Celebrate America’s Birthday on July 4, with the Pueblo Railway Museum! Train rides will be available from 9AM to 1PM behind the Pueblo Union Depot. Train ride tickets are $15 for a ride in our “Patriot” engine, and $10 for a ride in one of our three cabooses. Children under 3 ride the train free! Cash or check only, please. Train ride tickets can only be purchased during the event. Purchase your tickets at our Gift Shop, a converted caboose behind the Depot, near where the trains depart. Each train ride is approximately 20 minutes, so there will be multiple opportunities during the event to ride the train.

This event features a special treat with our train rides! All paid riders will receive a free ice cream and bottled water to help you beat the heat!

In addition, Steel City Café will be catering this event, providing other tasty food choices for our visitors. The food cost is extra and is not included in the train ticket price.

There is no admission fee to attend the event itself. Charges are only for the train ride, and for purchases from Steel City Café.

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On Saturday, June 24, we had a small crew of volunteers consisting of Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch and Paul Brown, enjoy a nice warm and dry day getting some track work done. The crew replaced three cross ties that were in bad shape. These were discovered last December during one of our Christmas Train runs. A temporary repair was done then, but we needed to get some healthy ties in place there. The crew made quick work of changing out the ties and even were able to break for lunch.

I have included pictures of the work completed that also show how much fun we have while doing some hard work!

– Paul

On Saturday, June 17, the Museum broke out the Patriot and the caboose train to help celebrate Father’s Day. Volunteers Ron Roach, John McDowell, Dwight Maxey, Kendall Crouch, Colin Mellin, Justin Cesar, Bryan Tong and Paul Brown served as the crew to help our visitors enjoy a sunny morning, taking a ride on the train. We had a couple of large groups who made the trek from the Denver area to learn a little more about Colorado Railroad history. We had a total of 56 people ride the train, but we lost the last scheduled hour due to rain moving in. Steel City Cafe provided a food truck with a great selection of food, and there were a number of visitors lined up to sample that!

I have included a few pictures of the equipment and action today. Mark your calendars for our next event on July 4th!

– Paul

The Pueblo Railway Museum will host its next public train ride event on Saturday, June 17. Train rides will be available from 10AM to 2PM 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 only, please. Train ride tickets can only be purchased during the events. Purchase your tickets at our Gift Shop, a converted caboose behind the Depot, near where the trains depart. Each train ride is approximately 20 minutes, so there will be multiple opportunities during the event to ride the train.

Steel City Cafe will be catering this event, providing tasty snacks and meals for our visitors. The food cost is extra and is not included in the train ticket price.

There is no admission fee to attend the event itself. The charge is only for the train ride and purchases from the food truck.

This event coincides with the second annual Colorado Railroad Heritage Week, where the state of Colorado observes the anniversary of the arrival of the first trains to Denver in June of 1870.

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On Saturday, June 3, despite a little rain, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Petar Sredojevic, Bryan Tong, and Paul Brown, got the donated display cabinets moved into the shop. As you can see in the pictures, these are some really nice cabinets that will be put to good use in the future as we build up our Museum displays. We finished the move just in time to take lunch, and see if the weather would clear enough to let us take on another task.

Well, the rain stopped, so we jumped at the chance to get a long standing task completed, which was to hang a locomotive sculpture and a really nice sign on the front wall of our shop. The locomotive is a really heavy metal work that adds a nice touch to the front of the building, and the new sign puts our name out for all to see. A sense of accomplishment was felt by all at the end of the day!

I have included a few photos of the work done today. Watch for our next event coming on June 17th.

– Paul

Photos by Paul Brown and Jerry Dandurand

On Saturday, May 27, a good crew consisting of Dwight Maxey, Tyler Seeley, Bryan Tong, and Paul Brown, did some quick work moving some of our equipment around, and giving Engine 102, The Patriot, a washing for her upcoming summer duties. The crew used Engine 104 to do most of the work switching the equipment, including pulling Engine 102 out of the shop. After washing The Patriot, the crew took a lunch break, and then cranked up 102 to check out the systems and operation. We used 102 to move the caboose consist back into the yard, and then tie everything down. We finished the day with a little more clean up work in the shop.

I have included a few photos of the work being done today. As our event season gets into full swing, we hope to see more volunteers come out to help!

– Paul

Photos by Paul Brown and Tyler Seeley

On Saturday, May 20, the Pueblo Railway Museum hosted Train Rides at the Depot near the Pueblo Union Depot. Volunteers Ron Roach and Jackie Anzavor manned the gift shop selling tickets, while Kendall and Lynette Crouch and John McDowell directed visitors to the train and answered questions. Then the train crew, Colin Mellin, Reid Adams, Dwight Maxey and Paul Brown gave everyone a ride in the locomotive cab or on one of our cabooses. With nearly 100 visitors, our volunteers stayed busy during the four hour event. It was great to have the large number of visitors and people who are interested in railroad history!

I am including a few pictures of the riders today.

– Paul

On Saturday, May 6, Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch and Paul Brown got dirty! The group worked to clean out dirt and expose the ties on our main running track, to see what kind of damage we have and how many ties will need replaced in the near future. After cleaning out about a 25 foot section of the track, we found three ties that will need replaced. One of those ties had completely rotted away!

We took a nice lunch break, and then headed out to a couple of abandoned tracks close to San Pedro street, and were able to move a little bit of dirt before the Bobcat tractor succumbed to some kind of fuel system problem. We had been fighting this all day but it got worse as the day went on.

– Paul

On Saturday, April 29, a good crew consisting of Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch and Paul Brown started with cleaning out the blown-in tumbleweeds from the collection area. While not very bad, there was enough to fill up the work truck twice, and burn up the morning completing he task.

We broke for lunch around noon, and then started back to work checking the locomotive crankcases for any accumulated coolant. We do this twice per year to see if there is any major water leakage, and to spot other possible problems. After this work was completed, we headed out to install posts that we can use to chain open the gates in our perimeter fence. This keeps the gates from moving in any wind, while we are moving the train or other vehicles through.

We tied up for the day after putting away our tools and cleaning up. I have included a few pictures of today’s activities.

– Paul