When this reporter first arrived in Carbondale, the trains transporting Mid-Continent coal were still active, and automobile drivers would often have to sit in their idling cars for several minutes, ...
Of course I rang the bell on a 130-year-old steam locomotive. And so would you. Right after you enter the Colorado Railroad Museum, you're greeted by a huge locomotive from the Denver and Rio Grande ...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the Brownsville community faces growing COVID numbers, sustained unemployment and strains on local education, activities and services, OmniTRAX and the ...
When Charles E. Bradshaw Jr. bought the Durango to Silverton branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1981, it marked an important turning point for the economies of both Durango and Silverton.
OmniTRAX, the short line railroad holding company that owns and operates more than 20 Class III railroads in the U.S., has signed a letter of intent to purchase the bankrupt San Luis & Rio Grande ...
In 1890, Colorado financier David H. Moffat, who was with the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at the time, had just returned to Denver from the east. Mr. Moffat kindly explained the details of his new ...
Ogden owns a rare gem, and the city has a decision to make. Built in 1881, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No. 223 represents the most historically significant time period in the railroad’s ...
The Colorado Department of Transportation closed a $50 million deal with the Union Pacific Railroad to buy the 58-acre Burnham Yard in central Denver. About 17 acres of the rail yard will accommodate ...
The faded yellow paint and cracked copula windows are gone. The 72-year-old Denver & Rio Grande Railroad caboose that is a key feature of the Eagle County Historical Society Museum complex in Eagle is ...
Otto Mears, a Lincoln Party Republican, entrepreneur and the man who built the Rio Grande Southern Railroad from Ridgway to Durango in the 1890s, was highlighted during a history lesson Saturday ...