-- Don Phillips Foreshadows a Near-fatal Error by Union Pacific -- No one who was watching the western railroad mergers of the 1990s can esc...

Caboose Hobbies, in whatever form the store survives, is set to re-open on Alameda Avenue in Lakewood just south of the Federal Center this...

For more than 140 years, the at-first narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and its standard gauge successors have maintained a loco...

Perhaps nowhere--at least not in the last 40 years--is the idea of railroading in Colorado more realized than Tennessee Pass . A former narr...

Mike Danneman, whose photos are 3 for 3 this week on POTD, has delivered a fine string from his flickr account . The St. Patrick's Day t...

In his second appearance this week for POTD, Mike Danneman is an accomplished railroad photographer whose work shows up in books and Trains...

On long, windy, winter nights, videos from summers past remind me that there are warm summer days still to come in Colorado, even in the hig...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were four western Class I railroads. Instead of yellow or orange locomotives, there were green ones...

We are in Minturn for the second time this week for Photo of the Day and our theme of Tennessee Pass. This time, however, we are only a few ...

Editors note: POTD continues, but after today, most will have a photo and a brief caption without the essay. Essays need to be fact-checked ...

Denver's altitude is 5,280 feet above sea level, earning it the obvious moniker, the Mile High City. The railroad route directly west wa...

Financial emperor Warren Buffett has been buying up BNSF shares for years, but even in the first 48 hours since the announcement, this much...

The Union Pacific purchased the Southern Pacific in 1996. Since then, UP had pursued a re-painting and patching program that actively worked...

It is with great sadness that I report that the Ski Train has been sold and will no longer operate in Colorado. I'll let that sink in f...

The Western Colorado Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society (WeCo, NRHS) is bringing in a Union Pacific locomotive engineer for...

It appears the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad just completed the purchase of former Southern Pacific Railroad standard-gauge steam loco...

A plow train for Kyle out on the eastern plains of Colorado busts 20 foot drifts in this awesome 2 minute video . It's hard to ignore th...