The Colorado Railroad Museum

Photographs © George P. Landow may be copied without written permission for any noncommercial use — for hobbies, education, and so on. If you have any additional information on the locomotives or rolling stock in these pictures, please feel free to send it along to me at george@landow.com; pictures are welcome, too. Thanks to Robert Wolfe, who pointed out that I had misspelled Rio Grande throughout this section! He generously also explained that "My pointing this out is like the pot calling the kettle black because we pronounce the name of our town as RYE-oh Grand." GPL)

Rio Grande Southern no. 20 (4-6-0)

• Side view with passenger car
• Tender with rerailer

Rio Grande Southern no. 683 (2-8-0)

• Three-quarter front view
• Boiler jacket detail near cab
• Drain daily
• Loco steps and connections to tender
• Tender coupler and steps
• Tender truck and rerailer

Argentine Central Class C Shay

• Blowing smoke for the railfans
• Moving through the back of the museum property
• The front of the locomotive in motion
• Three-quarter front view approaching the station
• The crew standing near the tender and tank car
• Watering the locomotive at the end of the day's runs
• Detail of steam dome

Denver and Rio Grande Western Stockcars

• End with details of roofwalk, grab irons, and truck
• Trussrods and other underbody details
• Side with weathered roof
• Side with lettering
• Trussrods, brake cylinder, and wooden constructioin
• Details of side beams

CB&L Half-side Stockcar (no. 5713)

• Left end of car with lettering
• Center with door

Various freight cars, details of weathering and signage

• door and fitttings, narrow-plank-sided refrigerator car
• end of heavily weathered, narrow-plank-sided refrigerator car
• boxcar (?) end with lettering and grab-irons
• boxcar end with ladder, grab-iron, and signage
• Right end of Rio Grande boxcar with lettering and logo
• Heavily weathered side of Colorado Central boxcar
• Colorado Central boxcar, end with grab-irons
• D&RGW boxcar no. 3670
• D&RGW boxcar no. 3661, end with lettering
• D&RGW boxcar, "Sugar flour and bean loading only"

Flat and Hopper Cars

• heavily aged hopper with unusual (?) side supports
• End view of heavily aged hopper
• D&RGW 878 Side-opening dump car with interesting step and levers
• D&RGW 878 Side-opening hopper near 752 and other cars
• Detail of brakewheel hardware and end
• Detail of brakewheel hardware and end

Nonrevenue and Maintenance-of-Way Cars

• Chicago Burlington & Quincy Wedge Snow Plow no. 205065
• The Wedge Snow Plow no. 205065 next to Denver and Salt Lake caboose
• D&RGW idler car X-3050
• WW&IB Test Weight Car
• WW&IB Test Weight Car (opposite side)
• WW&IB Test Weight Car, detail
• WW&IB Test Weight Car, detail
• Colorado and Southern 4-wheel caboose
• Small hand-powered crane car
• D&RGW Kitchen Car 04255
• 4-wheel narrow-gauge pushcar

Various Locomotives

• Old Timer
• Old Timer, 3/4 view from rear
• Detail of Old 191, Baldwin locomotive no. 4919 built in 1880
• Detail of Old 191: the builder's plate
• Denver & Rio Grande F79 A&B
• Rerailer(s) on locomotive
• 0-4-0T with No. 20 and the yellow, black, and silver diesel behind
• Royal Gorge no. 40, a Consolidation with counter-weighted drivers
• Rio Grandee Southern RR Co. no. 2, a Gallaping Goose made from a Pierce Arrow motorcar

Passenger Cars

• Passenger car truck details
• Date journals were repacked (detail of above)
• Wrought iron railings on end of passenger, business, or private car

Roundhouse Details

• The turntable with cabooses, old timer with baloon stack, and tankcar
• Ladder at center of turntable
• Grindwheel mounted in front of the roundhouse
• Flatcar with two acetylene tanks between a tank car and a boxcar and a gondolda
• Rusted iron components

Our afternoon at the museum