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Tickets and current schedules are available on the operator's official website at http://www.denvertrolley.org.

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Denver Trolley

DENVER, CO

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Upcoming Events

No ticketed events are currently listed for Denver Trolley. Many heritage operators publish schedules seasonally or run on regular open hours instead of dated events.

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About Denver Trolley

URL on row is incorrect (points to Children's Museum of Denver). Actual Denver Trolley is at denvertrolley.org — see the 'North Platte Valley Trolley' row in this file.

📍 DENVER, CO 80201

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History

The Denver Trolley, long known as the Platte Valley Trolley, is a heritage streetcar line operated by the Denver Tramway Heritage Society that began service on July 1, 1989. It departs from Confluence Park — the meeting of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, the historic spot where Denver itself was founded — and runs south along the west bank of the Platte to Lakewood Gulch. Before 2007 the line continued west on the old interurban short-line tracks of the Denver and Intermountain Railroad all the way to Sheridan Boulevard, until RTD's FasTracks West Corridor light rail, opened in 2013, claimed that route. The operation deliberately recalls the era when streetcars were Denver's primary transportation, and in particular the group of six open 'Seeing Denver' sightseeing cars that worked the city's rails around 1920. Today the trolley's roughly 25-minute narrated tour passes the Children's Museum, the Downtown Aquarium, Empower Field at Mile High, and Elitch Gardens, and the line also runs a football shuttle to Broncos home games and is available for charters.

The Trains

The line is worked by a single distinctive car: a replica of a 1903 J.G. Brill open streetcar, built in 1986 by the Gomaco Trolley Company of Ida Grove, Iowa, and numbered 1977. Its frame and steel components came from a 1924 Melbourne, Australia streetcar. Because the route has no overhead trolley wire, the car is diesel-electric — an on-board Cummins 6BT generator supplies 600 volts DC to four Metropolitan-Vickers traction motors and the car's accessories.