Fort Collins Municipal Railway No. 22

United States historic place


Fort Collins Municipal Railway Car No. 22
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Colorado State Register of Historic Properties

Former Fort Collins streetcar 22, now painted as Colorado Springs No. 135

Location	2333 Steel Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coordinates	38°52′01″N 104°49′53″W / 38.86694°N 104.83139°W / 38.86694; -104.83139
Built	1919
NRHP reference No.	11000901
Added to NRHP	December 15, 2011

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.

The car was built for use in Fort Collins, Colorado, 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.

A third Birney-type streetcar listed on the National Register is Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224, in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

References

^ "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties [for National Register of Historic Places]: 12/12/11 through 12/16/11". National Park Service. December 23, 2011. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
^ Gregory C. Roberts, Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation (February 16, 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Fort Collins Municipal Railway No. 22" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved August 13, 2015.

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