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Colorado Railroad Museum
[est. 1959]
![current logo on red for Colorado Railroad Museum [est. 1959] in Golden, Colorado](images/CRRM-redlogo.jpg "current logo on red for Colorado Railroad Museum [est. 1959] in Golden, Colorado")
located at 17155 W. 44th Avenue in Golden, Colorado
great collection of standard- and narrow-gauge locomotives & rolling stock; rides available every Saturday;
museum exhibits & store; outdoor garden layout & live steam layout, indoor HO-scale layout
Museum Links
Colorado Railroad Museum [est. 1959] in Golden, Colorado
C.R.R.M. entry at Wikipedia
Colorado Railroad Museum's YouTube Channel [est. 5/2010]
C.R.R.M. Research Library & Collections [est. 1997]
C.R.R.M. Online Store - printed material, clothing, DVDs & media, toys, event tickets
C.R.R.M. official Facebook page []
General Railroad Links
American Railroads Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
Railroad Film Festival Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
May 10th is National Train Day in USA [est. 2008]
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad [est. 1970] tourist line in New Mexico & Colorado
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad [1870-1988] Page
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad [saved 1981] tourist line
Rio Grande Southern Railroad [1889-1952]
Rolling Stock - Locomotives
1880 Denver, Leadville & Gunnison narrow gauge 2-8-0 locomotive #191
1881 Denver & Rio Grande Western C-28 class standard gauge 2-8-0 locomotive #583/683 - in roundhouse for restoration (2015)
1881 Denver & Rio Grande Western coal-fired narrow gauge C-19 class 2-8-0 locomotive #346 -
complete overhaul 1978-79; running weekly, 1979-2024; overhaul at Durango yards 2024-2025 
1890 Manitou & Pikes Peak #1 0-4-0T cog wheel steam locomotive on display in parking lot
1896 Denver & Rio Grande Western C-18 class narrow gauge 2-8-0 locomotive #318 is operative
1898 DB&W, later R.G.S. narrow-gauge 2-8-0 locomotive #30 is owned by the City of Boulder
1899 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge 4-6-0 #20 is fully restored and operational 8/2020!
1902/1928 Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 class narrow gauge 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive #491
{in storage since 1970, signed over 6/2013, operational 8/2014}
1920 Union Pacific #4455 0-6-0 switcher operated at the Laramie [WY] Portland Cement plant until 1965
1920 American Oil Company's #1 0-4-0T switcher operated at the Standard Oil/Amoco plant in Casper, Wyoming until 1962
1940 Chicago Burlington & Quincy 4-8-4 locomotive #5629
1940s Golden City & San Juan centercab diesel-electric switcher #4
1957 former Rock Island SW-900 diesel switcher #550, purchased by Coors in 1981, renumbered #C988
1962? Denver & Rio Grande Western GP-30 diesel-electric locomotive #3011 was cosmetically restored in 2022.
1971 Denver & Rio Grande Western F-9 diesels 5771 & 5762
Denver & Rio Grande narrow-gauge four-wheel 35-ton diesel switcher #50
U.S. Gypsum narrow-gauge four-wheel diesel switcher 'Pee Wee'
R.G.S. Galloping Goose railcars entry at Wikipedia
1931 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge Galloping Goose #2 {{ Wikipedia entry }}
1934 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge freight-only Galloping Goose #6 {{ Wikipedia entry }}
1936 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge Galloping Goose #7 operates on some weekends
Rolling Stock - Passenger Cars
1880 D&RGW narrow-gauge passenger coach #280 is owned by the City of Boulder.
1881 D&RGW passenger coach #284 - being restored (2015); repaired/repainted 2023
1882 D&RG/RGS narrow-gauge postal-business-work car 'Rico' or 'Montezuma'
1880s Chicago Burlington & Quincy business car #96 restoration begun 10/2022
1887 Colorado Midland RR observation-chair car #111 restoration begun 10/2022
1949 Union Pacific streamliner dining car #4801 'Tahoe' purchased in 2013 and in use for meetings & parties
1969 narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon steel passenger car #280 'Lake Dease' (purchased in 2015)
1976 narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon steel passenger car #286 'Lake Kusawa' (purchased in 2015)
AT&SF streamliner observation-sleeper car 'Navajo'
D&RGW RPO car #60
D&RGW narrow-gauge Railway Express Agency baggage car #168
D&RGW business car B-8 is being restored at the museum's roundhouse
Uintah Railway combine car #50 is being restored at the museum's roundhouse (2015)
Union Pacific streamliner passenger coach #5442
two Golden City & San Juan passenger cars are being restored at the museum's roundhouse
Great Western Railway combine car #100 is on outdoor display (2004)
Rolling Stock - Freight Cars
1898 Florence & Cripple Creek narrow-gauge boxcar #588
1902 Denver & Rio Grande narrow-gauge gondola car #1217
1929 Western Fruit Express refrigerator car ACDX #5400 repainted with Coors Beer billboard
Denver & Rio Grande narrow-gauge double-deck livestock car #5666
Denver & Rio Grande narrow-gauge flatcar #6209
U.T.L.X. (Union Tank Line) narrow-gauge tank car #11058
Rolling Stock - Work Units
1887 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge work crew house car #01789
1899 Colorado & Southern standard-gauge rotary snowplow #99201 was cosmetically restored in 2022; repaired/repainted 2023.
