Otto Mears, a Lincoln Party Republican, entrepreneur and the man who built the Rio Grande Southern ... The railroad also heightened the need for another smelter in Durango. Mears, who was no ...

GOLDEN, Colo. — After years of restoration, the famous Rio Grande Southern Locomotive No. 20 rolled into the Colorado Railroad Museum Tuesday. For the past 12 years, it's been undergoing ...

The Rio Grande Southern Railroad in ... The Colorado Railroad Museum owns Geese 2, 6 and 7. Karl Schaffer of Ridgway has built a replica of No. 1 and California resort Knott’s Berry Farm owns ...