Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, ...

Total coal production rose to 1,500 tons a day, with most of it sold to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. There were about 150 men working in the mines, and the total population of Sego ...

Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, ...

2 and 6 in its collection, allowing guests to explore and learn about these unique cars and their role in keeping southwestern Colorado’s remote Rio Grande Southern railroad operating through the ...

Four great surveys of the Western United States took place in the 1860s and ’70s; two of these surveys shine light on when ...

Shuttered, unloved, and picked over by scavengers, Detroit Central has now been resuscitated thanks to a $1 billion investment by Ford, ...

Claude Jarman Jr., the child actor who captured hearts in the 1946 classic The Yearling and later shared the screen with John Wayne in the 1950 western Rio Grande, has passed away.

The area was on the decline due to the boom-and-bust cycle of mining. The railcar operated on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad’s 36-mile branch from Sapinero to Lake City until 1933, when ...

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad operated the line, initially called the “Ski Train” until 2009. Amtrak resurrected the route for a one-day-only event in 2015. It was so popular that Amtrak ...

On a brisk February day in 1938, a community dream manifested atop the wind-whipped summit of Marshall Pass. Members of the ...