The club is no longer accepting new members. We encourage interested parties to join us as CRRM members.
There had been a tentative plan to have a "steam picnic" in mid-May. We will move the date of our annual
Club picnic to some time this summer (probably in mid-August) and are working on those details.
This will allow more planning time for members who may travel farther. Details will be sent to current members.
We are not holding a meeting in May, and there will not be a Rail Report for that month.
Denver's largest annual rail enthusiast event - the Colorado Railroad Museum's Colorado Crossings steam-up weekend - returns for 2025
on this Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18 This year's theme, "Fanning the Future!" commemorates the pioneering railfan groups
such as ours which gave many Coloradans their first taste of up-close-and-personal railroading, and led to the
preservation of locomotives and cars that are highly revered today by the "next generation"of railroad enthusiasts.
We encourage you to visit the Museum this weekend. Since we are combining our Club with the Museum,
your membership gives you access to this and other upcoming CRRM events.
The Museum has even created a special T-shirt to honor the Rocky Club. A unique graphic version of our
Club drumhead is on the back. The actual drumhead is likely to be mounted on the Rico car for the event.
In 1964 Trains Magazine dedicated their 8 page Photo Section to the 25th anniversary of the club.
Click on Trains 25th Anniversary Article
to view this article. It is best viewed as a two sided display.
The Rocky Mountain
Railroad Historical Foundation was founded in 1990 by the Rocky
Mountain Railroad Club for the purpose of restoring
historic railroad equipment. For many years our main project was the restoration of Denver and Intermountain No. 25 (the only totally intact,
surviving car of Denver's once vast electric railway system). Car 25 was added to the National Register on January 12, 2012. The foundation page details how this piece of Colorado history was saved from the scrapper.
No. 25
was one of seven cars that provided passenger service between
downtown Denver and Golden over the Denver Tramway Company's
13 mile standard gauge line. A history of No. 25 can be found
by visiting the Foundation page.
This site is the result
of the enormous contributions of the members of the Rocky Mountain
Railroad Club. All railroad photography and writing contributed
for this project are used with much appreciation.
