Colorado Railroad HERITAGE WEEK
Celebrating Colorado’s Rich Railroad Heritage • June 24th-30th, 2025
SOME COLORADO RAILROAD HERITAGE FACTS
Colorado currently boasts the following:
● 18 steam locomotives in operation, with five more undergoing restoration to operating condition, making it one of the top two states for steam locomotion in the U.S. today
● The highest and longest steam railroad in the Western Hemisphere (the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad)
● The highest cog railroad in the world (Broadmoor, Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway)
● The fourth longest railroad tunnel in North America (Moffat Tunnel, used by Amtrak’s California Zephyr and the Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” train)
● Six out of the seven famed Galloping Geese, a rail fan favorite contraption that took early automobiles and fitted them with train wheels and room for passengers, mail and freight (Colorado Railroad Museum, Galloping Goose Historical Society, Ridgway Railroad Museum, Telluride Volunteer Fire Department)
● One of the largest model railroads by size in the U.S. (Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley)
● Trains that have appeared in many movies, including Around the World in 80 Days and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Durango & Silverton), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Cumbres & Toltec Scenic), and A Ticket to Tomahawk (Colorado Railroad Museum)
● A wide variety of restored railroad stations, locomotives, cars, operating trains, model trains, and rails to trails options that capture the romance and history of railroads in Colorado
“We hope Colorado Railroad Heritage Week will be a time for Coloradans to reflect on all that railroads have meant to our state, and make plans to ride an historic train or visit a rail heritage site or museum,” Hammond said. He noted that rail heritage sites can be found just about everywhere in Colorado – from the eastern plains of Julesburg, Hugo and Limon, to the San Luis Valley in the south, to Western Slope communities from Durango to Grand Junction to Winter Park, and along the Front Range from Fort Collins to Pueblo. A number of Colorado railroads and attractions are “on board” for Colorado Railroad Heritage Week, and will offer special events and even discounts!
Offers, Events, Promotions and Exhibits Throughout Colorado:
Colorado Railroad Museum
Save 10% off Colorado Rail Annual No. 35: Rails Around The Table Mountains – Golden resident and historian Dan Abbott brings the subject to life through contemporary accounts and an amazing array of vintage photography! This carefully researched and artistically written work features 384 pages filled with 290+ illustrations! Click Here to order online!
Contact: Bri Wells bri@crrm.org
Address: 17155 W. 44th Avenue
Web Site: shop.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org
Colorado Railroad Museum
Enjoy free admission to the Broomfield Depot Museum on Saturday, June 28 at 2201 W. 10th Ave. Open from 11am – 4pm, the Depot Museum offers tours and educational exhibits about Broomfield’s historic live-in railroad depot, as well as tours of the adjacent Crawford Honey House. Click Here to learn more!
Contact: David Allison dallison@broomfield.org
Address: 2201 W. 10th Ave., Broomfield, Colorado, 80020
Phone Number: (720) 402-8425
ABOUT THE COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM:
Consistently ranked by Visit Denver as one of the top 10 attractions in the city, the Colorado Railroad Museum features the most comprehensive collection of railroad history in the state with more than 100 narrow- and standard-gauge steam and diesel locomotives, passenger cars, cabooses and freight cars. Located on a spectacular 15-acre site in Clear Creek Valley in Golden, CO, the museum has a half mile circle of operating track offering weekend train rides, along with a working roundhouse and turntable, railroad library, exhibition galleries, outdoor pavilion, and a huge indoor HO model railroad and outdoor G-scale garden railway. The Colorado Railroad Museum offers interactive family fun mixed with authentic Colorado railroad history.
