#TriviaTuesday: Golden’s First Funicular

#TriviaTuesday: Golden’s First Funicular

It’s #TriviaTuesday at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This week, in anticipation of the release of our latest Colorado Rail Annual: Rails Around The Table Mountains, our question is, in what year was the first Funicular Railway opened for operation in Golden,...
#TBT Rails Around The Table Mountains

#TBT Rails Around The Table Mountains

It’s #TBT and for #ThrowbackThursday this week we’re taking a look at historic Golden, CO through the photography collection of author and historian Dan Abbott! Dan’s latest book, Rails Around The Table Mountains: The Railroads of Golden, Colorado is...
#TriviaTuesday: Golden Railroads!

#TriviaTuesday: Golden Railroads!

It’s #TriviaTuesday at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This week, in anticipation of the release of our latest Colorado Rail Annual: Rails Around The Table Mountains, our question is, can you name one of the railroads that operated in Golden, Colorado? Don’t...
Dining on the Rails: Champagne!

Dining on the Rails: Champagne!

Happy New Year! For this month’s post, we’ve decided to feature a beverage that is perfect to ring in the New Year: champagne! Though champagne itself requires no recipe, some of the railroad commissary booklets had extensive instructions regarding how champagne...
#TBT Goose Operations In The Snow

#TBT Goose Operations In The Snow

It’s #TBT and for #ThrowbackThursday this week we’re traveling back almost a decade to January 4, 2014, through the lens of longtime Museum volunteer George Lawrence! George was on-hand to capture the Museum grounds in fresh snow as crews operated Rio...

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