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Mail Delivery Along the Railroad
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Mail Delivery Along the Railroad
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Mail Delivery ... And Passengers
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Postmark from Long View, Colorado
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BUT, first some history – Union Pacific Railroad
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Union Pacific Railroad On July 10, 1865, track laying started west from Omaha, Nebraska and was completed to Julesburg, Colorado on June 26, 1867. The railroad was completed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, on June 22, 1870
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Denver Pacific R.P.O. (Railway Post Office)– December 23, 1870 107 Miles to Denver
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Denver Union Depot
The cornerstone for the Union Depot of the Denver and Kansas Pacific railroads was laid on June 24, 1870.
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Stock Certificate Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad First mortgage bond was $1,000 @ 7% John Evans was President.
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Denver and Leadville Agent AGT. 1881-1883
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Denver and Leadville Agent (AGT). 1881-1883
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Buena Vista, Colorado – July 15, 1880; Post Office operated September 18, 1879 to present
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Como & Gunnison, R.P.O., 1884-1887
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Como & Gunnison, R.P.O., 1884-1887
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Denver & Leadville & Gunnison RPO, 1889-1898 RR Sold to Colorado &Southern , November 1898, 151 Miles Special Delivery Mailed from Buffalo Creek to Denver
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Denver & Leadville R.P.O., 1889-1898
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Platte Canyon, Colorado, Jan 21, 1884 Post Office operated March 11, 1881 to May 21, 1893 (Waterton, today)
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Platte Canyon, Colorado, Jan 21, 1884
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South Platte, Colorado - July 11, 1916 Post Office operated January 31, 1899 to September 15, 1937
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South Platte Hotel – looking east
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South Platte Hotel and Depot – looking west
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Bridge crossing South Platte River near Strontia Springs
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Strontia Springs Resort
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Dome Rock, Colorado, April 10, 1910 Post Office operated June 25, 1907 to April 4, 1911 Post Office moved to Long View
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Colorado & Southern train at Dome Rock
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Bridge to Picnic Grove
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Colorado & Southern Train in South Platte Canyon
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Dome Rock, Colorado – Post Office moved to Long View, April 1911
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Dome Rock, Colorado – Post Office moved to Long View, April 1911
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Bridge to Picnic Grove
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Post Office moved to Long View from Dome Rock Long View Post Office - April 4, 1911 to Sept 15, 1937
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Near Dome Rock and Long View Real Photo Post Cards
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Long View, Colorado – (express mail car) Real Photo Post Cards – here comes the mail
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Children taking the train from Littleton – Card mailed from Long View
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Near Long View, Colorado Real Photo Post Card – Fishing on the South Platte
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Long View, Colorado – Real Photo Post Cards – Summer Cabins & Campground
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Long View, Colorado – Summer Cabins & Campground
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Long View, Colorado – Summer Cabins & Campground
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“...Please keep a red ribbon on the leg of my chicken. It might be about the right size when I get back.”
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Long View, Colorado – Real Photo Post Cards – Summer Cabins & Campground
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Near Long View, Colorado – Real Photo Post Cards
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Long View, Colorado – Real Photo Post Cards
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Denver & Leadville R.P.O. West - March 7, 1911 R.P.O. operated from 1901until discontinued in1917 Restablished in 1931 and used for the last time on December 11, 1936
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Denver & Leadville R.P.O. West - March 7, 1911
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Buffalo Creek, Colorado - 1897
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Denver South Park and Pacific - 1889
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Denver & Como R.P.O. West – May 17, 1922 R.P.O. operated 1917 to 1931 Replaces Denver & Leadville R.P.O.
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Denver & Como R.P.O. West – May 17, 1922
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Insmont, Colorado, August 21, 1915 Post Office operated June 5, 1902 to December 15, 1917
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Insmont, Colorado, August 21, 1915
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Insmont, Colorado
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Shawnee, Colorado, Depot
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Chase, Colorado, November 13, 1909 Post Office operated July 15, 1892 to October 31, 1911
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Chase, Colorado, November 13, 1909 Lake View Lodge, Country Home of C.F. Weller
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Cassells, Colorado – August 8, 1909 Wavy 5-bar Cancel Post Office operated June 19, 1899 to September 30. 1929
Santa Maria resort; today is YMCA camp
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Cassells, Colorado – August 8, 1909
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Webster, Colorado - November 29, 1883 Post Office operated May 7, 1877 to May 31, 1904
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Webster, Colorado - November 29, 1883 Train above Webster
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Como, Colorado – May 10, 1883 Post Office operated July 23, 1879 to August 31, 1963; converted to a branch of Fairplay to present
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Como, Colorado – May 10, 1883
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Como, Colorado D.S.P. & P. Depot & Freight Office
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Como, Colorado – Hotel Depot and Freight Office at right
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Boreas, Colorado – April 27, 1901 Post Office operated from January 2, 1896 to January 31, 1905 Depot was located in the snow shed
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Farnham, Summit County – February 25, 1894 Post Office operated December 2, 1881 to November 2, 1895
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Breckenridge, Colorado – November 4, 1884 Post Office operated 1861 to present
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Colorado & Southern Depot, Breckenridge, Colorado
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Beyond Park County Toward the Alpine Tunnel and Gunnison
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Divide, Chaffee County – April 18, 1883 Post Office operated June 24, 1874 to August 19, 1885 Name changed to Newett, Colorado.
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Divide, Chaffee County – April 18, 1883
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Newett, Chaffee County – November 13, 1906 Post Office Operated April 30, 1905 to August 10, 1918
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Saunders Cañon, Colorado From Trout Creek Pass
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Hortense, Colorado – March 3, 1880 Post Office operated May 11, 1877 to June 20, 1884
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Hortense, Colorado – March 3, 1880
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Alpine, Colorado – July 5, 1876 Post Office operated October 26, 1874 to June 30, 1904
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Alpine, Colorado – July 5, 1876
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St. Elmo, Colorado – June 16, 1883 Post Office operated June 23, 1880 to October 15, 1952
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St. Elmo, Colorado - X shows Mary Murphy Mine, two miles up canyon
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Hancock, Colorado – June 6, 1881 D.S.P. & P.R.R. railroad envelope Post Office operated September 10, 1880 to June 24, 1887
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Woodstock, Colorado – October 23, 1881 Post Office operated August 5, 1881 to May 9, 1882
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Hancock, Colorado – (front of postal card from Woodstock)
Cancelled at Hancock, October 24, 1881 after going through Alpine Tunnel
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Woodstock, Colorado – October 23, 1881
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East Portal of Alpine Tunnel Train Going East
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Gunnison, Colorado – May 1, 1883 Post Office operated October 2, 1876 to present
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Abandoned Narrow Gauge – “South Park” Route possible approach to east portal Alpine Tunnel
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“No Beginning and No End ...” Lost R.R. Station of Alpine
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NEXT A Few Short Subjects
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Special friend, Jim Ozment, September 16, 1989
On the Private Car, “Kansas” at Denver Union Station
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John Evans, Founder and First President, Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad
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Byers-Evans House Museum, 13th & Bannock, Denver
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Byers-Evans House Museum, 13th & Bannock, Denver
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