Denver and Interurban Railroad

v t e Denver and Interurban Railroad
Legend
The Kite Route
Boulder University Boulder Junction Marshall Eldorado Springs Weiserhorn Lake Fairview Monarch Louisville Superior Webb Louisville Junction D and I Junction Burns Junction Broomfield Church's Standley Lake Barzoi Semper College Hill Westminster Dewey Globeville Denver Union Station ( after 1922 ) Denver–Interurban Loop ( until 1922 )

The Denver and Interurban Railroad was an interurban railway company. It was a subsidiary of the Colorado and Southern Railway with lines running between Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Service began on June 23, 1908.^[1] It employed an odd 11,000 Volt alternating current Westinghouse railway electrification system. Cars carried redundant direct current controls for operation on local streetcar tracks at its endpoints.^[2] Some trackage was dual gauged to allow narrow gauge Denver, Boulder and Western Railroad access to Denver.^[3] The company's lines in Denver terminated at the interurban loop at 17th and Arapahoe.

The company entered receivership in 1918 and were forced to divest from their operations in Fort Collins. Interurban service continued and the company would go on to exit receivership in 1921.^[4] The Burlington Northern tracks between Modern and Denver were electrified in 1922, so Interurban cars were rerouted to terminate at Denver Union Station starting on September 24, 1922.^[5] Ridership continued to drop, and the railway entered receivership again in 1926, ceasing operations for good on its Boulder line that December.^[6]