DOLORES, Colo. -- Before the Galloping Goose No. 5 rail car carried passengers and mail to and from Dolores in the 1930s and 40s, freight trains and steam locomotives dominated the historic railroad ...

Charles E. Bradshaw saw a family friendly attraction in historic railway’s future Forty years ago, the historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad faced an uncertain future. The heyday of ...

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 ...

WESTCLIFFE -- Sometimes, life just isn't fair. That's probably how the founders of Silver Cliff felt in 1881 when the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad built a narrow-gauge line that stopped a mile west of ...

In Southwest Colorado, in the 1880s, Animas City expected big things. Railroads were expanding deeper into the state, and the Denver and Rio Grande was coming. But it stopped a couple of miles south ...

A slide covered a portion of the tracks with debris and rocks of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad but service is set to resume on Wednesday, the company says. The slide happened on Monday ...

When Charles E. Bradshaw Jr. bought the Durango to Silverton branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1981, it marked an important turning point for the economies of both Durango and Silverton.