Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union Pacific and Wabash for the City of St. Louis in 1958, U.S.

Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Jackson took this photo of the railroad tracks snaking through the Royal Gorge in 1886, six years after the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad won its court battle and ...

The Colorado Railroad Museum, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and Durango Railroad Historical Society have ...

Ogden owns a rare gem, and the city has a decision to make. Built in 1881, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Locomotive No. 223 represents the most historically significant time period in the ...

“Rio Grande to Abandon Tracks in Aspen,” declared the Aspen Illustrated News on Aug. 8, 1968. “The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad has officially notified the Aspen city council that the ...

A cyclist was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle in Kaysville on Monday morning, according to police.

Rides on a steam train pulled by Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 491 (Colorado’s largest operating coal-fired steam locomotive). The train this day will be a “Mixed Train” of coaches and freight cars, ...

There’s a pair of stories in this week’s Time Machine (that’s our “this week in local history” column, publishing on Monday) which explain more — but after the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ...

The Denver & Rio Grande (reorganized into the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1925) now had this oddball line that, in hindsight, long served its intended purpose.

“The railroad was originally built by the Denver and Rio Grande [Western Railroad] in 1880 as a part of the San Juan extension,“ said Scott Gibbs, Cumbres and Toltec railroad president.