Crain's
Colorado Narrow Gauge Circle Tour
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada, T4T 2A2 Phone/Fax: 403-845-2527 email us Updated 10 Sep 2005 c.1998 - 2008 E. R. Crain, P.Eng. All Rights Reserved Part
2 : Colorado Railroad Museum
You will find a number of items in a state of repair or rebuild – this is done mostly by volunteers so progress is slow. The paint on many freight cars is showing the effects of sun and weather; the contrast between 1994 and 2004 was striking. I hope CRM has not bitten off more than it can chew. Photos below are mostly from 1994, a few from 2004. While in Denver, visit the new Forney Museum. It is mostly autos and carriages, but there is a 4–8–8–4 Big Boy, a rotary plow, and a few other pieces. I saw these outdoors at the old Forney Museum in 1994. They are now under cover but almost impossible to photograph due to their size and dim lighting. The one-eighth scale trains and buildings of Tiny Town, just south of Denver, are also worth a visit while en-route to Alamosa or Chama.
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"I
am a life-long model railroader and have modeled in O27, HO, HOn3,
and N Scales. Failing eyesight brought me to G Scale. My father
started me in model railroading as a tiny tot in 1944 - he scratch
built his first locomotive in 1940, the year I was born, and I
still have this loco on my mantle-piece. I am a Life Member (#517)
of NMRA, a member of the Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders (Calgary,
Alberta), and have toured a lot of model railways, railway shows,
and garden railways. I have never seen a model railway I didn’t
like. An extensive library of railway magazines and books, covering
topics that appeal to me, sit behind my office desk, ready to
be put to use at a moments notice. I hope these pages can communicate
to you some of my accumulated experience, my successes and failures,
and my love of model railways." |
The
CRM is one of the most valuable narrow gauge resources
in North America. Begun by Robert Richardson in the early
1950’s
in Alamosa, it was moved to Golden in the late 50’s.
With the help of Cornelius Hauck, the collection grew and the
Museum became a non-profit historical foundation. There are
about 100 major pieces of equipment from ancient steamers,
diesels, and gas powered units to all shapes and sizes of rolling
stock, plus a well-preserved paper archive and book store.
You need a good 6 hours on a sunny day to do justice to the
CRM. Depending on the day, there may be rides behind an old
steam engine, an antique diesel, or an RGS Goose. 
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