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The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum. The museum is located on 15 acres (6.1 ha) at a point where Clear Creek flows between North and South Table Mountains in Golden, Colorado. The museum was established in 1959 to preserve a record of Colorado 's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow-gauge ...
Map of D&RGW and WP routes (c. 1914). The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado, in 1870.
Otto Perry (1894–1970) was an American photographer and railfan specializing in railroad photos. Perry worked as a mailman in Denver, Colorado, where he met and became friends with Louis McClure, another noted photographer. [1] By the time Perry died, his collection contained more than 20,000 photos, from all parts of North America.
This list of museums in the U.S. State of Colorado identifies museums (defined for this context as institutions including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Donated to the museum in 2018. CO-19 West Side Lumber Company #12 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-20 West Side Lumber Company #14 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-21 Royal Gorge 40 2-8-0 1921 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in ...
268 spent most of its working life around Gunnison, Colorado, with an early photograph showing it in helper service on the mainline to Montrose. [7] Other early photographs show the engine in Salida and Alamosa. [9] [10] D&RG 260, 267 and 287 (Class 60, C-16 engines) at the Cimarron, Colorado roundhouse, 1885. (Colorado Railroad Museum collection)
The Colorado and Southern 3-ft-gauge lines were formed in 1898 from the Colorado Central and the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroads.The narrow gauge operations had four distinct portions: the Platte Canyon Line from Denver to Como, the Gunnison Line from Como to Gunnison via Alpine Tunnel, Highline between Como and Leadville, and the Clear Creek rail line from Denver to Silver Plume.
The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is a cog railway that climbs one of the most iconic mountains in the United States, Pikes Peak in Colorado. The base station is in Manitou Springs, near Colorado Springs. Construction on the line was started in 1889 and the first train reached the summit ...