One of the Colorado Railroad Museum locomotives with a unique work history is UP 4455 (0-6-0). It was built in 1920 by Lima Locomotive Works and worked the Denver rail yards until it was sold in 1... (more)

Galloping Goose #7 takes visitors for a spin around the museum grounds on a beautiful autumn afternoon.

DRGW 5401 seems to be right at home at the Colorado Railroad Museum. A peeling UP patch with number 9871 still adorns the sides of the cab, but the number boards were thankfully backdated to refl... (more)

Here we see two engines in the collection of the Colorado Railroad Museum that worked at iconic businesses in Colorado. CORX C988 was built in 1938 (SW) and then was rebuilt in 1957 as a SW900. Th... (more)

The 'north 40' area of the Colorado Railroad Museum includes this watering station and old growth trees, making for a real a scenic trip when the fall leaves change colors.

On Saturdays in the fall the Colorado Railroad Museum often runs passengers around the grounds in Rio Grande Southern #7, one of three 'Galloping Goose' units owned by the museum. It is economica... (more)

In addition to an amazing collection of steam engines, many of which run during the summer weekends, the Colorado Railroad Museum has a variety of rolling stock. Here we see Denver & Rio Grande W... (more)

2 more reasons to visit Colorado.....the deep blue Colorado skies and the Colorado Railroad Museum. One of the standouts of the collection is Denver Rio Grande Western's 5771 (F9-A).

Local power waits in The Golden yard on a cold winter morning.

Basking in the Colorado sun, UP 9871 (ex DRGW 5401 SD40-T2) always draws a crowd at the Colorado Railroad Museum. It's the youngest piece in the collection, having been built in 1980 for the Denv... (more)

In the mid-1980s, Burlington Northern was operating two to three big trains from 31st Street Yard in Denver out to Coors in Golden, Colorado, on a daily basis. For a good portion of the ’80s, th... (more)

Two sets of local power getting trains ready for the day in Golden. Second set of power is 2 SD40-2’s

Local power idles off in the distance, while 2 former ATSF cabooses sit on a side track! Though nothing of their former glory and graffiti covered, great to find two same roadname Cabeese in the s... (more)

Rio Grande Southern's Galloping Goose #7 can often be found making the run around the grounds of the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Here is one of three ‘Galloping Geese’ owned and operated by the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. Rio Grande Southern No. 2 is the oldest surviving ‘Goose’, having been built ... (more)