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The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad was a 3-foot narrow gauge railroad founded in 1893 and went bankrupt in 1915[1]. Although, the F&CC Articles of Association was written and signed in 1892. [2]It was built to serve the mines around Cripple Creek, Colorado and move the valuable minerals to Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad standard gauge railroad in Florence, Colorado.

Notable Locomotives include Rio Grande Southern No. 20 and Rio Grande No. 315

Locomotives
Number Type Built Fate
1 2-8-0 1894 Unknown
2 2-8-0 1894 Unknown
3 2-8-0 1895 Operational, Rio Grande No. 315 at the C&TS
4 2-8-0 1895 Scrapped
5 2-8-0 1895 Scrapped
6 2-8-0 1895 Unknown
7 2-8-0 1896 Scrapped
8 2-8-0 1896 On Display, Rio Grande No. 318
9 2-2-8-08-0 1896 Scrapped
10 2-8-0 1896 On Display, Eureka and Nevada #12 at the Nevada Southern Railway Museum
11 2-8-0 1897 Scrapped
12 2-8-0 1897 Scrapped
20 4-6-0 1899 Operation, Rio Grande Southern No. 20
21 4-6-0 1899 Scrapped
22 4-6-0 1900 Scrapped
23 4-6-0 1900 Scrapped
24 4-6-0 1900 Scrapped
51 2-4-4T 1898 Scrapped
52 4-6-0 1898 Unknown
Leased Locomotives (1894 - 1898)
No Road Type
31 D&RG 2-8-0
39 D&RG 2-8-0
41 D&RG* 2-8-0
47 D&RG 2-8-0
50 D&RG 2-8-0
52 D&RG 2-8-0
58 D&RG 2-8-0
63 D&RG 2-8-0
84 D&RG 2-8-0
164 D&RG 4-6-0
173 D&RG 4-6-0
206 D&RG 2-8-0
208 D&RG 2-8-0
209 D&RG 2-8-0
266 D&RG 2-8-0

*No. 41 origin built at St. Louis & Cairo #26, then sold to Santa Fe Southern, then bought by D&RG in 1895

Surviving Rolling Stock includes Boxcar #588 displayed at the Colorado Railroad Museum

A F&CC Link and Pin Coupler resides at the Colorado Railroad Museum

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_and_Cripple_Creek_Railroad
  2. Lewis, Allan C. Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad. Forty Miles to Fortune
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