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The Denver & Rio Grande Railway (D&RG) was incorporated on October 27, 1870, by General William Jackson Palmer (1836–1909), and a board of four directors. It was originally announced that the new 3 ft (914 mm) railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated 875 miles (1,408 km) south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the ...
The following rail lines have been owned or operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad or its predecessors.. Denver-Pueblo Joint Line: Denver (Union Station) to Pueblo
Construction began on a new low-grade line west of the summit in 1912, when the D&RG added a track between Detour (the west end of the realignment) and Thistle. The new line, with a double hairpin curve , was completed the next year, as was a second track between Kyune and Castle Gate, completing a double-track line between Thistle and Helper ...
By 1902 the timber harvest was finished, and the track materials were removed for re-use at Lumberton, New Mexico: In 1902 The Burns-Biggs Lumber Company started to build the Rio Grande Southwestern, eventually a 40-mile line from Lumberton south to El Vado and Gallina, New Mexico with multiple branches, including 20 miles south as far as ...
The Rio Grande Zephyr was a passenger train operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW or Rio Grande) between Denver, Colorado and Ogden, Utah from 1970 until 1983.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 is a class of 2-8-2 "Mikado" type narrow-gauge steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.They were new steam locomotives built in the D&RGW Burnham Shops as a near copy of the Rio Grande class K-36. [3]
Denver and Rio Grande Western No. 315 is a class "C-18" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type narrow-gauge steam locomotive that was originally built for the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1895.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western K-27 is a class of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotives built for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903.