Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the rails) fad that began ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of railroad museums and scenic train rides are across the U.S., many offering a way to “step back in time” or “relive yesteryear.” But few deliver quite like the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic ...