“Rio Grande to Abandon Tracks in Aspen,” declared the Aspen Illustrated News on Aug. 8, 1968. “The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad has officially notified the Aspen city council that the ...

The Colorado Railroad Museum, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and Durango Railroad Historical Society have ...

There’s a pair of stories in this week’s Time Machine (that’s our “this week in local history” column, publishing on Monday) which explain more — but after the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ...

Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Jackson took this photo of the railroad tracks snaking through the Royal Gorge in 1886, six years after the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad won its court battle and ...

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 ...

The Denver & Rio Grande (reorganized into the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1925) now had this oddball line that, ...

“The railroad was originally built by the Denver and Rio Grande [Western Railroad] in 1880 as a part of the San Juan extension,“ said Scott Gibbs, Cumbres and Toltec railroad president.

The museum also has one of my favorite locomotive designs, an EMD F9 in Denver & Rio Grande Western livery. If you think of a mid-20th century locomotive, this is probably what you're picturing.