HawkinsRails Pikes Peak Cog Scrapbook

Number	Builder	Mode	Type	Built	Notes
1	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1890	at Colorado Railroad Museum
2	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1890	on display Manitou Springs, Co
3	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1890	scrapped for parts
4 (1)	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1892	wrecked 1896, scrapped for parts
4 (2)	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1897	at Grand Canyon Railway
5	Baldwin	steam	0-4-2T	1901	at Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, Co
6	Baldwin	steam	0-6-0T	1906	scrapped 1955
7	Col Midland	gasoline	railcar	1938	at Colorado Railroad Museum
8	GE	diesel-electric	railcar	1939	at Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Co
9	GE	diesel-electric	trainset	1946	at Colorado Railroad Museum
10	GE	diesel-electric	trainset	1950	rebuilt as snowplow
11	GE	diesel-electric	trainset	1950	sold to Garden of the Gods park
12	Pikes Peak	diesel-electric	railcar	1955	rebuilt to workcar #23, 1982
14	Swiss Loco	diesel-electric	railcar	1963	retired, stored
15	Swiss Loco	diesel-electric	railcar	1963	on display Woodland Park, Co
16	Swiss Loco	diesel-electric	railcar	1968	retired, stored
17	Swiss Loco	diesel-electric	railcar	1968	to Pikes Peak Trolley Museum

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Colorado Railroad Museum receives Manitou & Pikes Peak cars

February 22, 2019

mppc7_inset1 GOLDEN, Colo. – The Colorado Railroad Museum has received three power and passenger cars from the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway, formerly the Manitou & Pike’s Peak Railway. Nos. 7, 9, and 12 were trucked from Manitou Springs to the museum with one car arriving each day Feb. 14-16. The railroad donated the cars, with the museum only having to pay the cost of moving them to Golden. Locomotive No. 9 and passenger coach No. 12 arrived just days after the museum board of trustees approved adding them to the permanent rolling stock collection. Donald Tallman, Colorado Railroad Museum executive director, says, “We were very excited when they offered them to the Museum. They are such an iconic part of Colorado railroad history. We own the first steam locomotive that they used on Pikes Peak. No. 7 was the first self-propelled gas powered railcar, built in 1938 in Colorado. It was so successful, they replaced the steam locomotives with a series of diesel electric powered cars. No. 9 was one of the early diesels that would have been used with passenger coach No. 12, giving us a cool train set from the 1950s. They are all complete and in great condition.”

Tallman says that in the future the cars might be displayed on a hillside at the museum befitting their past as mountain climbing rolling stock and motive power.

The Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway is a cog railway that operates from Manitou Springs, near Colorado Springs, and climbs 8.9-miles up famous Pike’s Peak. The railroad closed in 2017 is beginning a $100 million project to replace track, rack rail, railcars, and to refurbish the existing depot. The railroad is scheduled to reopen in 2021.

Steve Glischinski / TRAINS magazine