As the mercury slowly climbs out of winter and into our spring (hopefully), cabin fever has again sprung many images and ideas formerly lock...

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...

Today's Photo of the Day is awarded to James Griffin of www.actionroad.net . Few images seem to strike me as the many shots passengers ...

Last Friday marked the 63rd anniversary of the start of the California Zephyr , the fabled stainless steel streamliner operated by the Chica...

Sometimes a photographer takes a leap of faith with his audience and tries something new. Kevin Morgan, no stranger to CR's POTD, took s...

Kevin Madore, whose photo of the E&P #4 was our POTD yesterday returns for a double today with a photo from earlier in 2011. Rockwood is...

A Washington DC writer travels the Capitol Limited and California Zephyr to Nevada and San Francisco. Her trip was, in my own experience, a...

Kevin Madore of Massachusetts caught the Eureka & Palisade engine #4, the Eureka , on the bridge leaving Silverton one bright August aft...

Back in (coal) Black Boy oh boy. I wish I could say I was in some exotic location, blogging about so-and-so's steam special and what a ...

I just read a very good "local living"  article floated by the Pueblo Chieftain. It describes a day at the Colorado Railroad Muse...

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

Editor's note for younger readers: The following story deals with the death of a 13 year-old by suicide. For younger readers, I recommen...

 It's late on a snowy evening in December 2007. Union Station is lit up in all her glory, but the lights belie the cold rails and desert...

The Polar Express is making runs three times an evening all this week from Durango to "the North Pole." It's approach toward ...

In honor of those who will be travelling this week, I thought I'd see if I could turn up a Photo of the Day or two on the subject of tra...

Well, it's been a while since I've posted any Photos of the Day , hasn't it? Too long, I know. Let's get back into it, shall...

Following up on last month's post, State's Sale of Railroad Has Colorado's Citizens Fearing the Future , V&S Railway has in...

Editor's Note: A cold, chronic illness symptoms, and Christmas shopping have had the cumulative effect of blocking at least two major po...

Rail photographers Skip Weythman and Dan Barker work as a two-man video team that does a very good job capturing the beauty of locomotives a...

The Polar Express arrives at Durango's 125 year old station Colorado has many traditions and celebrations associated with Christma...