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Streetcar Denver

Even in the modern world one can find evidence of Denver’s once extensive streetcar system.

Railroads played a factor Denver’s population boom and street railways enabled Denver to grow even more outward onto the surrounding prairies. Run by the Denver Tramway Company, Denver’s railway system started in the 1870s as horse-drawn streetcars and progressed into a fully electrified system that, by the 1920s and 1930s, provided service to almost every developed neighborhood in town. At the height of its trolley operations, the tramway owned 160+ miles of track and operated over 250 streetcars.

Automobiles and buses replaced the streetcars and often the rails were paved over, occasionally being exposed by weathering and erosion as the ultimate automobile enemy: the pothole.

Old streetcar rails in potholes on E. Alameda Ave. near S. Emerson St.

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