Big Train Tours: Second Generation Pioneer

Big Train Tours: Second Generation Pioneer

Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This week, we’ll be taking a look at a diesel locomotive placed in service in the early 1960s, Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 3011. Intended to pull freight trains “through the Rockies, not around...
#ThrowbackThursday

#ThrowbackThursday

It’s #TBT at the Colorado Railroad Museum and for #throwbackthursday we have some photos from longtime Museum volunteer Al Blount who was on-hand March 14, 2022 to document the move of Manitou & Pikes Peak Nos. 1 & 7 to a new location on the side of a...
Story Time & Craft: April

Story Time & Craft: April

Join Colorado Railroad Museum Storyteller Extraordinaire Scott King for Story Time as he reads some of his favorite, train-themed children’s stories online! This episode we finish reading “Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch” written by Mona Kerby with...
Small Wonders: Harvey Houses & Harvey Girls

Small Wonders: Harvey Houses & Harvey Girls

Today for this episode of Small Wonders we will be talking about Harvey Houses, the Harvey Girls, and their legacy of settlement in the American West. But before we talk about the Harvey Girls, it’s important to first understand Fred Harvey. Join Colorado Railroad...
#TriviaTuesday

#TriviaTuesday

It’s #TriviaTuesday at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This week our question is: In 1978 the Denver & Rio Grande Western celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the opening of which Colorado railroad icon? Participants are invited to submit their responses as a...

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