Old Engine No 30.

This memorial plaque, placed in 1952, is just outside my office door. I walk by it every day, and have been especially aware of it since working on my journal entry about the present condition of No30.

OLD ENGINE NO. 30

OPERATED OVER THE NARROW GAUGE

RAILROAD (OPENED IN 1883), AFFEC-

TIONATELY KNOWN AS "THE SWITZERLAND

TRAIL OF AMERICA," BETWEEN BOULDER,

ELDORA, AND WARD, 1898-1919; AND

OVER THE DENVER AND SOUTH PARK AND

THE RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN UNTIL 1952.

A MEMORIAL TO COLORADO RAILROAD

AND MINING PIONEERS.

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ERECTED BY

THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO

FROM THE WM L. BRAIDEN FUND AND BY

THE ARAPAHOE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

1952