Colorado Railroad Museum

Historian Charles Albi comments on this new title: "For the first time, here is the complete story of Rio Grande's standard gauge passenger car fleet from the wooden cars of the 1880s through to the ski train of the 1980s. Included is a year-by-year history of passenger service, detailed rosters of different eras, famous trains like the California Zephyr and obscure ones like the San Luis.

It is the result of many years of research and will become the definitive source of information on this fascinating topic."Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover, 352 pages, 11 x 8.5 x .75 in., over 400 images (more than half in Color), many images are published for the first time. Numerous illustrations of timetables, railroad passes, dining car menus and advertising matter.

Features:

• New Hardcover Mike B. Davis and Herb Danneman Colorado Railroad Museum

Colorado Railroad Museum, softcover, 44 pages, 8.5 x 11 x.25 in., over 60 B&W images, 1 color page of Rio Grande reefers at the CRA.

Ice houses were a new concept when the country's railroads finally began to use them to replenish the ice necessary to keep their customers' perishable items from spoiling in transit. Railroads were reluctant users of refrigerated cars in the first place, but large shippers such as meat packers, breweries, and produce suppliers demanded they use this method to ship perishable goods.

In Colorado Ice Houses the author uses photographs, drawings and maps to skillfully explore this unique subject.

Contents:

• Colorado Railroad Ice Houses, pp. 5–37
• List of Ice Houses, pp. 38–40
• Folio Sheets of Railroad Reefers (reefer car diagrams both standard and narrow gauge), pp. 41–43
• Bibliography, p. 44.

Hardcover, 384 pages, 290+ illustrations, maps, drawings and documents.

In the annuals of railroading, Golden, Colorado holds an almost mythical status. Steam railroads (both standard and narrow gauge) served the city, along with two electric interurban railways and even funicular railways! This book also explores Golden's early history, predecessor companies and more!In this brand-new Colorado Rail Annual, Golden resident and historian Dan Abbott brings the subject to life through contemporary accounts and an amazing array of vintage photography!This carefully researched, and artistically written work features 384 pages filled with 290+ illustrations (including 140 B&W Photos, 10 Color Photos, 85+ Colorized Photos, 25 Maps, 5 Drawings, 20+ scanned documents), an index and bibliography.

Casebound and Smythe-sewn, with a handsome full-color dust jacket, 11"x8-1/2".

Contents:

• Golden's Streets
• The Beginning, pp. 7–38
• The Steam Roads, pp. 39–166
• The Interurbans, pp. 167–260
• The Funiculars, pp. 261–316
• Odds and Ends
• Landslide
• Robberies
• Quarries
• Stockyards, etc., pp. 358
• Employee Roster
• Index
• Photo Index
• Bibliography, pp. 359–384. Features: New Hardcover Dan Abbott Colorado Railroad Museum 2024

The San Luis Valley is an interesting little short line located in southern Colorado and overlooked by rail enthusiasts on their way to the narrow gauge railroads. The chapters include a discussion of the geography, history of ownership and the challenges of the future.The Greeley Branch of the Union Pacific chapters include data such as mileages, some color pictures of Union Pacific steam, and some B&W images of depots.The Arkansas Valley Railway was a branch of the Kansas Pacific Railroad and connected Kit Carson, Colorado with Las Animas, Colorado.

This is a very lonely area on the high plains of eastern Colorado.In this title are detailed three unusual "Colorado Railroads Without Mountains."The 15-mile San Luis Central has faithfully served a rich agricultural district in the San Luis Valley for over a century, owning only three locomotives during its lifetime.

Having outlived many more famous lines, its full history is presented here for the first time by John Gruber and John Ryan.Union Pacific's Greeley branch tapped a rich sugar beet growing area, and its fortunes rose and fell along with the once important Colorado sugar industry.

Historian Kenton Forrest gives a complete account of the railroad line and the area it served for many years.The Arkansas Valley Railway is famous for being the first Colorado railroad abandonment. Author Robert W.

McLeod provides a detailed history of the important role it played at the dawn of the railroad era in the West.Contents:About the Authors, p. 4, San Luis Central, pp. 5–88,The San Luis Valley, The Sugar Beet Factory, The Railroad, The McLean Era, The Burkhardt Era, The Water Problem, Index.

