Cripple Creek, CO - September 2013 - The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad

Cripple Creek, CO - September 2013 - The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad

 http://cripplecreekrailroad.com/

http://www.cripple-creek.co.us/

Yep! Another train, another adventure in Colorado mining.

Cripple Creek is a mining town that is chuck full of museums

and rich in the history of the area. It was inhabited first by

Native Americans, and then came fur trappers, settlers, and 

then miners. From 1890 to 1910, more than 22,400,000 ounces of 

gold were extracted from 500 mines in the Cripple Creek Mining District, 

which included Cripple Creek and the neighboring town of Victor.

In 1976, the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad started taking 

passengers on a journey back into gold rush history and into the scenic heart 

of the Rocky Mountains. With its lovingly restored steam locomotives and 

historic 1894 station house.

Chuff-chuff-chuff

We were able to relive the outlaw days of the Wild West in the Cripple 

Creek Jail Museum. The calendars, art and poetry of the stiffly bored inmates

showed that time in this slammer was bleak, but with some creative spirits.

I took one of the inmates home on a work-release program.

And along the road, the antelope played!