WORLD PREMIER
CERA’s February 13, 2026 Zoom Presentation
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Meeting Number 814 9251 7167 Passcode 880028
Zoom Presentation
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Harvey Laner
The Denver Tramway
To many, the Denver Tramway remains something of a mystery among
American streetcar systems. Puzzling, mysterious and in a way difficult to
make sense of. It was built on a 42-inch gauge. It even had some
streetcars numbered as decimals. And its name had “Tramway” in it which
is odd in a country where the European term for streetcars is hardly ever
used.
At the height of streetcar operations, Denver Tramway owned more than
160 miles of track and operated over 250 streetcars, most built by Woeber
Carriage Company. Hardly a St Louis Car Company or JG Brill streetcar to
be found. Another Denver oddity.
With movie clips on hand from various railfan collections, the search was
underway for first-person knowledge some seventy-five years after the last
streetcar had run in Denver. That knowledge came from John Cox, a
native Denverite, and the son of Thurston D. Cox, Denver Tramways
Superintendent of Transportation at the time of his retirement in 1971.
This program combines the collaboration of Harvey Laner and John Cox
through historic films and photographs with lively conversational narration
to provide a thorough, comprehensive overview of America’s fascinating
mile-high streetcar system.
There will also be a short In The News program preceding the regular program.
This program is open to all CERA members, their guests and the public.
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