Happy summer! As the weather starts to finally warm up and feel like summer, we thought we’d feature a refreshing beverage: Manitou Mineral Water with Lemonade. We’ll also discuss the history of Manitou Springs, tuberculosis in Colorado, and the Denver & Rio...
Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum! This month, we’ll be taking a look at one of the oldest surviving narrow gauge railroad passenger cars not only in Colorado, but also the entire U.S.! Today, Denver & Rio Grande Western business...
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...
This month, we’ll be doing something different: we’ll be following Rio Grande Southern Steam Locomotive No. 20 as it heads offsite to the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad for a series of historic excursions in late summer and early fall 2021. Locomotive No. 20’s...
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...