08/24/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  While I was in Colorado, I visited the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden once again.  Things had changed quite a bit from the last time I was there including having a fully operating Roundhouse.  Inside was Locomotive No 20 getting some work done.  It was originally built in 1899 and was owned by the Rio Grande Southern Rwy.  The museum acquired it in 2006.  After a restoration in Strasburg PA it was returned to service and can occasionally be seen pulling trains at the museum.    Unfortunately it was not running the day I was there but I was glad to see it.

5/7/23

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image goes way back in the archives to an early visit I made to the Colorado RR Museum.  This is Rio Grande Southern #20 built in 1899.  It originally operated on the Florence and Cripple Creek line.  After floods destroyed much of that line it was sold to the RGS in 1916.  It operated on that line until 1951 when it was sent to a hotel in Alamosa where it sat until the museum opened and it was donated to it in 2006.  The 20 had undergone a major 14 year restoration at the Strasburg RR in Pennsylvania and is now back in at the museum and operating which is wonderful that it was brought back to life.