#Colorado railroads

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[2000ghosts]

june 22, 2009

[nmnomad]

The historic Cumbres-Toltec train chugs along at a top speed of 12 mph, providing a leisurely 6-hour sojourn through the scenic San Juan mountains between Chama, New Mexico and Antonito, Colorado on the original 64-miles of tracks laid in 1880. The train crosses the borders of Colorado and New Mexico 11 times, passing through high mountain passes, alpine meadows, and conifer and aspen forests that are mostly inaccessible by car.

[jacobmartellaphotography]

Located in Golden, Colorado, at the base of the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Railroad Museum houses historical railroad equipment that could be seen throughout the state, including steam engines, diesel engines and passenger cars from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and other railroads in the state.

[supplyside]

In late summer of 1987, a Denver & Rio Grande Western freight, en route from Salt Lake City to Denver, eases through ti canyons sharp curves behind three SD40T-2s, Those poles against the canyon wall? They hold electrified wire that trip block signals to red when rocks break loose from above and foul the track. -Gary Benson, Rolling Thunder

[eopederson]

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad Watering Station, Osier, Colorado, 1998.

[faguscarolinensis]

One River North in Denver, CO

[20th-century-railroading]

D&IM train, engine number 1106, engine type Electric B-B and engine number 1107, engine type Electric B-B Freight, eastbound; 7 cars. Photographed: East of Golden, Colo., March 14, 1953.

[dukewilbury]

Silverton Express

[eltristan]

TUNNEL #29

Looking at some random downloads, realized a common theme was that Tunnel #29 is The. Cutest. Tunnel.

The 2% grade from Denver up to the Moffat Tunnel crawls through South Bend Canyon (along South Bend Creek) with superfluous tunnels and a surfeit of sharp curves, thanks to the mandate of then-Chief Engineer H.A. Sumneso who surveyed the Moffat Route's well-nicknamed "tunnel district" at bountiful π/1 ratio of rail to "as the crow flies" distance as he tried every trick not to make it steeper than 2%

A blasted rock bore barely 78 feet in length, tight-clearance Tunnel 29 on the Moffat Route is at milepost 36.38 and sandwiched between one of Sumneso's super-tight 12° cruves and the "curved bridge with no name" over South Bend Creek (which is officially named "Bridge 36.45" after it's milepost location) The feature on the creek's right bank seems to be locally nicknamed the Gibraltar Cliffs, from whence railfans look down on the tiny trains below.

The cutest tunnel? Yep. Did I mention the Ski Train?

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[gblahlife]

Leadville, Colorado. July 2024.

[mysimsimworld]

Trains at the top of the World

[nmnomad]

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains

[jacobmartellaphotography]

Located in Golden, Colorado, the Colorado State Museum is home to a large collection of railroad equipment from the Denver & Rio Grande Western including narrow gauge steam engines and even a couple of Galloping Geese from the Rio Grand Southern.

[wildwithlight]

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad