Once Silverton got rail service, other short branch lines were constructed radiating from the town. This included the Silverton Railroad, which ran over Red Mountain Pass following today’s U.S. 550.

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 Colorado ...

Narrow-gauge railroads, including the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park & Pacific, arrived in the high country in the early 1880s. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the ...

DOLORES, Colo. -- Before the Galloping Goose No. 5 rail car carried passengers and mail to and from Dolores in the 1930s and 40s, freight trains and steam locomotives dominated the historic railroad ...

Narrow-gauge railroads, including the Denver & Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park & Pacific, arrived in Summit County in the early 1880s. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A storied veteran will soon come out of retirement to again scale mountains in southwest Colorado. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s Locomotive ...

A slide covered a portion of the tracks with debris and rocks of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad but service is set to resume on Wednesday, the company says. The slide happened on Monday ...

There’s something wonderfully romantic about steam locomotives. They speak to you. They have personalities. They whomp and clank and hiss. There’s a lot going on. For the engineer and fireman — the ...

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