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  • Place Types Museum
  • Address Kit Carson, CO 80825, USA
  • Coordinate 38.7622329,-102.7929766
  • Website Unknown
  • Rating 3
  • Compound Code Q664+VR Kit Carson, Colorado, U
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Kansas Pacific Railway well and pump house, Kit Carson, Colorado.
Kansas Pacific Railway well and pump house, Kit Carson, Colorado.
Kansas Pacific Railway well and pump house, Kit Carson, Colorado.
Kansas Pacific Railway well and pump house, Kit Carson, Colorado.
Kansas Pacific Railway well and pump house, Kit Carson, Colorado.
Reviews
Robert McLeod (01/26/2019)
OLDEST RAILROAD STRUCTURE IN COLORADO.nFrom Kit Carson, Colorado, the Kansas Pacific Railway constructed its Arkansas Valley Railway, a branch line terminating at the company-established town of West Las Animas. The well at Kit Carson was located during 1870 after the railroad abandoned its original well site, no water having been found, causing the entire town to be moved to its present location. After the Kansas Pacific was fully established it began replacing many early wood structures with stone ones. A quarry near Ft. Lyon provided the material used in erecting the pump house in the early 1870s.nThe AVRy became the first Colorado railroad to be abandoned (1878). Today, about the only remaining evidence of this railroad's existence are its well and stone pump house, the oldest remaining railroad structure in Colorado.
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