Big Train Tours: 491
Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This month, we’ll be taking a look at Denver & Rio Grande Western steam locomotive No. 491. This massive, 1928 vintage coal burner is today the largest coal-burning steam locomotive operating in...
Big Train Tours – Electric Railway Caboose: Denver & Intermountain No. 902
Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This month, we’ll be taking a look at a caboose which once served on an electrified interurban railway line operating between Denver and Golden. Today, Denver & Intermountain caboose No. 902 is...
Big Train Tours – The Last Wig Wag
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 month, we’ll be taking a look at a Wig-Wag signal that once warned motorists of passing trains at a lonely...