Greeley East: The History of the Greeley Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, pp. 89–138,The Branch Lines History, Passenger Trains on the Greeley Branch, Historical Notes on the Greeley Branch, Abandonment of the Branch, What If?, People Along the Branch Line, Bibliography, Notes, Index.

Arkansas Valley Railway, pp. 139–201,Thunder on the Prairie, Then a Whistle on the Wind, the Complete Story of the Life and Times of a Branch Line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Bibliography and References, pp. 202–207,Index, pp. 208–210.Colorado Railroad Museum, hardbound, 220 pages, 11 x 8.5 x.75 in., extensive text, Color and B&W photography.Features: New Hardcover John Gruber and John Ryan; Kenton Forrest; Robert W.

McLeod Colorado Railroad Museum

Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 264 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., B&W and Color photographs and illustrations.

A history of Colorado kilns, ovens, furnaces and rails The first detailed study of Colorado's coke and ore smelting industries and their importance to the state's mountain railroads. Individual histories of dozens of historic sites including GPS locators for exploration.

Five full color, full page reproductions of Otto Kuhler paintings. Over 240 historic and contemporary photographs, drawings, maps and charts. Steam locomotive rosters of the major smelters.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments, Introduction and Preface, pp. 9–12
• Ch. 1: Betsy from Pike, pp. 13–46
• Ch. 2: Coke and Smoke, pp. 47–128
• Ch. 3: Brick Beehives, pp. 129–178
• Ch. 4: Silver Furnaces, pp. 179–216
• Ch. 5: Iron Horses, pp. 217–237
• Appendix A - List of Smelters, pp. 238–247
• Appendix B - Locomotive Rosters, p. 248
• Appendix C - GPS Locations, p. 249
• End Notes, pp. 250–254
• Glossary, p. 255
• Bibliography, p. 256-258
• Index, pp. 259–264.

Ticket To Ride the Narrow Gauge: A chronological history of Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge passenger trains and their equipment 1871-1981. Colorado Rail Annual No. 24.This study is the fruit of nearly 20 years' research by the author in the archives of Colorado Railroad Museum, Denver Public Library Western History Department, Colorado HS, California State Railroad Museum, and many private collections.

A foreword by D&RGW historian Jackson C. Thode sets the tone for this definitive reference. Year-by-year rosters untangle the complex genealogy of car rebuilding and renumbering. Schedules and equipment assignments include Denver & Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western and its Utah antecedents, Rio Grande Southern, Florence & Cripple Creek, and the Silverton short lines.

Surviving cars on Durango & Silverton, Cumbres & Toltec and Huckleberry railroads are included. You will find locomotive rosters, a list of dining stations, timetables, correspondence, advertisements, and other tidbits of narrow-gauge history.Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with jacket, 272 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., over 300 photographs and illustrations including several in color, Bibliography.

Features:

• Hardcover Herbert Danneman Colorado Railroad Museum

Here is the most thorough listing ever compiled of the post offices, stations and branches which have existed in the state of Colorado. Included are the opening and closing dates for each, and the location by county.This book is a complete revision and updating of the original study of 20 years ago, and contains additional data in several areas.

Colorado Post Offices is of interest not only to those in the rapidly expanding field of postal history, but it also provides a valuable reference for anyone intrigued by Colorado history and the state's many fascinating ghost towns and mining camps.Colorado Railroad Museum, hard cover, 228 pages, standard portrait book 10 x 8 in., 40 photographs, reproductions of 44 historic postal covers and 80 rare cancellations.

Features: New Hardcover William H. Bauer, James L. Ozment, John H.

Willard Colorado Railroad Museum

Softcover, 32 pages, over 30 photographs, many in color, including a locomotive drawing, printed on quality, coated paper.

Author Stan Rhine shines a light on the fascinating history of Rio Grande Southern Steam Locomotive No. 20. Built in 1899, featured in Hollywood films, and operated by one of the most famous narrow gauge railroads in Colorado, the locomotive lead a storied career before becoming a Museum display piece.

Material from Museum founder "Corny" Hauck and Executive Director Paul Hammond provide additional insight.

