According to the Colorado Cultural Resource Survey, Denver & Rio Grande built the Carbondale depot in October 1887. At that time, the population of Carbondale was around 200 people.

When he founded his small railroad in 1870, Gen. William Jackson Palmer didn’t plan to make it the most renowned mountain railroad in the country. He simply wanted to connect Denver with ...

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

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — When the last Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad train pulled out of the depot in Steamboat Springs running east to Denver on April 8, 1968, it marked the end the era of ...

Railroad: Denver & Rio Grande, Durango to Silverton. Where: ... all-steam tourist line did not fit well into the structure of the modern Denver & Rio Grande Western and a buyer was sought.

“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 ...

Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives 476 and 484 vent steam and smoke at La Jara, Colorado on Nov. 28, 1948. A man operates a railroad switch. The La Jara Milling and Elevator Co. grain ...

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 ...

Next talks about the A-line a lot. The train celebrated its half-birthday this week, the same week we're remembering another piece of Colorado's train history, the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. On ...

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 ...