Where narrow gauge teakettles once simmered between runs, Colorado & Southern 634 absorbs the afternoon sun alongside the roundhouse at Denver’s Rice Yards. One of dozens of humble B-4R class Al... (more)

Colorado & Southern 809, just arrived in Loveland with the Fort Collins local, has set out with three cars for lineside businesses. That accomplished, she’ll haul the rest of her train -- boxcar... (more)

Portrait of a classic: C&S 629’s engineer is leaning way out, looking back to the brakeman’s signals as he backs a cut of livestock cars across the South Platte River and into the labyrinth of... (more)

Colorado & Southern’s Globeville Branch snaked through Denver to serve the historic Globe Smelter and the city’s extensive stock yards, both of which in January, 1959, still provided enough tr... (more)

Colorado & Southern 809 is rolling into Loveland with the local from Ft. Collins on a pleasantly warm November afternoon, 1958. The heavy U.S.R.A. 2-8-2 was, until recently, Chicago Burlington & Q... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)