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Colorado Railroad Museum, 2023. Softcover. New. Softcover, 108 pages, more than 110 photographs, illustrations and maps, most in B&W. This is the Revised and Expanded Edition. This book is a bargain at this price. I expect the museum to raise the price eventually. Explore these fascinating and unique railroad motorcars in this expanded and revised edition which contains… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Softcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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,… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Softcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. Some of the most magnificent main line railroading anywhere can be found in the western Colorado-eastern Utah desert country. A detailed and photographic history of the route is presented for the first time in R.C. Farewell's Rio Grande Secret Places, Volume II, which portrays both the desert and its Ruby Canyon in spectacular… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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,… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Softcover. New. Revised, expanded edition. The dream, construction, operation and transition of the tunnel, from steam to diesel and from the Denver & Salt Lake, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Southern Pacific and to now the Union Pacific. Colorado Railroad Museum, soft cover, 52 pages, standard portrait book 8 x 10 in., B&W photographs and… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Softcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. Railroading In The Rockies Half a Century Ago Colorado Rail Annual No. 18. Contents: Eastward Ho: A Tale of Two Young Californians' Journey to Colorado by Ted Wurm. Bob Gray and Ted Wurm headed to Colorado in 1939 to see railroading in Colorado, pp. 9-95. Westward Ho: A Record of a Coloradoan's Rail… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. Utah-Idaho-Montana Issue by various authors. Contents: Utah & Northern by Mallory Hope Ferrell. A history of the Ogden-Butte line of the Union Pacific Railroad which started out as the narrow gauge Utah & Northern, pp. 9-81. Union Pacific: Montana Division by Cornelius W. Hauck. A profusely illustrated story of the operations on the… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. 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… Read more about this item