ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 has a tough act to beat during the week this week after a stellar Sunday, May 5 appearance heading to its final destination for the day, Rock Springs, Wyo. Much of the local community turned out to see the 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive, but the big […]
Zone & Region: Mountain West
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad opens 2019 season NEWSWIRE
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad began its full season on May 4, 2019, with the first train from Durango, Colo., to Silverton, Colo. The first train was met with fanfare, including the Silverton Brass Band and folks dressed in 19th-century apparel. The Silverton Gunfighters performed a reenactment of a gunfight between the good […]
Special Disneyland Exhibit at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Doug Gary brought his Disneyland model from New Mexico to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. Doug started building the display in 1998, and has been adding to it and traveling with it ever since. The trains on the layout are N scale. The layout is 4 by 20 feet. It’s made up of 9 modules, […]
Special Disneyland Exhibit at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
Doug Gary brought his Disneyland model from New Mexico to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. Doug started building the display in 1998, and has been adding to it and traveling with it ever since. The trains on the layout are N scale. The layout is 4 by 20 feet. It’s made up of 9 modules, […]
Big Boy 4014 in Cheyenne NEWSWIRE
Big crowds greet the arrival of Union Pacific’s restored Big Boy No. 4014 as it arrives at the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot for its christening ceremony. After UP CEO Lance Fritz and his wife christen the massive locomotive, it departs with UP’s other active steam engine, 4-8-4 No. 844, on the start of its trip to […]
Crowds greet Big Boy in Laramie NEWSWIRE
Huge crowds gather at the Union Pacific depot in Laramie, Wyo., to greet the arrival of Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 as they make the first stop on their journey to Utah for the Golden Spike sesquicentennial. Follow Trains News Wire for more on this historic trip. […]
Big Boy debuts with test run NEWSWIRE
UP Big Boy No. 4014 departs Cheyenne, Wyo., just before sunset on Thursday on its first test run. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn Why, yes, it is big: UP’s newly restored Big Boy heads out of Cheyenne on Thursday. Another test run is possible today. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Running into a setting sun, newly […]
Cumbres & Toltec to run rotary plow in 2020 NEWSWIRE
Rotary OY rests at Chama, N.M., in August 2018. The railroad expects to run the plow, and offer a limited number of tickets to the event, in early 2020. Jim Wrinn CHAMA, N.M. – The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad plans to operate its 3-foot-gauge rotary snow plow for the first time in nearly a […]
Deep snow, lounge car helps increase ‘Winter Park Express’ ridership NEWSWIRE
Excellent ski conditions and the addition of a lounge car helped increase ridership on the Winter Park Express in 2019. Justin Franz WINTER PARK, Colo. — More than 19,200 skiers and snowboarders rode Amtrak’s Winter Park Express this winter, a 7% increase over the train’s 2018 season and an 8% increase over its inaugural season […]
Denver RTD will look at interim plan to start rail service to Boulder, Longmont NEWSWIRE
An RTD A Line train from the Denver Airport returns to grade after crossing the bridge over Interstate 70 on its way to downtown. The RTD has reaffirmed its commitment to complete four unfinished rail corridors, and will look at an interim plan to begin service on one of those routes. TRAINS: David Lassen DENVER […]
Durango & Silverton plows through avalanches to reopen line NEWSWIRE
This slide near Needleton was more than of 60 feet deep. Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge DURANGO, Colo. – Wildfires, mudslides, and now avalanches. There isn’t much Mother Nature hasn’t thrown at Colorado’s Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the past 12 months, but despite all of that, railroad officials there say they are […]
Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 passes hydrostatic test in Colorado NEWSWIRE
No. 168 undergoes a hydro test on Tuesday under the supervision of the Federal Railroad Administration. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic ANTONITO, Colo. – Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 – a 136-year-old locomotive under restoration at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic – passed a hydrostatic test on Tuesday. The successful test was witnessed by […]