Contents:

• 4-6-0 History, pp. 1–2
• The Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad, pp. 3–4
• The F&CC's Locomotives
• The End of the F&CC, pg. 5
• The Rio Grande Southern Railroad, pp. 5–7,"Ticket to Tomahawk"
• Ten-Wheeler in Greasepaint, pg. 8
• The 20 Goes to Work, pg. 9
• The End of the RGS
• A New Beginning for No. 20, pp. 10–11
• Photos, pp. 12–13
• Engine No. 20 Drawing, pp. 14–15
• Photos, pg. 16
• Finding the 20 - At Work!, pp. 17–18
• Photos, pp. 19–20
• Restoring No. 20: An Amazing Journey, pp. 21–25
• National Register Certificate, pg. 26
• Additional Reading, the Authors, pp. 27–28. Features: New Softcover Stan Rhine
• Cornelius Hauck and Paul Hammond Colorado Railroad Museum

Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 290 pages, 8.5 x 11 x.75 inch, data and drawings, CD inside back cover.

Colorado Railroad Water Tanks is a historical tour of the water tanks of Colorado's steam railroad era. Steam locomotives required a large quantity of water to generate the required amount of steam for motive power.

Colorado railroads operated over six hundred tanks located along the approximately 6,000 miles of track. The six hundred tanks and their locations are listed in an index and documented with construction dates, sizes, water sources and pumping equipment, when the information is available.

The process and history of bringing water from its source to the locomotive's tender is explained and illustrated. Included are 289 pages with over 260 color and black & white photographs (about 95% B&W), maps and illustrations of tanks and water equipment! Drawings, illustrations, maps and photographs in digital form are also included on a CD.

Tanks that still remain are listed and located with GPS data for those wishing to visit these reminders of Colorado's railroad past.

Contents:

• PART 1: History Tenders and Tanks, pp. 10–22
• Wells, Windmills and Other Equipment, pp. 23–42
• PART 2: Tank Locations, Railroads and Index, pp. 43–59
• PART 3: Water Service Locations Union Pacific, pp. 60–99
• Denver & Rio Grande, pp. 100–161
• Rio Grande Southern, pp. 162–167
• Santa Fe, pp. 168–186
• Colorado Midland, pp. 187–199
• Colorado & Southern (including DSS&P), pp. 200–229
• Missouri Pacific, pp. 230–233
• Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, pp. 234–236
• Moffat Route, pp. 237–248
• Other Railroads, pp. 249–270
• Surviving Water Tanks, pp. 271–283
• Glossary, Bibliography, pp. 284–290
• Media on CD.

Casebound and smythe-sewn, with a handsome full-color dustjacket, 369 pages, landscape format 11 x 8.5 in., 461 illustrations, 86 illustrations in Color, 27 maps, 35 plans and equipment drawings, extensive endnotes and index.

Colorado Rail Annual No. 34 by Adrian and Art Hundhausen with material not published before. The color images will of course not be photographs, but images of ephemera. This Colorado Railroad Museum's latest Annual is the result of authors Adrian and Art Hundhausen's lifelong interest in the Colorado Midland Railroad.

Carefully researched and artistically written, this is a book that fans of the Colorado Midland won't want to miss! The road's history from 1887 to 1900 is detailed, along with the human side of the Midland narrative.

Colorful stories found in this new volume include the trials and tribulations of Midland employees, drunken Swedish miners who fell off the train, and a father chasing his runaway daughter to Leadville serve as fascinating examples.

Interesting chapters such as "Spooky Victorian Railroad Stations and Hotels", "Ride with a Mormon to Old Mexico," and "Trip with a Kodak over Hagerman Pass" compel further reading. Salient topics - such as the 1894 Cripple Creek Strike and the Pullman boycott in Colorado - are covered in much greater detail than in previous books.

A selection of timetables and advertising brochures is faithfully reproduced, showcasing the vivid color and imaginative illustrations used by CM in the 19th century. Plentiful diagrams of Pullman cars, maps of Midland trackage, and schematics of depots are included.

Contents:

• New
• Hardcover
• Adrian and Art Hundhausen
• Colorado Railroad Museum

This Volume on the history of the Denver Tramway highlights the four interurban lines that operate out of the city. Learn about the Denver Lakewood & Golden standard-gauge line to Golden, the Denver Tramway, or Denver & Northwestern lines that ran from Denver to Golden and Leyden and the Denver & Interurban, a subsidiary of the Colorado & Southern Railway.

These interurban lines were unique innovations for their time, but you will discover in Volume III how the transit system changed to the light rail of the Regional Transportation District. This Volume also includes 21 different Denver Tramway Information Tables that illustrate station lists, bridges, structures, telephones, locomotives, equipment, coaches, buses and Tramway employees.

