Rio Grande’s “Scenic Line of the World” logo spans weathered wooden boards on a 3-foot gauge drop-bottom gon at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado, on August 10, 2015.

Galloping Goose 7 at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

5629 Steam engine at the Colorado Railroad Museum

Galloping Goose 6 and 346 Steam engine at the Colorado Railroad Museum

The dual gauge trackage creates an interesting array of rails. (Note, photo was taken from a public crossing while the train was stopped.)

491 passes an old Rio Grande Flanger as it makes a lap around the roundhouse.

An 1896 vintage narrow gauge museum piece looks on as her larger and younger stablemate steams around the CO RR Museum.

This 60-3 class Shay has had an interesting history. It was built in 1916 for the famed West Side Lumber Co, and is one of many surviving Shays from this line. It came to CO in the 1970s and spent... (more)

This tiny narrow gauge unit spent its working life with US Gypsum until acquired by the museum in 1965. Since that time it has been used to moving equipment around the museum.

K-37 #491 makes laps around the short 1/3 mile museum loop.

K-37 #491 makes laps around the short 1/3 mile museum loops while Thomas makes laps on the G scale garden layout.

491 with Passengers

This little three foot gauge 2-8-0 at the Colorado Railroad Museum has a long and varied history. As the Denver, South Park and Pacific learned that their Mason Bogie locomotives were too light on... (more)

There are a number of private homes that sit next to the Colorado Railroad Museum's tracks. I wonder if they have come to love the real sounds of steam or always have plans on the weekends when t... (more)

DRGW 491 was rebuilt in 1930 at the Burnham Shops in Denver (now extinct) and converted from a 4 foot to a 3 foot gauge configuration. Designated K-37 class, the unique frame configuration had th... (more)