Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad Adelaide, Fremont County, Colorado bridge in Phantom Canyon
Overview
Locale
Colorado
Dates of operation
1893–1915
Technical
Track gauge
3 ft (914 mm)
The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the mill towns of Florence and later moved to Cañon City, Colorado, on the banks of the Arkansas River, up steep and narrow Phantom Canyon to the Cripple Creek Mining District, west of Pikes Peak. It was founded in 1893 and went out of business in 1915.
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