1902 Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge wooden work caboose #0404
Chicago Burlington & Quincy wedge snowplow (on a flatcar) #205065
D&RGW kitchen car #04255
R.G.S. bunk car
D&RGW kitchen car #04255
the plural of caboose is 'cabeese'
1879? D&RGW narrow-gauge 4-wheel wooden caboose #0578
1895 D&RGW narrow-gauge wooden caboose #04990 is owned by the City of Boulder
Burlington/C&S wooden caboose #10606 is on display.
CB&Q wooden caboose #13862 is in use for children's birthday parties.
Colorado & Southern narrow-gauge four-wheel caboose #1006
Colorado & Southern narrow-gauge four-wheel caboose #1009 - acquired 12/2018; repaired/repainted 2023
D&SL steel caboose #10060 is on display.
D&RGW wooden caboose #0524 is on display.
D&RGW wooden caboose #0585 is on display.
D&RGW narrow-gauge wooden caboose is lettered for the Georgetown Loop RR and on display.
Denver & Rio Grande narrow-gauge 4-wheel wooden caboose #49
Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge wooden 4-wheel caboose #0400 is lettered for the Georgetown Loop RR and on display
Books & Other Media
 | "Chasing Trains: The Lifetime Story of The Founder of The Colorado Railroad Museum" [1995] by Robert W. Richardson [1910-2007]
features 425 color and black & white photographs Heimburger House Publng 11½x9 2nd edition hardcover [9/2004] for $18.08 Sundance Publns 11x8½ 2nd edition hardcover [5/1995] out of print/used Sundance Publns 11x8½ hardcover [5/1995] out of print/used | |
 | "Chasing The Narrow Gauge, Volume 1: Rio Grande (D&RGW)" [2002] by Robert W. Richardson First of Richardson's trilogy, covering his life and the founding of the Narrow Gauge Museum [1948-1958] in Alamosa, Colorado which became the Colorado Railroad Museum [est. 1959] in Golden, Colorado Heimburger House Publng 9½x12¼ hardcover [2002] for $23.49 | |
 | "Chasing The Narrow Gauge, Volume 2: Rio Grande (D&RGW)" [2005] by Robert W. Richardson Takes a close look at D&RGW's Silverton-Durango, Farmington, Third Division, and Valley Line branches Heimburger House Publng 9½x12¼ hardcover [5/2005] for $54.50 | |
 | "Chasing The Narrow Gauge, Volume 3: Rio Grande Southern" [2011] by Robert W. Richardson Otto Mears [1840-1931] built the narrow gauge Rio Grande Southern in just two years between Durango and Ridgway, Colorado; the 172-mile route wrapped itself around the craggy and forested San Juan Mountains, climbing four mountain passes and featuring 142 bridges, including numer-ous high, spindly trestles. Heimburger House Publng 9½x12 hardcover [6/2011] out of print/SOLD OUT! |
"Colorado Rail Annual: A Journal of Railroad History In The Rocky Mountain West" book series
recent news about Colorado Rail Annual at the C.R.R.M. website
"Colorado Rail Annual #1: ??" [1969 maybe] by Cornelius W. Hauck
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Cornelius-Hauck/dp/B0043RLHXU/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Number-One/dp/B001FAD81W/
"Colorado Rail Annual #?: To Silverton In Snow" [1964] by R.W. Richardson
http://www.amazon.com/Silverton-Snow-Colorado-Rail-Annual/dp/B007KPMU88/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Annual-Cornelius-Richardson-editors/dp/B002J4FC26/
"Colorado Rail Annual #?: Ghost Rails in the Rockies" [1966] by Bernard Kelly
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Annual-1966-Ghost-Rockies/dp/B008SZWQXI/
"Colorado Rail Annual #7: TO SANTA FE BY NARROW GAUGE: THE D&RG's Chili Line" [1969] by Cornelius W. Hauck
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-1969-Special/dp/B000TKGXA2/
http://www.amazon.com/COLORADO-RAIL-ANNUAL-1969-SPECIAL/dp/B002CJ2LZ4/
http://www.amazon.com/SANTE-FE-NARROW-GAUGE-Chili/dp/B0012QIT1I/
"Colorado Rail Annual #8: NARROW GAUGE TRANSCONTINENTAL I: SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD" [pamphlet 1970] by Frank King
http://www.amazon.com/COLORADO-ANNUAL-Issue-NARROW-TRANSCONTINENTAL/dp/B00S75G874/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-1970-Issue/dp/B000N29QAU/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-1970/dp/B0010QPB9I/
"Colorado Rail Annual #9: A Journal of Railroad History in the Rocky Mountain West" [1971] by Mallory Hope Ferrell & Gordon Chappell
