Otto Mears, a toll road and railroad entrepreneur from Colorado’s past, built the Rio Grande Southern Railroad in the 1890s, which connected Ridgway to Durango. In a Rico Sun newspaper on Jan. 1 ...

The Rio Grande Southern Railroad began operating in 1891, created by road builder Otto Mears primarily to haul ore from mines in Telluride, Ophir and Rico. But two years later, the Silver Panic of ...

Books & the Arts / Richard Parker’s love letter to El Paso, The Crossing, argues that the Texas city can illustrate the best and the worst of the nation’s history. Kyle Paoletta For millennia, El Paso ...

Join the Colorado Railroad Museum on Saturday, August 9th and Sunday August 10th for a special end-of-summer “Steam-Up” event celebrating the state’s rich mining and railroading past! Ride behind Rio ...

The southbound Underground Railroad is an “important part of our transnational borderland history,” says researcher Roseann Bacha-Garza at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

According to the Colorado Cultural Resource Survey, Denver & Rio Grande built the Carbondale depot in October 1887. At that time, the population of Carbondale was around 200 people.