When this reporter first arrived in Carbondale, the trains transporting Mid-Continent coal were still active, and automobile drivers would often have to sit in their idling cars for several minutes, ...

When he founded his small railroad in 1870, Gen. William Jackson Palmer didn’t plan to make it the most renowned mountain railroad in the country. He simply wanted to connect Denver with Colorado ...

Railroad History, known as the R&LHS; Bulletin from 1921 until 1972, is the oldest railroad history journal in North America. It contains original scholarship and fresh interpretations that set the ...

The town of Minturn celebrated its 120th birthday this month. Minturn was incorporated on Nov. 15, 1904, but had been in existence since 1887 when the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad reached ...

The first confrontation in the Royal Gorge Railroad War occurred not in the Royal Gorge, but near the top of Raton Pass in February 1878. No shots were fired that day, but there may have been some ...