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http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Number-Nine/dp/B000ST6GJ2/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Issue-Number/dp/B00RH5LQ72/ pb
http://www.amazon.com/Galloping-Grande-Southern-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654092/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Issue-Number/dp/B001H0E8Y6
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Colroado-Museum/dp/B000PKVUI6/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-9/dp/B0042J1S2E/
"Colorado Rail Annual #10: Narrow Gauge to Central and Silver Plume - Route of the Famed Georgetown Loop" [1972] by Cornelius W. Hauck
http://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Gauge-Central-Silver-Plume/dp/0918654106/
http://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Gauge-Central-Silver-Plume/dp/B002DHPIPK/
http://www.amazon.com/Narrow-Central-Silver-Colorado-Annual/dp/B002KGFPB6/
"Colorado Rail Annual #11: Train Time In Ouray" [1973] by Harold F. Stewart, Gordon Chappel, et al
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Journal-Railroad-History-Mountain/dp/B000NQ5UX8/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Journal-Railroad-Mountain-Eleven-1973/dp/B0043RNSLY/
http://www.amazon.com/Train-Time-Ouray-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654114/
"Colorado Rail Annual #12: The South Park Line - A Concise History" [1974] by Gordon Chappell, Robert W. Richardson
http://www.amazon.com/South-Park-Line-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654122/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-12/dp/B002DJUBZA/36
"Collected Colorado Rail Annual" [1974] - the first seven issues were slim pamphlets for 50¢ each
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Colorado-Annual-Railroad-Museum/dp/B007ROPDYU/
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Colorado-Rail-Annual/dp/B0145ULF0E/
"Colorado Rail Annual #13: A History of the Florence & Cripple Creek and Golden Circle Railroads" [1976] by Tivis E. Wilkins
http://www.amazon.com/History-Florence-Cripple-Railroads-Colorado/dp/B00YB2SYTC/
http://www.amazon.com/Florence-Cripple-Creek-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654130/
http://www.amazon.com/HISTORY-FLORENCE-CRIPPLE-Colorado-Annual/dp/B005LJYHEU/
http://www.amazon.com/Florence-Cripple-Creek-Colorado-Annual/dp/B000STA0UI/
"Colorado Rail Annual #14: Narrow Gauge Byways in the San Juans - Private Cars, Lake City, Creede" [1979] by editor Gordon S. Chappell
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-Railroad-Mountain/dp/0918654149/
"Colorado Rail Annual #15: Idaho-Montana Issue" [1981] by Mallory Hope Ferrell, Cornelius W. Hauck, et al
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-Idaho-Montana/dp/0918654157/
"Colorado Rail Annual #16: Short Line To Cripple Creek - The Story of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway" [1983] by Tivis E. Wilkins
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Cripple-Creek-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654165/
"Colorado Rail Annual #17: Rock Island • Tennessee Pass • Fort Collins Trolleys" [1987] by Michael Doty, E.M. Mel McFarland, et al,
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Journal-Railroad-History-Mountain/dp/B003HOOJ9Y/
http://www.amazon.com/Island-Tennessee-Pass-Fort-Collins-Trolleys-Colorado/dp/0918654173/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-17/dp/B000RMVICK/
"Colorado Rail Annual #18: Railroading in the Rockies a Half Century Ago" [1990] by Ted Wurm, John W.R. Naxwell, Edward Mahoney
http://www.amazon.com/Railroading-Rockies-Century-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654181/
"Colorado Rail Annual #19: Coal, Cinders and Parlor Cars: A Century of Colorado Passenger Trains" [1991] by W.F. Gale
http://www.amazon.com/Coal-Cinders-Parlor-Cars-Passenger/dp/091865419X/
"Colorado Rail Annual #20: Dreams, Visions and Visionaries" [1993] by editors Charles Albi, R.C. Farewell & Kenton Forrest
http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Visions-Visionaries-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654203/
