Pikes Peak. |
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The Remarkable Railroad Passes of Otto Mears - By William K. Strong |
