The Fort Collins Municipal Railway Car No. 22 is a
streetcar listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places.
Since 1995, the car has been located in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since ...
.
The car was built for use in
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado
Larimer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 359 ...
, by the
American Car Company of St. Louis in 1919 and was used until 1951, when the streetcar service in Fort Collins was abandoned. It is a type of streetcar known as a
Birney "Safety Car". The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club purchased it in 1953 and moved it to Denver.
After five years in storage, car 22 was moved to the
Colorado Railroad Museum in 1958
and put on display there.
In 1994, the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club began leasing No. 22 to the Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation (PPHSRF), in Colorado Springs, and the car was moved there in 1995.
When the 10-year lease expired, the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club agreed to sell the streetcar to the PPHSRF, which has a short section of operational streetcar line. In 2007, PPHSRF, now doing business under the name of the former
Colorado Springs & Interurban Railway (CS&IR), changed No. 22's current identity by giving it a new paint scheme and renumbering it as CS&IR No. 135.
Car 135, ex-Fort Collins 22, is one of two preserved Fort Collins streetcars listed on the National Register. The other is
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21 is a streetcar (or trolley) in Fort Collins, Colorado, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1919 by the American Car Company for the Fort Collins Municip ...
.
A third Birney-type streetcar listed on the National Register is
Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224
Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224 is a streetcar (or trolley) in Fort Smith, Arkansas, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1926 by the American Car Company division of the J. G. Brill Company, it is a type of streetc ...
, in
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado
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Streetcars in North America
Streetcars or trolley(car)s (North American English for the European word ''tram'') were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns. Most of the original urban streetcar systems were either dismantled in ...
References
External links
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Railway vehicles on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
Colorado State Register of Historic Properties
Buildings and structures in Colorado Springs, Colorado
History of Fort Collins, Colorado
Streetcars in Colorado
Transportation in Fort Collins, Colorado
National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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