List of Colorado Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Argentine Central Railway 1905 1912
Argentine and Gray's Peak Railway 1913 1918
Arkansas Valley Railroad 1900 1907
Aspen Short Line Railway 1888 1893
Aspen and Western Railway 1880 1892
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad 1863 1895
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1890 1996
Beaver, Penrose and Northern Railway 1909 1920
Book Cliff Railroad 1899 1925
Burlington and Colorado Railroad 1881 1908
Busk Tunnel Railway 1890 1900
Canon City and Cripple Creek Railroad 1897 1915
Canon City and San Juan Railway 1877 1878
Canon Coal Railway 1872 1878
Canon de Agua Railroad 1889 1890
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1855 1970
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway 1901 1907
Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway 1886 1891
Chicago, Rock Island and Colorado Railway 1888 1888
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway 1880 1948
Chicosa Canon Railway 1889 1890
Clear Creek and Guy Gulch Wagon Road Company 1871 1873
Colorado Central Railroad 1869 1890
Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad 1866 1869
Colorado Eastern Railroad 1894 1915
Colorado Eastern Railway 1888 1894
Colorado Midland Railroad 1893 1921
Colorado Midland Railway 1883 1917
Colorado Northern Railway 1883 1884
Colorado Railroad 1906 1930
Colorado Railway 1883 1888
Colorado Southwestern Railway 1888 1889
Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway 1899 1920
Colorado and Clear Creek Railroad 1865 1866
Colorado and New Mexico Railroad 1873 1875
Colorado and Northwestern Railroad 1904 1909
Colorado and Northwestern Railway 1897 1904
Colorado and Pacific Wagon, Telegraph and Railroad Company 1861 1871
Colorado and Salt Lake Railroad 1871 1872
Colorado and Southeastern Railroad 1909 1952
Colorado and Southeastern Railway 1903 1909
Colorado and Southern Railway 1898 1981
Colorado and Utah Railway 1886 1892
Colorado and Wyoming Railroad 1887 1908
Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway 1914 1924
Colorado, Wyoming and Great Northern Railroad 1894 1899
Colorado 1911 1932
Cripple Creek District Railway 1897 1899
Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs Railroad 1915 1921
Crystal River Railroad 1898 1941
Crystal River Railway 1892 1898
Crystal River and San Juan Railroad 1906 1941
Denver Circle Railroad 1880 1886
Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company 1867 1880
Denver Railroad and Land Company 1886 1887
Denver Railroad, Land and Coal Company 1887 1888
Denver Union Railway and Terminal Company 1889 1900
Denver Union Terminal Railway 1912 2001
Denver and Boulder Valley Railroad 1870 1898
Denver and Inter-Mountain Railroad 1909 1953
Denver and Inter-Mountain Railway 1904 1909
Denver and Middle Park Railroad 1883 1890
Denver and Montana Railroad 1899 1908
Denver and New Orleans Railroad 1881 1886
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad 1886 1921
Denver and Rio Grande Railway 1870 1886
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad 1920 1997
Denver and Salt Lake Railroad 1912 1927
Denver and Santa Fe Railway 1887 1900
Denver and Southwestern Railway 1899 1904
Denver, Boulder and Western Railroad 1909 1919
Denver, Clear Creek and Western Railway 1888 1899
Denver, Cripple Creek and Southwestern Railroad 1896 1899
Denver, Golden and Salt Lake Railroad 1881 1917
Denver, Lakewood and Golden Railroad 1890 1904
Denver, Laramie and Northern Railroad 1917 1917
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railroad 1910 1917
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railway 1906 1910
Denver, Leadville and Gunnison Railway 1889 1898
Denver, Longmont and Northwestern Railroad 1881 1883
Denver, Marshall and Boulder Railway 1885 1890
Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway 1902 1913
Denver, South Park and Hill Top Railway 1896 1897
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad 1873 1889
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway 1872 1873
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad 1887 1890
Denver, Texas and Gulf Railroad 1885 1890
Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad 1880 1908
Denver, Western and Pacific Railway 1880 1885
Elk Mountain Railway 1887 1898
Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad 1893 1915
Fort Collins Development Railway 1902 1908
Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railway 1881 1890
Gilpin Railroad 1909 1917
Gilpin Tramway Company 1886 1906
Golden Circle Railroad 1896 1915
Golden City and Gilpin County Wagon and Railroad Company 1870 1872
Golden City and South Platte Railway and Telegraph Company 1872 1880
Grand Valley Railway 1886 1887
Greeley Terminal Railway 1909 1917
Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railway 1881 1890
Holly and Swink Railway 1906 1907
Kansas Pacific Railway 1869 1880
Kansas 1908 1911
Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway 1901 1914
Larimer and Routt County Railway 1907 1914
Leadville Mineral Belt Railway 1898 1900
Leadville, Ten Mile and Breckenridge Railway 1880 1880
Little Book Cliff Railway 1889 1894
London, South Park and Leadville Railroad 1882 1885
Longmont and Erie Railroad 1878 1881
Midland Terminal Railway 1892 1949
Missouri Pacific Railroad 1917 1997
Missouri Pacific Railway 1876 1917
Mount Carbon, Gunnison and Lake City Railroad and Coal Transportation Company 1877 1881
Northwestern Terminal Railway 1904 1927
Pueblo Union Depot and Railroad Company 1887 Unknown
Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad 1875 1900
Pueblo and Salt Lake Railway 1873 1875
Pueblo and State Line Railroad 1887 1910
Rio Grande Gunnison Railway 1891 1908
Rio Grande Junction Railway 1889 1947
Rio Grande Railroad 1870 1911
Rio Grande Sangre de Cristo Railroad 1901 1908
Rio Grande Southern Railroad 1889 1951
Rio Grande Western Railway 1889 1908
Rio Grande and Pagosa Springs Railroad 1895 1914
Rio Grande, Pagosa and Northern Railroad 1899 1908
Rio Grande, Pueblo and Southern Railroad 1902 1908
Road Canon Railroad 1889 1890
San Luis Southern Railway 1909 1928
Silverton Northern Railroad 1895 1941
Silverton Railroad 1887 1904
Silverton Railway 1904 1922
Silverton, Gladstone and Northerly Railroad 1899 1915
South Park and Leadville Short Line Railroad 1885 1900
St. Joseph and Iowa Railroad 1857 1888
State Line and Denver Railway 1889 1889
Trinidad and Denver Railroad 1886 1888
Trinidad and Denver Terminal and Railway Company 1888 1899
Uintah Railway 1903 1939
Union Depot and Railroad Company 1879 1899
Union Depot and Railway Company 1899 1914
Union Pacific Railway 1880 1898
Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division 1863 1869
Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway 1890 1898
Union Pacific, Lincoln and Colorado Railway 1888 1898
Walsenburg and Western Railway 1907 1910