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

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Common freight carriers

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

(BNSF) * Cimarron Valley Railroad (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) * Colorado Pacific Railroad (CXR) *

Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad (formerly the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad) is a class III railroad operating in south-central Colorado. It runs on of former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on three lines radiating from ...

(CXRG) * Colorado Pacific San Luis Railroad (CXSL) *

Denver Rock Island Railroad The Denver Rock Island Railroad , formerly known as the Denver Terminal Railroad, is a Class III terminal railroad in Denver and Commerce City, Colorado. The DRIR works around Denver's stock yards and many industries in that area. Histor ...

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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 West ...

(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 entirely located in Kansas and, despite its name, owns no trackage in Oklahoma. Overview The KO is a subsidiary of Watco, which took over ...

(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 of track, mostly the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's Chicago to Denve ...

(KYLE) * Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (NKCR) *

Rock and Rail LLC Rock and Rail is a short line railroad operating in southern Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It ...

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Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

(UP) *

Utah Railway The Utah Railway is a class III railroad operating in Utah and Colorado, and owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. History The Utah Railway Company was incorporated on January 24, 1912, with the name of Utah Coal Railway, shortened to Utah Railway ...

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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 ...

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, often abbreviated as the C&TSRR, is a Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge Heritage railway, heritage railroad that operates on of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United Sta ...

Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft gauge railways, 3 ft (914 mm) Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge heritage railway, heritage railroad that operates on of track between Durango, C ...

Fort Collins Municipal Railway The Fort Collins Municipal Railway operated streetcars in Fort Collins, Colorado, 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, un ...

* Georgetown Loop * Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway *

Platte Valley Trolley The Denver Trolley, formerly known as the Platte Valley Trolley, is a heritage streetcar line in Denver, Colorado, operated by the Denver Tramway Heritage Society. It began service on July 1, 1989. Route and operation The tram, trolley line ori ...

( 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 follo ...

Royal Gorge Route Railroad The Royal Gorge Route Railroad is a heritage railway, heritage railroad based in Cañon City, Colorado. A 1950s-era train makes daily 2-hour excursion runs from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Santa Fe train station, Depot through the R ...

* 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 * 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 Ku ...

(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 ( ) is a consolidated city and county, the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains east of th ...

* Denver Tramway Terminals Company * Durango Railway and Realty Company * Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad *

* Grand Junction Electric Railway * Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway * Grand River Valley Railway * Greeley and Denver Railroad * Manitou Incline Railway *

Metropolitan Railway The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex su ...

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 R ...

* 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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