On Friday, December 12, and Saturday, December 13, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Chris P, Ben, Jerod, Chris T, Dannis, Polly, Nick, Henry, Kendall, Reid, Justin, Chris F, Ron, John, Michael, Diana, Demetris, Teia and Paul worked very hard to give over 380 guests a delightful train ride and a merry experience to welcome the Christmas season to the Pueblo area. The weather helped out by being chilly but very nice overall through both evenings.

Friday evening was very busy, while Saturday had a slow start, but soon livened up as it got dark. The crews had a good time helping our guests, and a lot of guests were seen smiling!

I have included a few pictures from both evenings’ festivities. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

Join the Pueblo Railway Museum for our “Pueblo Express” public Christmas Train Ride event on Friday and Saturday, December 12 and 13, Friday and Saturday, December 19 and 20, and Wednesday December 24. Train rides will be available from 4PM to 8PM behind the Pueblo Union Depot. Train ride tickets are $15 for a ride in the engine, and $10 for a ride in one of our three cabooses. Children under 3 ride the train free! Cash or check preferred, but credit cards accepted. Train ride tickets can only be purchased during the event. Purchase your tickets at our Gift Shop, a converted caboose behind the Depot, near the passenger boarding area. Trains depart every 20 minutes, so there will be multiple opportunities during the event to ride the train.

Our mini train will once again be on display, in cooperation with the Pueblo Downtown Association. Our Christmas-themed model trains will be open for viewing, free of charge. Enjoy cocoa and cookies in our Diner Car, also free of charge. There is no admission fee to attend the event itself. The charge is only for the train ride.

Our train ride event schedule for 2026 will be posted soon on our Events Page. To receive updates about our upcoming events, follow our blog. Enter your email address on the bottom of this web page and click the “follow” button.

On Saturday, December 6, volunteers Dwight, Bruce, Chris, Colin, Jerod, Polly, Dannis, Nick and Paul splashed around in the melting snow to get the final touches on our Christmas lights and decorations done on our Pueblo Express Christmas Train. We started the day by clearing a bit of snow that was left behind last Wednesday, and then moved into the cabooses to finish installing the lights and various decorations. Then it was time to check out the generator operation, and test the lights once again since we added a few hundred more.

After lunch, a couple of the guys went out to our grade crossings and cleared debris from the flangeways. We also cleaned up the decoration containers and put the generator back in the shop for safe keeping. We are as ready as we can be for the Christmas events starting next weekend. We hope to see you there!

I have included a few pictures from today’s work session. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

On Saturday, November 29, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Chris, Thomas, Jerod, Polly, Dannis and Paul braved some very chilly conditions to start decorating the trainset for our upcoming Christmas events in December. Everyone jumped in to untangle the light strings, test for burned out bulbs, and climb ladders or up on the equipment to get the decorations installed. Polly did her magic working on decorating the caboose interiors, while Dannis and Paul stocked in some firewood for the stoves. Bruce continued work on the interior cabinet doors in the C&W caboose. Chris, Thomas, Dwight and Colin figured out all the electrical connections to power those lights. This year we set the lights up for a new look on the locomotive. It is good to get the decorating work done, but it was even better to call it a day and get inside to warm up!!

I have included a few pictures of the work that was done today – but you will have to make it out to our Christmas events on December 12 & 13th, 19th & 20th as well as the traditional Christmas Eve rides on the 24th – if you want to see those lights in action! If you are not able to see the photos, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

Don’t miss the Pueblo Parade of Lights on November 29, starting at 5:30 PM! The Pueblo Railway Museum is helping Santa ride in the parade on the Pueblo Downtown Express! The Pueblo Downtown Association and the Pueblo Railway Museum are working together to once again bring this Christmas Train to the good citizens of Pueblo.

The Pueblo Railway Museum’s tour guide Ron Roach will be driving the train, which was originally built in 1942 as an airport tug and luggage cars. Ron and Museum volunteer John McDowell brought this train back to life following its acquisition by the Pueblo Downtown Association in 2023. The Downtown Association has made an agreement with the Pueblo Railway Foundation that the Pueblo Railway Museum would store and operate the train and keep it running. The train has sets of cars with many different themes. The train has made many appearances during our Museum’s train ride events this past year as a “static” display, but the Parade of Lights is one of your only chances to see the train in action!

For information on parking and the parade route, click here.

Check out these photos from the parade website’s archive, of our train in last year’s parade! If you are not able to see the photos, click here to go to our Blog Page.

And be sure to come visit our Pueblo Express Christmas trains! The schedule is on our Events Page.

