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Colorado Narrow Gauge Calendar

A rail fan favorite, Colorado Narrow Gauge pictures the trains that once traversed the narrow gauge rails serving the Centennial state's communities and their mines from the 1800s into the mid-1900s.

Colorado Narrow Gauge Introduction

Colorado Narrow Gauge Calendar 2012 marks the 61st anniversary of the line's end in 1951. Built high in the rugged San Juan Mountains, Rio Grande Southern connected the silver mining towns of Rico and Telluride to Ridgway and Durango, Colorado through mountain terrain so difficult even a cog railway was dismissed as impossible to build. The 2012 Colorado Narrow Gauge calendar brings back the days of steam-powered narrow gauge railroading with color photographs taken between the 1940s and the 1960s.

Colorado Narrow Gauge Background

Colorado's Rio Grande Southern became the mountain goat of narrow gauge railroads in the 1890s. Colorado enjoys a storied history of narrow-gauge railroading that began with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which also came to own the Rio Grand Southern for much of its life. At the turn of the 19th century, the D&RG ran the largest narrow gauge railroad system in North America, connecting Denver Co and Salt Lake City UT, and also the mainline at the highest elevation in the United States.

Colorado Narrow Gauge Calendar Photographs

Each picture of calendar is accompanied by a description of the action and the equipment. This beautifully designed publication is attractive and useful, with calendar grids that have large blocks for every day of the week. The monthly calendar also includes grids for the previous and forthcoming months, to make planning more convenient. The Colorado Narrow Gauge calendar opens to a generous 14 by 22 inches, nearly 10 percent larger than most other brands and includes major holidays and phases of the moon.