In June 1908, when automobiles were a novelty and most roads were unpaved, electric trains shuttled passengers between downtown Boulder and Denver and everywhere in between. Fast, clean and efficient, the popular Boulder-Denver Interurban Railroad connected the cities in 55 minutes and ran 16 times per day.
Forest Crossen, the late railroad historian, first came to Boulder on the interurban and later stated, “It was a lovely Sunday morning, and we came up through Superior and Marshall and then across the University campus. I thought it the most delightful trip I had ever taken.”
Electric trains in and out of Boulder, along with a big chunk of the city’s history, ended in 1926 — nearly a century ago! Even the old stone depot, as jokingly predicted in the 1930s, was put on wheels and moved to more than one location…