| 词条 | Colorado Railroad Museum |
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| name = Colorado Railroad Museum | image = Colorado Railroad musemLogo.JPG | established = 1959 | location = 17155 W 44th Ave Golden, Colorado 80403 | type = railroad museum | director = Donald Tallman | publictransit = none | website = {{URL|http://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/}} }} The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum. The museum is located on {{convert|15|acre|ha}} at a point where Clear Creek flows between North and South Table Mountains in Golden, Colorado. The museum was established in 1959 to preserve a record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow gauge mountain railroads. FacilitiesThe museum building is a replica of an 1880s-style railroad depot. Exhibits feature original photographs by pioneer photographers such as William Henry Jackson and Louis Charles McClure, as well as paintings by Howard L Fogg, Otto Kuhler, Ted Rose and other artists. Locomotives and railroad cars modeled in the one inch scale by Herb Votaw are also displayed. A bay window contains a reconstructed depot telegrapher's office, complete with a working telegraph sounder. The lower level of the museum building contains an exhibition hall which features seasonal and traveling displays on railroading history. The lower level also contains the Denver HO Model Railroad Club's "Denver and Western" operating HO and HOn3 scale model train layout that represent Colorado's rail history in miniature. The Robert W. Richardson Library houses over 10,000 rare historic photographs, Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway no 683 was built in 1890 by the Baldwin locomotive works and spent much of his time, pulling coal trains in the eastern United States it was donated to the Colorado Railroad Museum in July 9th 1982. CollectionThe museum has a large collection of {{RailGauge|3ft|lk=on}} narrow gauge rolling stock, and provides narrow gauge train rides on special event days known as "Steam Up days". The museum also has ex-Denver and Rio Grande Western RR No. 683, a coal burning 2-8-0 consolidation built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1890, builders number 11207. It is the only surviving {{RailGauge|4ft8.5in|allk=on}} steam locomotive from the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. All of the railroad equipment is displayed outdoors. Display tracks are complete with a rare three-way stub switch, dual gauge track and switches, and century-old switch stands. These tracks hold over 100 historic narrow and standard gauge locomotives and cars. The {{convert|1/3|mi|km}} oval of {{RailGauge|3ft}} gauge track is used by trains on operating days. The museum's roster contains the following notable pieces of rolling stock:[1] Chicago Burlington & Quincy no 5629 / year built 1934 Chicago Burlington & Quincy no 5629 or Burlington Route 5629 is a 4-8-4 Northern type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin locomotive Works in 1934 it was at the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1972. Rio Grande 491 / year built 1902 Rio Grande 491 is a 2-8-2 Mikado-type Narrow Gauge steam locomotive steam locomotive built by the Baldwin locomotive Works in 1902. It was placed on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum in 2000. Rio Grande 346 / build date July 1881 Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad no 346 was built in July 1881 by the Baldwin locomotive Works in Philadelphia Pennsylvania does 346 has its very own class sister the locomotive number 318. Rio Grande 318 / year built 1881 Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway no 1/ year built 1891 Rio Grande southern 20 / year built 1884 Colorado and Southern 191 / year built 1892 Diesel locomotives
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See also{{Portal|Trains|Colorado}}
References1. ^{{cite book |author= |title=Museum Guide |location=Golden, Colorado |date=c. 2015 |publisher=Colorado Railroad Museum}} External links{{Commons category|Colorado Railroad Museum}}
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