On Saturday, November 22, volunteers Ron, John, Michael, Diana, Demetris, Teia, Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Chris, Reid, Jerod, Dannis, Nick and Paul worked hard to provide our guests with an enjoyable train ride on a beautiful Colorado fall day. After getting equipment ready to roll and tickets ready to sell, we were greeted with many enthusiastic folks who really wanted to ride our train! In all, about 90 friendly folks came for a train ride, making it a good turnout, especially since this November event has not been traditionally on our train ride calendar in years past.

The four hours of the event just flew by and before we knew it, it was time to park the train and tie up. Thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible to provide the train rides.

Our Pueblo Express Christmas train rides are coming up soon! Go to our Events Page for dates and times!

I have included a few pictures. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

Photos by Paul Brown and Chris Pollard

On Saturday, November 15, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Jerod, Dannis, Nick, and Paul got busy doing some cleaning in the cabooses to be ready for our event next weekend. The windows and floors got the most attention, with the floors even getting mopped! After the cleaning was finished, we headed out to the switches on the shop lead tracks to raise and secure a piece of track through the switch points. The crew learned how much work it is to tamp a bit of rock under cross ties! We were able to lift one rail enough to line up better with the switch point, making it easier to throw the switch.

After a quick lunch break, Engine 103 was fired up and made ready for our equipment move. Our Haunted Railcar was returned to the shop tracks, where it will slumber away until it is time to get spooky again next year. While running the engine around, we checked out how our new spur track would handle the weight of a locomotive. It did just fine, though there is much work to do before it goes into regular service. We then tied up the engine and cleaned up to head home.

I have attached a few photos from today’s work. If you are not able to see the photos, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

On Saturday, November 8, volunteers Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Jerod, Polly, Dannis, Nick and Paul started today’s work checking our main running track for loose spikes and joint bolts. Work continued to remove a switch guard rail that is no longer needed, and cleaning up some junk material along the track. The crew then moved over to the shop lead tracks to check spikes and joint bolts before taking a lunch break.

After lunch, the crew did some more work on one of the switches on the lead tracks. A connecting rod on the switch points needed to be straightened and reinstalled, and then some adjustments were made to enable the points to be thrown. There will be some more work done here as we build out a couple of additional spurs. The day concluded with putting the tools away in their proper location and cleaning up.

I have included a few pictures of today’s work. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

Photos by Paul Brown and Bruce Davis

On Saturday, November 1, volunteers Dwight, Bruce, Dannis, Jerod and Paul spent the day cleaning up our equipment. We started with our cabooses and cleaned out the Halloween decorations, some trash and candy left behind by our guests at the Halloween event. We then spent a couple of hours doing a thorough cleaning of the cabs of Engine 103 & Engine 104. The cabs were vacuumed and then wiped clean with hot water, while the windows were also cleaned. It is really nice to see the years of dust cleared away from most of the surfaces!

The crew then took a quick lunch break before heading over to the collection area and starting a project to clean the cab of our General Electric U30C known as D.O.T. 001. This locomotive has been at the Museum for many years and barely gets any attention. Some of our younger members have expressed an interest in cleaning this locomotive and working to make it more presentable. Some debris was removed from the cab, and then a thorough vacuuming was completed. Some of the crew did a quick cleanup of weeds that have blown into the area around the equipment on display. We finished up by inspecting some track on our shop leads for a future project.

I have included a few pictures of the cleaning action. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul

On Saturday, October 25, volunteers Ron, John, Jackie, Teia, Demitris, Michael, Ben, Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Kendall, Reid, Dannis, Henry, Nick, Polly and Paul all had a frighteningly fun experience hosting our guests who came out to ride the Cemetery Express. Following some early morning work by some volunteers at the Museum shop, we fired up the locomotive and rolled the train over to Union Depot where we found a large group of visitors ready to be scared! The crew stayed very busy during the entire 4 hour event selling tickets, and directing guests to the cabooses, locomotive and the Haunted Railcar, for what many folks were saying was a great time. We even captured a ghoul scaring a couple of our passengers on the locomotive right around sunset!

This Halloween event was our largest event yet this year, with well over 200 riders on our trains. And it was obvious as we never had a slow time during the event, with a constant stream of visitors boarding the train for every round trip. The locomotive cab rides were very well attended and it sure seemed like the cabooses were almost to capacity on each trip! Reports from people who dared walk thru the Haunted Railcar were that it was great, and they were scared nearly to death by the spirit occupying the car!

I have included a few pictures that I was able to capture. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul