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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A slide covered a portion of the tracks with debris and rocks of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad but service is set to resume on Wednesday, the company says. The slide happened on Monday ...

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 ...

The Grand Junction News was ecstatic when it reported the arrival of the first Denver & Rio Grande Railway train in Grand Junction at seven minutes before 5 p.m. on Nov. 21, 1882. “Tuesday will be ...