Northern Pacific’s westbound Mainstreeter carries several head-end cars as it rolls near Missoula, Mont., in 1966, including four NP express baggage cars, a Union Pacific baggage car, and an RPO. Philip C. Johnson photo […]
Construction crews working westward on the Union Pacific encountered rough going when they reached Utah’s Weber Canyon. Trains collection If you built a transcontinental railroad today from scratch, how long would it take, given the regulatory environment of the modern world? Nobody knows for sure, but the best guess is about 57 years. Here’s a […]
Today, Promontory Summit is home to the recreated Golden Spike Historic Site, home for two replica 4-4-0s: Union Pacific No. 119, shown, and Central Pacific Jupiter. Jim Wrinn Most school children learned that the Transcontinental Railroad was completed May 10, 1869, at “Promontory Point,” where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met, and where […]
A Big Boy, Two Challengers, and 100 Cars travel from Quartz Mountain Summit to Lakeview at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s February, 2019 Extreme Trains event. Video submitted by Bill Rogers. […]
A Big Boy, Two Challengers, and 100 Cars travel from Quartz Mountain Summit to Lakeview at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s February, 2019 Extreme Trains event. Video submitted by Bill Rogers. […]
AURORA, Colo. — A light rail vehicle was going more than three times the speed limit when it derailed on a curve in Aurora in January, ejecting a passenger whose leg was severed by the moving train, the Denver Post reports. The Post report on the Jan. 28 derailment is based on a police report […]
DENVER — The commission overseeing efforts to launch passenger rail service along Colorado’s Front Range has hired its first project director. Randy Grauberger, a long-time Colorado Department of Transportation staff member most recently employed at the engineering firm WP, has been hired by the Southwest Chief and Front Range Passenger Rail Commission. The group, created […]
A pair of BNSF Railway units pull a train of some 130-plus stored coal hoppers from Spikebuck, Colo., about five miles west of Parkdale, Colo., where Royal Gorge Route tourist trains terminate. Jody Moore CANON CITY, Colo. — A piece of Rio Grande’s long-dormant Tennessee Pass route saw freight traffic on it again briefly Monday. […]
The former Manitou & Pikes Peak cars rest after delivery in Golden in mid-February. Two photos, Colorado Railroad Museum: Matthew Isaacks GOLDEN, Colo. – The Colorado Railroad Museum has received three power and passenger cars from the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway, formerly the Manitou & Pike’s Peak Railway. Nos. 7, 9, and 12 were […]
Class K-28 2-8-2 No. 476 leads a flanger extra, seen above Shalona Lake just south of Rockwood, Colo., in January 2019. Lawrence Gross DURANGO, Colo. – The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is suspending regular passenger operations through Feb. 23 as southwest Colorado braces for yet another major winter storm. The railroad operates passengers […]
Denver A Line commuter trains meet at the Peoria station. Two approvals from the Federal Railroad Administration have moved Denver’s RTD closer to opening its G Line service to Wheat Ridge, Colo. TRAINS: David Lassen DENVER — With approval on two fronts from the Federal Railroad Administration, Denver’s Regional Transportation District has reached “a major […]
WENDOVER, Wyo. – Two BNSF Railway coal trains derailed in a remote Wyoming canyon on Monday, injuring two people and spilling fuel into a nearby river. The Star Tribune reports that a loaded coal train rear ended another train north of Wendover. Three locomotives and four cars derailed as a result of the incident. The […]
