Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 1979
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197944 viewsChicago Burlington & Quincy No. 5629 (S) built in 1940 by the Burlington Route Railroad in their own shops and used for heavy freight and passenger service. It remained in service until the early 1960s, when it was purchased by the Intermountain Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and moved to the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1963. No. 5629 is one of only four Burlington locomotives of its type still in existence
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197948 views
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197946 views
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197940 views
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197947 viewsFort Collins Municipal Railway No. 22 was built by the American Car Co. of St. Louis in 1919 and was used until 1951, when streetcar services stopped. The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club purchased it and put it on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum.
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197944 views
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197943 viewsDenver Leadville & Gunnison No. 191 (N) is the oldest steam locomotive in Colorado. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in early 1880, this engine moved gold and silver ore, coal, timber and merchandise between Denver and many mountain communities in central and southwestern Colorado.
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197943 viewsRio Grande Southern No. 0404 (N)
This caboose was part of the last freight train to run on the Rio Grande Southern railroad in southwestern Colorado in 1951.
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Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO April 197942 viewspossibly Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 318 (N)
D&RGW No. 318 was the product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia and completed in January of 1896. It is a C-18 consolidation locomotive sporting the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement of that class. Its life started on the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad. The Rio Grande purchased the engine in 1917 for $2000 and assigned it the number of 428. It was later renumbered 318 and spent much of its Rio Grande life plying passenger and freight trains out of Sal
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