Colorado Railroad Museum: bits and pieces

Rio Grande F9s

The last service of these F9 units was pulling the Denver Ski Train for a couple years in the early 1980's after they retired from the last non-Amtrak long-distance passenger service in the US.

Speeders

An REA cart used for storage behind the roundhouse

Men at work signs behind the roundhouse

D&RGW narrow gauge stock car

End of the line.

Colorado Railroad Museum: 12 and 14

Shays are common on narrow gauge lines in the west. I just like the odd appearance and features of those locomotives with the offset boiler, side-pistons and gears.

 

Colorado Railroad Museum: RPO

CB&Q 254 is a combined baggage / railway post office car. There is no connection between the post-office half of the car, and the baggage section.

The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento has a full-length, streamlined Great Northern RPO car on exhibit which has been restored very nicely. However, I really liked how the CRM put together the sorting scene in this car.

"No excuses will be accepted..."

Colorado Railroad Museum: Gooses

The Colorado Railroad Museum has 3 of the 7 "Galloping Gooses" that the Rio Grande Southern (RGS) railroad converted from buses and cars in the early 1900's to make their operations more efficient and cost-effective.

The gooses got their name from the "waddling" appearance when they rode over the  badly maintained tracks...

In the last few years before the line was abandoned the RGS ran tourist trips up into the mountains.

Colorado Railroad Museum: 318

Narrow-gauge locomotive #318 was built in 1896 by Baldwin and served on the Rio Grande narrow gauge lines.

I went to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO this morning. They have an extensive collection of rolling stock and naturally quite a bit of it is narrow gauge. The photos below are details of locomotive #318.

Don't even think about it ...

Springs above one of the drivers

Pumps

One of my favorites