Just north of the border of Colorado near US-85, about equidistant between the outskirts of Cheyenne and the state line is Speer, Wyoming. L...

Mike Armstrong is a photographer and videographer , posting on YouTube as CoasterFan2105 . His body of work has grown quite a bit. So, as a...

In the better-late-than-never department this week, we have the Pikes Peak region TECO Train Show . According to the press release, the show...

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The Ski Train , that wonderful but lost Denver institution, once ferried Denverites and not just a few tourists to the mountains of Winter P...

The rising sun is one of the best ways to color your photographs. During maybe a  half-hour at most, the sun shining through more of the at...

The summer sun is quickly fleeting away for 2014. Have you made it out to catch a few trains at work? Me neither. ☹ All is not lost, however...

You may remember a post and a follow-up in late 2011 about the state trying to save the "Towner line" from being carved up by it...

Jim Wrinn is the Editor of Trains magazine , and a consummate professional. He's also a very big fan of Colorado's Narrow Gauge. H...

Longtime web photographer and near-permanent fixture on CR, Kevin Morgan of ColoradoRailfan.com  visited Union Station and the Moffat Tunne...

Photo: HemiAdda2d Thanks for your patience. There is a reason CR has sat idle for the last few weeks. In railroading, a locomotive or tr...

BNSF 5391, a GE Dash 9-44CW struggles up the grade toward Palmer Lake with only one of her two teammates pulling along. Something tells me...

Exactly what season it is might fool many a viewer but not locals and certainly not Joe Blackwell. He caught this BNSF southbound coal dra...

Amtrak only recently celebrated its 40th year with surprisingly popular heritage locomotives. What might not be as popular is the national...

Norfolk Southern 2728, an SD70M-2, leads sister 6941, an SD60E downgrade from Palmer Lake, CO with a southbound BNSF manifest. BNSFs lack ...

For Memorial Day, our Photo of the Day is by our first contributing photographer to Colorado Railroads, John Hill of Denver. He managed to c...

Norfolk Southern Heritage unit 8101 sits in the lead of an eastbound manifest in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver. While road tra...

For Mother's Day 2014, a poem by Susie Kerin, Colorado writer from the early 20th century. The Garden Near the mountains is a love...

Union Pacific's EMD E9 #949 idles at Denver's North Yard with the Howard Fogg, a steam generator car in from Cheyenne for repair t...

Just a quick reminder today that admission is free today at the Colorado Railroad Museum . For those who need the extra nudge, the saving...