MUSEUM news
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – Trackside at Goosefest 2012 with Matthew Lewis!
It's #TBT and for Throwback Thursday this week we are going back to June 2012 for the Museum's Goosefest event through the awesome photographs of Museum volunteer Matthew Lewis. This special event provided participants with unique photographic opportunities and...
#TriviaTuesday – June 1, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
Big Train Tours: Rio Grande Southern Business Car “Rico”
Time for a new "Big Train Tour!" Each tour will focus on a different piece of historic equipment in the Colorado Railroad Museum’s collection. This episode, we'll examine a railroad business car that was originally built for the Denver & Rio Grande as a railway...
Small Wonders: Across the Fruited Plain – Migrating West to Colorado by Rail (part 2 of 2)
Join Colorado Railroad Museum Curator of Education & Exhibits, Elizabeth Nosek, to explore "Small Wonders" from the Museum's collection as part of the new “Still Working On The Railroad” initiative. Each segment will focus on different items from the Colorado...
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – 15″ Gauge Scale K-27 Test Runs 1976!
It's #TBT and for throwback Thursday we have some "home movie" footage from Colorado Railroad Museum volunteer George Lawrence. On a wet and messy spring day in early 1976 George traveled with Museum founder Robert "Bob" W. Richardson and 4 other Museum volunteers to...
Story Time and Craft: Sneezer!
Join Colorado Railroad Museum Storyteller Extraordinaire Terra Pettinger for Story Time as she reads some of her favorite, train-themed children's stories online! This episode we read "Sneezer" written by Estelle McInnes Upson and illustrated by Ben D. Williams. After...
#TriviaTuesday – May 18, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
Dining on the Rails: Railroad Cake!
The month of May is a very significant one in American railroad history, as May 10, 2021 marks the 152nd anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. For this month’s Dining on the Rails post, we are celebrating this monumental anniversary with...
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – Lionel Collectors Club of America Special 2010
It's # TBT and for Throwback Thursday this week we have some "home movie" footage from Colorado Railroad Museum supporter and volunteer Michael McBride. Michael was on-hand to capture Union Pacific No. 844 pulling the Lionel Collectors Club of America Special on July...
#TriviaTuesday – May 11, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
#TBT – Throwback Thursday May 6, 2021!
It's #TBT and for Throwback Thursday this week we have some Behind-the-Scenes video from Museum volunteer Richard Kuberski. Rich had a camera on-hand as crews pulled up to the Museum's Water Tank for a refill before departing on a Polar Express Train Ride in 2018. Do...
#TriviaTuesday – May 4, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
Big Train Tours: The Dome Car Monument!
Join Colorado Railroad Museum Executive Director Paul Hammond for a Virtual Tour each month (as part of the Museum’s “Still Working On The Railroad” online content initiative)! Each tour will focus on a different piece of historic equipment in the Colorado Railroad...
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – K-36 Steam Locomotive No. 481 in the Durango & Silverton Rail Yard!
It's #TBT and for Throwback Thursday this week we are sharing home movie footage from Colorado Railroad Museum volunteer George Lawrence. George was trackside with his camera to capture the the crew as they prepared the powerful K-36 steam locomotive, engine no. 481,...
#TriviaTuesday – April 27, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
Dining on the Rails – Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ham!
As the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers”. In Colorado, that may or may not be the case, as our spring weather is so unpredictable! For this month’s posting, we are celebrating spring and all that comes with it, from flowers and baby animals to Easter and...
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – Cheyenne Frontier Days Return Trip July 21, 2013!
It is #TBT and for Throwback Thursday this week we have footage from Colorado Railroad Museum volunteer Michael McBride of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Train returning to Wyoming on July 21, 2013 In this footage Michael captured Union Pacific Steam Locomotive No. 844 at...
#TriviaTuesday – April 20, 2021!
It’s #TriviaTuesday with the Colorado Railroad Museum! Each week, as part of our “Still Working on the Railroad” initiative we ask a railroad themed trivia question. Participants are invited to submit their answer as a comment on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or...
#TBT (ThrowbackThursday) – Mother’s Day Goose Fest 2009!
It’s #TBT and for ThrowbackThursday this week we are sharing footage captured by Museum volunteer Michael McBride during the Colorado Railroad Museum’s “Mother Day Goose Fest” on May 10, 2009. Staff and volunteers operated Rio Grande Southern “Galloping Goose” Motor...
Steam Days tickets now on-sale!
Railroad Museum to Feature Three Operating Steam Locomotives the Weekend of May 15-16! GOLDEN, Colo. – For the first time in its 62-year history, the Colorado Railroad Museum will have three coal-fired narrow-gauge locomotives under steam and operating for two days in...
