Colorado Railroad Museum
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| Established | 1959 |
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| Location | 17155 W 44th Ave Golden, Colorado 80403 |
| Type | railroad museum |
| Director | Donald Tallman |
| Public transit access | none |
| Website | coloradorailroadmuseum |
The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum. The museum is located on 15 acres (6.1 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.
The 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, artifacts, books and documents illustrating the histories of the railroads which have served the state for over 125 years.
The museum's roundhouse, named the Cornelius W. Hauck Restoration Facility, was dedicated on July 15, 2000. It allows museum visitors to observe restoration work safely. The building's brick design was chosen to reflect a fairly prosperous railroad in a small division point during the late nineteenth century.
The roundhouse area includes a display of locomotives and cars on the "radial" tracks, as well as a fully functioning 90-foot (27.4 m), Armstrong turntable.
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