Railroad Adventures features
representatives from Amtrak, Tourist
Railroads, Museums and Historical
Societies across the Region.
Amtrak
www.amtrak.com
America’s Passenger Railroad
Forney Museum of transportation
www.forneymuseum.org
The Forney Museum, founded in 1955, is home to almost 600 artifacts
including cars, trains, buggies,
motorcycles, carriages, bicycles and
much more. Come see Amelia Earhart’s
first car and the world’s largest
locomotive- the Union Pacific Big Boy.
Platte Valley Trolley
www.denvertrolley.org
The Platte Valley Trolley is a
non-profit organization that offers
rides on a vintage replica trolley car
riding the rails along the South Platte
River in Denver.
Royal Gorge Route Railroad
www.royalgorgeroute.com
Guests will travel by rail deep beneath
the towering 1,000 foot granite cliffs
of the Royal Gorge, along the tumbling
waters of the Arkansas River, where
eagles soar, bighorn sheep roam and
other wildlife can be spotted. Classes
of service range from Coach, Vista Dome,
Lunch, Dinner Murder Mystery, Santa
Express and Wine Dinners.
Greeley Freight
Station Museum
www.gfsm.org
The museum displays over
1,100 railroad artifacts from across the
United States. Signals, signs, keys,
locks, photos, tools, towels, passes,
timetables, lanterns, etc. The featured
element is a 5,500 sq. foot HO gauge
model railroad layout, will have ten
separate wiring systems, 20+ scale miles
of mainline track, hundreds of buildings
(many of which have been scratch built),
thousands of hand made trees and scenery
never before attempted on a model
railroad.
Denver Society of Model Railroaders
www.denveroscaleclub.org
The Denver Society of Model Railroaders
is an organization dedicated to the
accurate construction and realistic
operation of model trains in 1:48 scale.
Our members own and operate the Colorado
Midland Railway, a true 1:48 scale
standard gauge and narrow gauge model
railroad. The CMR design found its
origins in the prototype Colorado
Midland Railway that traversed Colorado
from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction
and interchanged with the legendary
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
Today's Colorado Midland Railway is a
dynamic model railroad experience that
is focused on America's western
railroads. Model trains and operations
reflect the railroads of Colorado's
past, present, and future.
Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society
www.drgw.org
History and modeling of the D&RGW and affiliated railroads. Quartery
magazine “the Prospector”
Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec
Scenic RR Inc.
www.cumbrestoltec.org
Hidden away in a
little-known corner of the southern
Rocky Mountains on the border of New
Mexico and Colorado is a precious
historic artifact of the American West
that time forgot.
Built in 1880 and little changed since, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic
Railroad is the finest and most
spectacular example of steam era
mountain railroading in North America.
Its equipment, structures and vast
landscape exist today as if frozen in
the first half of the twentieth century.
Leadville, Colorado & Southern
www.leadville-train.com
The
Leadville Colorado &
Southern Railroad is located at 11,000
feet above sea level in Leadville in the
heart of the Rocky Mountains. This
scenic train trip provides 2 and 1/2
hours of sightseeing, relaxation and a
little glimpse back in history. The
train travels another 1,000 feet above
the headwaters of the Arkansas River
Valley. You will travel through pine
forests, aspen groves and view high
alpine meadows sprinkled with an array
of colorful wildflowers in mid summer.
Bring your camera to try to capture a
picture of an eagle. Children have the
chance to meet the engineer.
Railway & Locomotive Historical
Society (R&LHS)
www.rlhs.org
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. is the oldest
organization in North America devoted to
railroad history, and among the first
anywhere to pursue formal studies in the
history of technology. Its object is to
promote research and to encourage
preservation of documentation pertinent
to business history, finance, labor
history, and biography as well as
technology.
Operation
Lifesaver
www.oli.org
Operation Lifesaver is a non-profit,
international continuing public
education program first established in
1972 to end collisions, deaths and
injuries at places where roadways cross
train tracks, and on railroad
rights-of-way.
