The Colorado Railroad Museum is the oldest railroad museum in the state. They moved to their present site in 1958 and have a large collection of 3-foot equipment as well as standard gauge equipment.
They have brought in a crane to lift two of their car bodies onto shop trucks. Once the D&RGW #307 passenger car and D&RGW #168 baggage car get moved into the Roundhouse/Restoration Shop they will build passenger car trucks for them.
They are just finishing a pair of passenger trucks for their Uintah #50. This is a wood combine with steel sheathing over it. There are only three passenger cars left from that famous railroad. Recent pictures on their turntable at the web site show it looking rather good!
The South Park #191 is the oldest steam locomotive in Colorado, built by Baldwin in 1881 as their C/N 4,919. It is cosmetically restored at the museum. It ended up in Wisconsin and Bob Richardson sent a Thunder Bay Lumber Company (local) locomotive in trade for the South Park 2-8-0. It is getting spruced up for the Narrow Gauge Convention to be held later this summer in Denver.
Ted Miles, CRRM and WW&F Member
