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

Baseball fans, especially Colorado Rockies fans, already know Coors Field is special. Constructed between 1993 and 1995, Coors Field--name...

Over 150 years ago, on October 27, 1870, civil war General William Jackson Palmer and his associates filed papers incorporating his baby rai...

Before " Blucifer the demon horse" of DIA  neighed its welcome (of sorts) to visitors driving in and out of the world's larg...

In two weeks , dignitaries and pundits will call attention to a small bluff in western Utah named Promontory Summit where rail crews from t...

This short film , The Railroader - Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Working On a Historic American West Railroad , is currently in Natio...

For Christmas, I received Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, sixth printing, first published in 1958. It is i...

Every once in a while, an e-mail from the contact form catches my eye, like this one: Dear Colorado Railroads, Wasn't there a line ru...

As near as I can figure, I think I have found the first ad ever placed with Trains magazine by the Colorado Railroad Museum , all the way...

Wind damage is no stranger to the northeastern  Colorado plains.   Photo: Sherrif Nestor,  Lincoln  County Sheriffs Office This weeke...

This late 1950s-era documentary of the New York Central shows some very interesting technology of the time. Of particular interest is the ...

As a young kid fascinated with trains, I would get my folks to take me often enough to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. Usually, it w...

One of the first questions I received using the Ask the Editor form is from Tim S. of Sydney, Australia who asks, "Is it possible t...

Photo of the Day: John West It's a cold morning a few days before Christmas 1961 in Durango Colorado. With the snow from a few days ...

Just north of the border of Colorado near US-85, about equidistant between the outskirts of Cheyenne and the state line is Speer, Wyoming. L...

You may remember a post and a follow-up in late 2011 about the state trying to save the "Towner line" from being carved up by it...

For Mother's Day 2014, a poem by Susie Kerin, Colorado writer from the early 20th century. The Garden Near the mountains is a love...

Union Pacific's EMD E9 #949 idles at Denver's North Yard with the Howard Fogg, a steam generator car in from Cheyenne for repair t...

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

The small town of Sedalia just south of Denver had a little more than it could handle Thursday, February 6th, when a BNSF freight train dera...