On Saturday, April 13, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Colin Mellin, Abel Erber and Paul Brown braved the great weather and accomplished a lot of little tasks. Bruce, Kendall and Abel worked on the D&RGW caboose windows and interior trim, to get things buttoned up on that project. They also worked on installing a crossing sign on our Wig Wag signal. Meanwhile, Chris and Dwight worked on some upgrades to our battery charger cables. After a quick lunch, the entire crew helped work on the Wig Wag signal operations, with some new wires being installed to t ..read more

On Saturday, April 6, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard and Paul Brown braved high winds strong enough to blow your hard hat clean off your head and down the street about a block!! Luckily, our planned work was mostly indoors, but we were not completely spared. Our first work involved cleaning the back area of our shop where we had a slight oil spill from storing used oil in skimpy plastic containers. In addition to cleaning the oil, we cleaned up a lot more junk, dirt and dust from the area, and stuffed the already 3/4 full 3 yd dumpster we hav ..read more

The Pueblo Railway Museum is excited to kick off our 2024 train ride season with our Easter Bunny Express train rides on Saturday, March 30. Train rides will be available from 11AM to 3PM behind the Pueblo Union Depot. Train ride tickets are $15 for a ride in the engine, and $10 for a ride in one of the cabooses. Children under 2 ride the train free! Cash or check only, please. Train ride tickets can only be purchased during the event. Purchase your tickets at our Gift Shop, a converted caboose behind the Depot, near the passenger boarding area. Trains depart every 20 minutes, including loadi ..read more

On Saturday, March 23, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Dannis Hudson and Paul Brown worked to get Engine 104 started and checked out for next weekend’s event. After setting up the jump batteries, and following Dwight’s work to charge those batteries several times earlier in the week, we had a successful start on the locomotive. While waiting for the engine to warm up, the group worked to remove batteries from Engine 103. We are in the process of replacing batteries on engine 104 and two of the batteries on Engine 103 are pretty new and will be used as part ..read more

On Saturday, March 16, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Kendall Crouch and Paul Brown started by setting up the battery charger again on our jump battery set to get them ready to use. We then went to work on our cabooses to make sure they are ready for our first event in two weeks. We made sure we had wood to burn for heat, and that things were cleaned up inside. The C&W caboose got some extra attention, as we prepare to rebuild cupola seating into this car, making it a little more passenger friendly. We checked on the battery charging and found that the ..read more

On Saturday, March 9, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Dannis Hudson, Polly Cotton and Paul Brown worked on several projects, the first being one of the most important jobs at the Museum, cleaning up blown in tumbleweeds. While it doesn’t seem important, it greatly improves the looks of the Museum grounds. While that work was being done, we were also charging the locomotive batteries in hope that we can start Engine 104 come the end of the month for the Easter event. When the weed cleanup was completed, we did some work on our Hi-Rail truck, and then took a l ..read more

On Saturday, February 24, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Dannis Hudson and Paul Brown got busy to finish work on a new driveway/crossing across our shop lead tracks. We had to cut some sections of rail to act as flange-ways, and place recycled crushed concrete for the drive surface. While part of the group was finishing up this work, Bruce and Kendall decided to clean up some weeds, which is a great help as this is a major issue on the Museum grounds, and all of the volunteers got in on the work before breaking for lunch. After lunch, the cr ..read more

On Saturday, February 3, we had a good size crew come out despite the terrible weather. Dwight Maxey, Polly Cotton, Dannis Hudson, Kendall Crouch, Chris Pollard, Reid Adams and Paul Brown all spent the day working on cleaning up and organizing a small area of the shop. Luckily, we were able to stay indoors as it rained and snowed all day. The work consisted of fixing a rolling tool box and reorganizing the tools in it, as well as cleaning up a work bench and shelves next to it so we can find small hardware when we need it. We concentrated items that we normally use on the shelves, and moved a ..read more

On Saturday, January 27, the volunteer crew consisting of Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Chris Pollard, Polly Cotton, Dannis Hudson and Paul Brown jumped on a couple of projects. First up, we spread gravel in between a couple of our shop tracks to make conditions a bit safer, and hopefully alleviate some mud issues we’ve been having. This work took a couple of hours in the morning before we took a break for lunch. After lunch, we deviated a bit from the plan, and instead worked on some improved track crossings on our shop tracks. We needed to cut some old rail to use for flangeways, and then ins ..read more

The Pueblo Railway Museum is pleased to announce our 2024 Event Schedule: Easter Bunny Express, Saturday, March 30, 11am-3pm Train Rides at the Depot, Saturday, May 18, 10am-2pm Father’s Day Train, Saturday, June 15, 10am-2pm America’s Birthday, Thursday, July 4, 10am-2pm Train Rides at the Depot, Saturday, August 17, 10am-2pm Back to School Train, Saturday, September 21, 11am-3pm Cemetery Express, Saturday, October 26, 4pm-8pm Pueblo Express Christmas Trains: Saturday, December 7, 4pm-8pm Friday and Saturday, December 13-14, 4pm-8pm Tuesday, December 24, 4pm-8pm Train ride tickets are ..read more