Once in a while, I come across a resource or an item so well-done, I can't help but share it. RGSrr.com is an old school site in terms ...

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

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...

Here's a bit of trivia for you. In Colorado, two railroads circled a lake to gain altitude for their main line, one narrow gauge, the ot...

Rio Grande Southern Motor 3, the third Galloping Goose, will not  be in attendance at Goosefest this weekend at the Colorado Railroad Museu...

photo by Matt Isaaks As mentioned before, Goosefest on June 16 & 17 at the Colorado Railroad Museum is the first full Galloping Goo...

Major Event The news out of Golden couldn't be more significant. For the first time since the abandonment of the Rio Grande Southern, al...

Photo by  Mark Rightmire , The Orange County Register Over 60 years ago, Walter Knott, an enterprising man with many years' experien...

Anyone who has spent much time studying the narrow gauge railroads of southern Colorado has likely come across library books by Richard L. D...

As the digital age progresses, we'll see more and more digital media used to bring us glimpses of Colorado's railroading past. Of pa...

Ouray County over in the western San Juan Mountains is hosting Railroad Days this weekend . Indulge your inner rail geek and head on over.

Rare enough are photographs of the days of steam in Colorado . Rarer still are photos of odd equipment like pile drivers and the barrel tra...

Garden railways come into their glory in the summertime. If someone ever offers you the chance to view their layout in their back yard, don...

The Rio Grande Southern's Galloping Goose Motor 5 from Dolores will be running on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic railroad this summer 2...

Editor's Note: Happy 2009, everyone! Later this month, Colorado Railroads blog will celebrate completing it's 3rd year of posting ne...

Donald Tallman of the Colorado Railroad Museum has put his pictures of the Thanksgiving Goosefest on Webshotz (fair warning about ads) . W...

The news from Donald Tallman out at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden is that they're having Geese for Thanksgiving. Rio Grande So...

The Ridgway of the days of Otto Mears is long gone, but local historians are getting down to doing some serious archeological work. Catch up...

The Colorado Railroad Museum continues to oversee the out-of-state repairs being done on Rio Grande Southern steam engine #20. Linn Moeding...