Train Travel

Union Station: Model-train club packs up, new-home option isn't free

On Saturday, while thousands of freeloaders hopped on board the new West Line to ride light rail from downtown to Golden and back, members of the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad club gathered in the dark basement of the shuttered Union Station and started dismantling the layout they'd initial ... More >>

The Rail Thing

Union Station developers give beloved model train layout the boot

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised there would always be a spot for the model trains -- and the clubs that ran them. And when those rail b ... More >>

Kids First

Photos: Union Station is transforming from sleepy train stop to multi-modal hub

It's been thirty years since Denver's 16th Street Mall opened for business, and this week's cover story "It's a Mall World After All!," takes a look at the attraction's past, present and future. That future includes new life for Denver Union Station, the 131-year-old train station at the west end of ... More >>

Reader: Union Station light-rail plaza isn't the only one that could spur development

Last week, Chris Utterback took readers on a photo tour of Union Station -- one that focused on the facility's future and the just-opened Light Rail Plaza. The subject of light rail inspired one reader to argue that this particular station isn't the only one on the line that offers opportunities.

Photos: Union Station tour digs dirt on transit hub, light rail

On Saturday, city planner, urban explorer and overseer of the DenverInfill blog Ken Schroeppel took a handful of Denverites on a tour of Union Station to discuss the just-opened Light Rail Plaza and the station's future. Here's an inside look at the project.

Laura Triem, woman hit by light rail, has awoken from her coma

Mary Chadwick identifies days almost exclusively by number now. As in, Day 13 was when her daughter, Laura Triem, who was hit by a light rail downtown on November 4, woke up from her coma. Those thirteen days felt like months to Chadwick, and she thinks she's aged fifty years, but at least her daugh ... More >>

Riding the Light Rail with no pants: Not just for the mentally unstable anymore

​If you find yourself aboard the Light Rail this weekend minus your pants, you are involved in one of three possible contingencies: Either a). you have escaped from the ward again, b). your friends are jerks, or c). you are participating in the latest project from flashmob impresario Rick Gold ... More >>

Soul Train

Sisterly slashing closes light rail

"I don't care if this makes family dinners awkward."​Some siblings show their feelings for each other by hugging, kissing and sweet words. Others use knives. An incident involving the latter took place around 10 p.m. last night at the 30th and Downing light rail station. "Two sisters got into ... More >>

DIA Dreams: Aviation director Kim Day plans to take DIA where no airport has gone before

What lies ahead for the Union Station project

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 >>

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 >>

Beers and Brewhahas: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups

​If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here's an example (see our previous pairings here and here): Dispute: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups Beer: Wynkoop Brewing Company's Light Rail Ale C'mon, ... More >>

The buffalo roam at the Terry Bison Ranch

The Terry Bison Ranch is still the best place to stay when you're visiting Cheyenne Frontier Days, which began July 18 and continues through July 25. Straddling the Wyoming/Colorado border, the place is a massive working ranch -- with bison, camels, llamas, goats and all of your other standard farm ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: All aboard for a wonky week

I'm looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the "Travel by Train" sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years. And some day there will be a lot more of them, if current plans for the revelopment of Union Station play out -- ... More >>

ColoRail to announce Union Station lawsuit

Colorado Rail Passenger Association (ColoRail) plans to file a federal lawsuit to halt implementation of the proposed redevelopment plan for Denver Union Station. The all-volunteer advocacy organization says the proposed plan is "short on transportation services that were committed to in the earli ... More >>

ColoRail -- and its lawyers -- aim to derail current Union Station project

Union Station Lately, the Union Station redevelopment plan has been cruising along nicely, with one political roadblock after another falling to the wayside. Last month, the citizen-based Open Space Initiative Group all but capitulated in its efforts to have the project's developers ditch plans to ... More >>

Union Station may become Denver's gateway again -- if it stays on track

Cool People Do Like Denver. Take That, Seattle!

Ride the Line

Art-on-the-Line offers a behind-the-scenes look at light rail public art.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Not Dead

Bob Briggs Is Off the Train

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.

Christmas Choo-Choo

Light Up

Making tracks to suburbia.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Will trolleys return to Colfax?

Go With the Flow

Off the Rails

Even with the radiant Gong Li, Zhou Yu's Train's a wreck.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 19, 2001

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

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

Letters

One-Track Minds

Rail-happy RTD candidates want to solve Denver's traffic nightmare. Are they just spinning their wheels?

Lots of Bad Luck

Can't find your car? You may be an RTD commuter.

Get Stuffed

Spinning Their Wheels

A guide to surviving the light-rail info war

Letters

Beating the Train

Light-rail opponents plot ways to jump the tracks--with an RTD boardmember leading the charge.

It's the Rail Thing

For some Lakewood homeowners, RTD's proposed light-rail line looms too close for comfort.

Off Limits

LETTERS

LETTERS

RUNAWAY TRAIN

RUNAWAY TRAINCONGRESS SPURNED IT, STATE LAWMAKERS SCORN IT, BUT CAN ANYBODY PUT THE BRAKES ON LIGHT RAIL?

STOP THAT TRAIN!

A GROUP OF LIGHT-RAIL SKEPTICS GETS READY TO COME ON BOARD AT RTD.

THE LITTLE RAILROAD THAT SAID IT COULD

THE NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW FINDS A BURR UNDER ITS SADDLE: A TINY RAIL CARRIER.

MALL ABOARD!

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