Here is just a quick highlight of a photo that looks so nice it's worth sharing.  This photo of a BNSF GE unit at Palmer Lake is from F...

I've been watching Alec, a vlogger--I hate using that word, but it is what it is, and his channel called Technology Connections  for mor...

If you subscribe to Colorado Railroads by email, changes are coming. Our syndication is through Feedburner, once an independent company that...

Photo of the Day: BUFFIE Earlier this month, Union Pacific's Steam collective in Wyoming needed to stretch their Big Boy's legs be...

It's been a while since we've done an Ask the Editor. Here's one from the e-mail bag, which lately has been overflowing. Questio...

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

Well, that didn't take long. Proving that there is nothing new under the sun, the action announced on the 31st of December, 2020, Rio Gr...

One last post to close out 2020. And boy, is it big news! A group known as Rio Grande Pacific is going to lease the Tennessee Pass Route f...

One area of lasting interest by railfans and historians in Colorado is Alpine Tunnel. Built by the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railro...

The illustrious David P. Morgan, longtime editor of Trains Magazine wrote towards the end of his time in 1982 about what constitutes a Class...

Jim Wrinn, editor of Trains Magazine recently talked shop about Rio Grande Southern engine 20 and what the expectations are with the restor...

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