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Colorado Springs - August 2002
   

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Colorado Springs — Trolley Grant

Rail Transit Online, August 2002

The Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation has been promised an $80,000 grant from the Colorado State Historical Fund to continue restoration work on Car 59, built in 1901 by Laclede Car Co. for Colorado Springs.  The foundation must raise another $20,000 to activate the grant, which is due to be paid in October.  The all-volunteer foundation plans to install a two-mile (3.2 km) downtown streetcar loop in about three years, if it can raise the necessary funding, and operate Car 59 and another restored Colorado Springs trolley in circulator service.  “The idea is the streetcars will serve all the entertainment and business points,” foundation Executive Director Howard Noble told The Gazette.  Work on Car 59 has already started, and an estimated $400,000 will be needed to complete the job.  The Historical Fund grant will be used to restore the wheels and axles and to manufacture castings that will replace missing seat frames.  The original streetcar system ceased operation in 1932.

 

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