Once Silverton got rail service, other short branch lines were constructed radiating from the town. This included the Silverton Railroad, which ran over Red Mountain Pass following today’s U.S. 550.

When he founded his small railroad in 1870, Gen. William Jackson Palmer didn’t plan to make it the most renowned mountain railroad in the country. He simply wanted to connect Denver with Colorado ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In western San Luis Valley near the town of South Fork, passengers can enjoy a unique railroad ...

Narrow-gauge railroads, including the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park & Pacific, arrived in the high country in the early 1880s. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the ...

Narrow-gauge railroads, including the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park & Pacific, arrived in Summit County in the early 1880s. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the ...

This is the narrow-gauge railroad display near Cimarron, Colo., on the road to an area below Morrow Point Dam and Crystal Lake in the Black Canyon portion of Curecanti National Recreation Area. This ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A storied veteran will soon come out of retirement to again scale mountains in southwest Colorado. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Locomotive ...

There’s something wonderfully romantic about steam locomotives. They speak to you. They have personalities. They whomp and clank and hiss. There’s a lot going on. For the engineer and fireman — the ...

Railroad History, known as the R&LHS; Bulletin from 1921 until 1972, is the oldest railroad history journal in North America. It contains original scholarship and fresh interpretations that set the ...

The Grand Junction News was ecstatic when it reported the arrival of the first Denver & Rio Grande Railway train in Grand Junction at seven minutes before 5 p.m. on Nov. 21, 1882. “Tuesday will be ...

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TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...