This undated brochure gives the address of the Rio Grande’s office building as “Denver 2, Colorado.” That building is in zip code 80202. However, the 1962 timetable listed it as “Denver 17, Colorado,” suggesting that the Post Office changed the … Continue reading
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Long after other railroads had replaced steam with Diesel and wooden coaches with steel, the Rio Grande continued to operate the Silverton as a tourist train. The silver ink on the cover of this brochure, which is both an advertisement … Continue reading
The timetables have been rearranged slightly, but the schedules are virtually the same as in the 1961 edition. These smaller timetables no longer list a bus from Durango to Mesa Verde National Park. But they do list a twice-daily bus … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1959 timetable was 20 pages long, just like the one from 1950. By 1961, however, Rio Grande decided to condense its timetable into a brochure that folds out to the equivalent of just six pages. Click image to download … Continue reading
The red background cover on earlier timetables has been replaced by orange, also known as Grande Gold, to match the color of Rio Grande’s passenger locomotives and some of its passenger cars. This timetable cover also uses a new photo … Continue reading
Issued just three months after yesterday’s timetable, this one differs on the inside in just two places that I can find. First, the three-day-a-week train between Durango and Silverton has been reduced to Wednesday’s only, which was probably the winter … Continue reading
Since yesterday’s 1948 timetable, color photos have replaced black-and-white and the California Zephyr has replaced the Exposition Flyer on the cover. The cover photo of the Royal Gorge shows the train in the same spot as yesterday’s, but scrutiny reveals … Continue reading
Although Diesels grace the cover of this timetable in both the Royal Gorge and near the Moffat Tunnel, Rio Grande was still running a few steam-powered passenger trains. Rio Grande ran five passengers trains a day each way through the … Continue reading
In this 1946 menu, the wonders of four-color printing have replaced the lithographed covers of the Rio Grande’s pre-war menus. With yellow and green aspen and blue sky, the photo lives up to Colorado’s long-time tourist slogan, “Colorful Colorado” (though, … Continue reading
We saw this cover a few days ago on a 1938 dinner menu. It is curious that these covers all display the words “Breakfast” or “Dinner,” indicating that the two were printed separately. Many other railroads used a generic cover … Continue reading