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...

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

In the twilight of the narrow gauge era of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, the Monarch Branch had the rare distinction of being standar...

Photo of the Day: James Belmont With the weather turning colder again, it's only fitting for the mind to turn to the one thing that ...

Photo of the Day: Kevin the Krazy 1 On the night of a full moon in early April, near Salida but far from the city lights of Denver and...

D&RGW 3600 LOCOMOTIVES by Dave Straight and John Hill 3600’s. Mention that number series and those who follow the Denver and R...

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...

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...

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...

In 1984, the Rio Grande was in its prime, and the video camera was just becoming semi-affordable. Primitive by today's digital standards...

If you wonder, like I sometimes do, what Tennessee Pass looks like about now, with all the aspens aglow and fluttering in the early fall bre...

Rounding out this week's theme for Photo of the Day of Tennessee Pass, Carl Weber returns to Colorado Railroads with a worthy photo inde...

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 ...

Colorado Railroads continues the theme of Tennessee Pass for Photo of the Day by going to the summit of Tennessee Pass, where a tunnel pierc...

It's hard to believe that only 10 years before this photo was taken, this right-of-way was part of a well-maintained transcontinental ra...

This fourth week of August, our POTD theme is Tennessee Pass. I know that a lot of folks would like to see the line return to service. Conve...

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 ...

Happy Fourth of July Weekend, everyone! It is a happy Fourth for the Royal Gorge Route and their riders. According to their representative...