Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific

Railway Company

Colorado

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company - Stock certificate dated 1898.

This railroad services the oft-forgotten, vast Eastern Plains of Colorado and into Colorado Springs.  The CRI&P RR was a critical link between Kansas & the East  and Colorado Springs, which was one of only a few gateways into the Colorado Rockies from the east.   The railroad also became important to Eastern Colorado as its other industries, agriculture & ranching,  began to grow and flourish as well as to the many small towns that cropped up along its route.