"Colorado Rail Annual #21: Robert W. Richardson's Narrow Gauge News" [1994] by Robert W. Richardson & Ted Rose
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Richardsons-Narrow-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654211/
"Colorado Rail Annual #22: Journeys Through Western Rail History" [2000] by Kenton Forrest, Richard A. Cooley & Charles Albi
http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Through-Western-History-Colorado/dp/091865422X/
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-22/dp/B000WU7D4O/
"Colorado Rail Annual #23: Santa Fe in the Intermountain West" [1998] by editors Kenton Forrest, Richard A. Cooley & Charles Albi
http://www.amazon.com/Santa-Intermountain-West-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654238/
"Colorado Rail Annual #24: A Ticket to Ride the Narrow Gauge - A Chronological History of the D&RG Narrow Gauge Passenger Trains
and Their Equipment, 1871-1981" [2000] by Herbert Danneman
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-Chronological/dp/0918654246/
http://www.amazon.com/Herbert-Colorado-Railroad-Museum-Danneman/dp/B00RWQSLM4/
"Colorado Rail Annual #25: Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Varnish - A Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Passenger Train Car Roster,
1871-1981" [2003] by Herbert Danneman
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-Passenger/dp/0918654750/
"Colorado Rail Annual #26: Stairway to the Stars: Colorado's Argentine Central Railway" [5/2005] by Dan Abbott
http://www.amazon.com/Stairway-Stars-Colorados-Argentine-Colorado/dp/0918654769/
"Colorado Rail Annual #27: Western Pacific, The Last Transcontinental Railroad" [2006] by David F. Myrick
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-Transcontinental/dp/0918654777/
"Colorado Rail Annual #28: Rio Grande, Memories of the Final Years" [2007] by Ronald C. Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Rail-Annual-No-28/dp/0918654785/
"Colorado Rail Annual #29: Black Smoke and White Iron" [2009] by Willaim Reich
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Smoke-White-Colorado-Annual/dp/0918654793/
"Colorado Rail Annual #30: Age of the Decapods" [2010] by Robert A. LeMassena & Harold K. Vollrath
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Decapods-Colorado-Annual-Annuals/dp/0918654610/
 | "Colorado Rail Annual #31: Colorado Railroad Water Tanks" [2013] by William Reich over 260 color and black & white photographs, maps, and illustrations of tanks and water equipment C.R.H.F. 11x8½ hardcover [2013] for $67.64 | |
 | "Colorado Rail Annual #32" [2017] 3 articles: "San Luis Central" by John Gruber • "Greeley East" re Union Pacific’s Greeley branch by Kenton Forrest • "Arkansas Valley Railway" by Robert W. McLeod C.R.H.F. 11x8½ hardcover [2017] out of print/used | |
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"Colorado Rail Annual #33: Rio Grande Standard Gauge Passenger Trains & Cars" [2018] by Mike B. Davis & Herb Danneman 352 pages, over 400 images, with numerous illustrations of timetables, passes, menus, advertising matter, and detailed passenger car rosters C.R.R.M. 11x8½ hardcover [2018] out of print/used |
"Colorado Rail Annual #34: Take The Pike’s Peak Route - Passenger Trains On The Colorado Midland, 1887-1900" [2021]
by Adrian & Art Hundhausen • not yet available at Amazon
"Colorado Rail Annual #35: Rails Around The Table Mountains - The Railroads of Golden Colorado" [12/2023] by Dan Abbott
384 pages & over 290 illustrations; not yet available at Amazon
Facilities, Exhibits, Events https://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/railyard/
"Wheels of Mis/Fortune: Pullman’s Legacy of Innovation, Idealism, and Exploitation" exhibit [new 5/2022]
"Hidden From History: A Century of Women In Railroading" exhibit [10/2024 thru 8/2025]
Steampunk Day at the Railroad Museum [May 2018 = #3?]
Day Out With Thomas The Tank Engine at the Railroad Museum [September 2018 = #?]
Polar Express Train Ride™ at the Railroad Museum [daily in December 2018]
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