Month: January 2019

Colorado Narrow Gauge

Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge Boxcar 8027

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Part I – The Beginning Welcome to my latest restoration project – finishing out a narrow gauge boxcar that I have had for almost 15 years and getting it ready to go back home to Colorado. By this summer, Colorado & Southern boxcar No. 8027 should be in Como, Colorado …

General Railroad, Kansas Railroads

Finally a use for some of the Atchison Street Railway rail

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Back in August 2017, I managed to acquire some rail from the car barn of the Atchison Street Railway (See “A bit of Atchison railroad history saved”). I ended that post with the observation “now that I have a trailer full of “history”, the question becomes what to do with …