This list of Colorado railroads identifies the variety of active, historic, and defunct

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s that operate in the

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State of Colorado. __TOC__

Common freight carriers

* BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Colorado Pacific Railroad (COPR) *

Cimarron Valley Railroad The Cimarron Valley Railroad was built c. 1912 and purchased from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad in February 1996. It runs over former C.V. and Manter Subdivisions of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad tracks in Oklahoma, Colorado ...

(CVR) *

Colorado and Wyoming Railway Founded in 1899, the Colorado and Wyoming Railway is a subsidiary of the Evraz North America. It hauls coal, ore and steel products on about five miles of track inside ERVAZ - Pueblo, CO Steel Mills facility (formerly Colorado Fuel and Iron's ...

(CW) * Denver Rock Island Railroad (DRIR) *

Great Western Railway of Colorado The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway. It is currently a subsidiary of OmniTRAX but was founded in 1902 to serve the Great Western ...

(GWR) * Hudson Terminal Railroad (HTR) *

Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad The Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is a shortline railroad operating in the Midwestern United States. It is primarily located in Kansas and extends into Colorado, but despite its name, not into Oklahoma. Overview The KO is a subsidiary of Watco, ...

(KO) * Keenesburg Direct Railroad (KDR) *

Kyle Railroad The Kyle Railroad is a regional railroad line that runs from North Central Kansas into Eastern Colorado. It is based in Phillipsburg, Kansas and runs on track, mostly the former Rock Island Railroad Chicago to Denver main line. The Kyle was o ...

(KYLE) *

Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway The Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway , formerly the Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado RailNet, is based in Grant, NE and operates about of track in Southwestern Nebraska, Northern Kansas and Northeastern Colorado. It carries mainly agricultural rel ...

(NKCR) * Rock and Rail LLC (RRRR) *

San Luis Central Railroad The San Luis Central Railroad is a railroad company based in the U.S. state of Colorado. It was founded in 1913 to haul sugar beets from grower to processor. The railroad was acquired in 1969 by the Pea Vine Corporation and today operates freig ...

(SLC) * San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad (SLRG) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP) * Utah Railway (UTAH)

Historic attraction carriers

Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad The Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad (CC&VNG RR) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates seasonal tourist trains between Cripple Creek and the city's outskirts to the south. The railroad uses a revitalized section of the o ...

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United States. The railroad is named for two geogr ...

* Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad *

Fort Collins Municipal Railway The Fort Collins Municipal Railway operated streetcars in Fort Collins, Colorado, from 1919 until 1951. Since 1984, a section of one of the former routes has been in operation as a seasonal heritage streetcar service, under the same name, runni ...

* Georgetown Loop *

Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is a cog railway that climbs one of the most iconic mountains in the United States, Pikes Peak in Colorado. The base station is in Manitou Springs, near ...

* Platte Valley Trolley ( Denver Tramway Heritage Society) *

Rio Grande Scenic Railroad The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad of Colorado was a heritage railway that operated from 2006 to 2019 in and around the San Luis Valley as a subsidiary of the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad. The heritage railroad ceased operating excursions followi ...

Royal Gorge Route Railroad The Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a heritage railroad based in Cañon City, Colorado. A 1950s-era train makes daily 2-hour excursion runs from the Santa Fe Depot through the Royal Gorge along a famous section of the former Denver and Rio Grande W ...

* Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad (The South Park)

Private freight carriers

* Deseret Western Railway * MillerCoors Brewery * Rawhide Shortline

Passenger carriers

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(AMTK) * RTD Rail *Colorado San Francisco and Northern LLC. *Rockies to the Red Rocks (Rocky Mountaineer)

Defunct railroads

;Electric * Arkansas Valley Railway, Light and Power Company * Boulder Electric Light and Power Company * Canon City and Cripple Creek Railroad *

Colfax Electric Railway Colfax may refer to: People * Ellen Maria Colfax (1836–1911), second wife of Schuyler Colfax * Evelyn Clark Colfax (1823–1863), first wife of Schuyler Colfax * Schuyler Colfax (1823–1885), politician and 17th vice president of the United ...

* Colorado Railway, Light and Power Company *

Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway The Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway was a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Colorado around the turn of the 20th century. History On April 13, 1897, Lucian D. Ross, Thomas Burk, James L. Lindsay, W.T. Doubt and Kurn ...

(CCD) * Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway * Colorado Springs Rapid Transit Company * Colorado Springs and Suburban Railway * Cripple Creek District Railway * Denver City Cable Railway * Denver City Traction Company * Denver City Tramway Company * Denver Consolidated Tramway Company * Denver Electric and Cable Railway * Denver, Globeville and Golden Rapid Transit Company * Denver and Inter-Mountain Railroad (D&IM, DIM) * Denver and Inter-Mountain Railway * Denver and Interurban Railroad * Denver, Lakewood and Golden Railroad * Denver and Northwestern Railway * Denver and South Platte Railway * Denver Tramway Company * Denver Tramway Extension Company * Denver Tramway Terminals Company * Durango Railway and Realty Company *

Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad The Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC) was a narrow-gauge railroad running northward from junctions with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at the mill towns of Florence and later moved to Cañon City, Colorado, on the banks of the Arkansas ...

* Grand Junction Electric Railway * Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway *

Grand River Valley Railway Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and co ...

* Greeley and Denver Railroad * Manitou Incline Railway * Metropolitan Railway *

Midland Terminal Railway The Midland Terminal Railway was a short line terminal railroad running from the Colorado Midland Railway near Divide to Cripple Creek, Colorado. The railroad made its last run in February 1949. Background From 1887 to 1918, Colorado Midland Ra ...

* Pueblo and Suburban Traction and Lighting Company * Southern Colorado Power and Railway Company * South Denver Cable Railway * Trinidad Electric Transmission, Railway and Gas Company * West End Street Railroad

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