By Don Robertson & Kenton Forrest. More than 330 images, mostly historic B&W photographs, 112 maps, transfers, tickets, data charts, etc. Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 376 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., B&W photographs, rosters, charts and maps.

Learn about the Rio Grande Southern's Galloping Geese from those early days in 1931 to the end of passenger service in 1951. Journey through the memories of those who rode these unique vehicles over Lizard Head Pass and the trestles of Ophir Loop.

Robert "Bob" LeMassena remembers "Well, I held my breath for most of it.."

Cornelius Hauck recalls "Riding a Galloping Goose was an interesting, slow motion experience.."

William "Bill" Kratville mentions, "The scenery aspect of the Rio Grande Southern was spectacular.."

Richard "Dick" Kindig thinks back, "Their track wasn't very good and the Goose itself wasn't very sprung.."

Produced by Richard W. Luckin. Copyright 2009 CRM.

Colorado Railroad Museum, B&W and Color, 27 minutes.

This book contains interior and exterior photographs, folio sheets with dimensions, floor plans, and detailed rosters of every car used in narrow gauge passenger train service on the Denver & Rio Grande. A valuable and usable source of information for modelers, historians, and D&RGW fans interested in the transition from the early 4-wheel cars, tourist sleepers, RPO and express cars, through the modernized San Juan Express to the Silver Vista and the new steel cars for the Silverton Train.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 328 pages, 11 x 8.5 x .75 in., over 200 photographs.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., over 300 photographs; acid free paper.

Contents:

• In the Mountains of Utah by Jackson Thode and James L. Ozment. Early construction on the Rio Grande in the mountains of Utah and across Soldier Summit. The fascinating 1881-1882 journal of Francis Hodgeman, written when he was surveying the D&RGW mainline across eastern Utah. Includes supplement map of Utah showing the surveys and construction, pp. 10–97. The Denver Post's Frontier Days Special by Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest. A story about the Denver Post's special train operated once a year from Denver to Cheyenne's Frontier Days Rodeo, pp. 114–153. The Greatest Train by Alexis McKinney. A personal reminiscence of the Frontier Days, pp. 154–169. General Palmer's Other Narrow Gauge by Robert A. LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge. Includes supplement map opposite the Utah map, pp. 98–113. An Overview of Union Pacific's Articulated Steam Power by R.H Kindig and R.C. Farewell, pp. 170–240.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 236 pages, 8.5 x 11 x.5 in., over 220 illustrations; 8 maps; some color reproductions and photographs, acid free paper.

A Century of Colorado Passenger Trains by various authors.

Contents:

• Colorado Midland Passenger Service New York-1918 by William F. Gale. This detailed study provides new insights into the Midland's operations and is lavishly illustrated, pp. 9–119. Silverton Trilogy: Fifty Years of Passenger Service. Covers the famed Silverton Train's emergence since 1941 in three chapters-the transition from mixed train to tourist train by Robert W. Richardson, the Rio Grande's development programs of the mid-60s by John S. Walker Jr., and coverage of the new independent Durango & Silverton by R.C. Farewell, pp. 142–219. Streetcars and Suburbs by Thomas J. Noel. Traces the early history of Denver's urban rail system-horse, cable, steam and electric, pp. 120–141. Zimbabwe Steam Safari Donald C. Hill. Offers a contrasting view of narrow gauge steam railroading in southern Africa, pp. 142–236.

Pueblo is one of eight cities in Colorado that once had a street railway. For a full century, the Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill dominated the economy of the city, and this affected the development of the transit system as well. In Pueblo's Steel Town Trolleys, Morris Cafkey and John Haney skillfully trace the fascinating story from beginning to end.

At first there were horse cars and later, many of the electric trolleys were built by the Woeber Carriage Company of Denver. In the final years, ex-Colorado Springs Birney cars dominated the fleet. By 1940, Pueblo was one of the only cities where not a single motor bus operated in transit service. Included are the stories of the terrible 1921 flood, the heavy traffic to the annual Colorado State Fair, first-hand recollections of riders and employees, detailed descriptions of routes and track, and equipment rosters.

Colorado Railroad Museum, softcover, 144 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., black and white and color photographs, 2 system maps.