In the early 1900s, President Charles S. Johnson and legal representative Judge John D. Milliken of the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railway Company (DL&NW) wished to reach Seattle, Washington from Denver by rail. Their plan was to run trains from Denver...
On September 15, 1869, the first railroad to enter this state to serve just Colorado Territory was the Denver Pacific. It covered the hundred miles between Cheyenne and Denver, routed through the railroad town of Evans. Track laying began in Cheyenne, crossing the...