Rail Transportation

CDOT Reconsidering Trains Along I-70?

Bob Briggs Is Off the Train

Things to Do in Denver When You're Not Dead

Passenger rail study for I-70 and I-25 corridors kicks off

VIP rail cars roll into Union Station for DNC

Tunnel of Love

Lower Downtown Holiday Experience

Best View of Downtown

Speer Blvd. at I-25

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

Union Station's past will have a major impact on its future.

All Aboard!

Old pufferbellies stay on track at the Narrow Gauge Railfest.

Making Tracks

Getting trains up I-70 was once just a pipe dream. Today there are three technologies to choose from.

Rail Roaded

Finding a solution to I-70 traffic has been one long, strange trip. But the end could be in sight.

Re-Cog-Nition

The highest train in America opens for the season.

The Libertines

The Libertines (Rough Trade)

Information Super-Railway

Not everyone is aboard Colorado's high-tech locomotive.

The Whistle Stops Here

Creede will do anything to keep Don Shank's railroad from chugging to town.

Digging In

Gravel mining wasn't allowed near their homes in the 1980s. These Jeffco homeowners want to know what's different now.

Wrong Side of the Tracks

So far this year, two people have been killed on Colorado railways. But there are six victims.

Letters

So far this year, two people have been killed on Colorado railways. But there are six victims.

Plans, Trains and Automobiles

Squeezed by big-bucks developments, the eccentric Forney Museum is ready to hit the highway.

Off Limits

Squeezed by big-bucks developments, the eccentric Forney Museum is ready to hit the highway.

Whistle Stopped

A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

A BREWING MYSTERY

A DENVER COFFEEHOUSE HAS A STRANGE INTERNET ENCOUNTER WITH THE AMTRAK TRAIN DISASTER.

OFF LIMITS

A DENVER COFFEEHOUSE HAS A STRANGE INTERNET ENCOUNTER WITH THE AMTRAK TRAIN DISASTER.

OFF LIMITS

A DENVER COFFEEHOUSE HAS A STRANGE INTERNET ENCOUNTER WITH THE AMTRAK TRAIN DISASTER.

OFF TRACK

THE AIR TRAIN TO DIA GETS STUCK IN POLITICAL TRAFFIC.

MALL ABOARD!

STAID OLD UNION STATION FINDS ITSELF IN THE SWIRL OF LODO DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES.

Denver Blogs: Umm, this can't be good

Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Brandon Marshall's ex-girlfriend will be interviewed on ESPN this weekend. Why do we suspect she's not bragging about his gift-giving prowess? (Complete Colorado) The case against high-speed rail in Colorado. (Face the State) You know you're bad wh ... More >>

Denver Blogs: On that midnight train to bankruptcy

Colorado's high-speed rail will be just like this, only way whiter and way more expensive.​Our daily mug of local bloggage. Chug! Chug! Chug! The state's budget crisis sucks ... unless you're a prisoner! (5280) Does this high-speed rail system have a message car? Why is it so expensive? (Col ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: End of the line for the Ski Train

​My first view of Denver was from a train -- the Denver Zephyr, which a group of families had boarded in Chicago one afternoon in the mid-'60s. The kids had commandeered the dome car, where we slept on the floor under the seats, and as the sun rose, we got our first sight of the Rockies. My ... More >>

Union Station: What comes next in Denver's ambitious rail plans, part 2

​Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lin ... More >>

What lies ahead for the Union Station project

​Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lin ... More >>

Wikileaks freedom train pulls into Osage Street Station: Kenny Be's Sign Language

Wikitag wikimarks a wikiengine in west WikiDenver.​ The graffiti painted on the train engine in the photograph above is not remarkable for its quality, but for its incredible timeliness. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is Google trending across the world as this is being written, and yet some ... More >>

Denver International Airport trains take an early morning detour (& that's no Mountain Mirage)

​Denver International Airport rolls up the moving sidewalks early. As anyone regularly taking red-eye flights knows, most shops and bars on the concourse close before 10 p.m., and in the terminal, one fast-foot outlet and one sundries store stay open all night.

James Salazar takes the train to Shmuckville

www.thehobosoul.com​There is a long and storied tradition in this country of hobos jumping freight trains and riding across the country, looking for work. It's a tradition that began during the Civil War and gained prominence during the Great Depression. Hobos have to be brave and a little (or ... More >>

Journalist Sonia Nazario and Su Teatro shed light on the horrors and the uplifting moments of migrant life

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>