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CATALOG OF GIFTS WINTER 2015 / 2016 Annual gift magazine of the BOOKS GAMES MOVIES MORE FANTASTIC HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR EVERY RAILFAN 2016 CALENDARS 2016 Colorado Narrow Gauge Calendar A railfan favorite, Colorado Narrow Gauge shows the trains that once traversed the narrow gauge rails, serving the Centennial State’s mountain communities and their mines from the 1800s into the mid-1900s. 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#8267) 2016 Classic Trains Calendar 13” x 21” 2016 BNSF And Its Heritage Calendar 2016 Great Trains Calendar hung, B&W photos. $14.99 (#8382) 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#8346) 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#8268) 2016 McMillan Rio Grande Color Calendar 13.9” x 19.4” hung. $14.95 (#8362) 2016 Narrow Gauge Memories Calendar 2016 Howard Fogg’s Trains Calendar 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#8361) 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#8269) 2016 Union Pacific Then & Now Calendar 2016 Santa Fe Railway Calendar 2016 McMillan Union Pacific Color Calendar 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#8347) 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#8270) 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#8363) 02 Colorado Railroad Museum Catalog Winter 2015/2016 CATALOG INDEX Message from the Director PAGE Greetings, 2016 Calendars 02 Colorado Railroad Museum Publications 04-08 ICC Maps & Goose Drawings 08-09 The Colorado Railroad Museum is delighted to publish our 2015-2016 Catalog Colorado Railroad Books 10-16 of Gifts. We have gathered some wonderful items that will appeal to you and Other Colorado Subjects 16-17 anyone on your gift giving list. We invite you to browse our latest catalog Other Railroad Books 17-23 at your leisure and discover all the new items we have added to our Depot Children’s Books 23-25 General Store – as well as some of your old favorites. Audio CDs 25-26 DVDs 26-31 Blu-rays 31 In case you haven’t had a chance to visit the Museum in a while, there have Children’s DVDs 33-32 been many changes over the past year alone! We built a new pavilion picnic Computer Software 32 and event area, we are expanding the Roundhouse Restoration Facility and Games & Puzzles 33-34 we have made improvements to our event infrastructure by adding new Toys 35-37 Clothing 37-40 pavement and overhead lighting along our passenger loading area and a new Glassware 41 performance area. ORDER FORM 42 Holiday Cards & Ornaments 43 Your purchases and donations help the Colorado Railroad Museum, a non- Otto Kuhler Prints 44 profit 501(c)3 organization, complete our mission: to preserve and convey the CATALOG OF GIFTS is an annual publication of the rich history of railroading in the Rocky Mountain region through acquisition, Colorado Railroad Museum for the benefit of its members, research, exhibition, and education. volunteers and gracious financial supporters. EDITORIAL & PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTIONS Donald Tallman Multimedia Coordinator Matthew Isaacks Executive Director Gust Services Manager & Buyer Andrea Bestor Gust Services Assistant Manager Beth Glandt Guest Services Specialist Andrew Ridder Guest Services Specialist Danielle Bhear Guest Services Specialist Lori Parker Master Mechanic & Grants Manager Mike Spera Cahoots Communications Inc. P. O. Box 10, Golden, CO 80402-0010 17155 W. 44th Avenue, Golden, CO 80403 Phone: 303-279-4591 or 800-365-6263 Fax: 303-279-4229 Email: [email protected] - SUPPORT US - Website: www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org The Colorado Railroad Museum is owned and operated In-Kind Donations to the Museum Library by the Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, a 501(c) We earnestly solicit donations of books, printed matter, MISSION STATEMENT (3) non-profit corporation. We rely on donations to keep artifacts or railroad memorabilia for use in the library or The mission of the Colorado Railroad Museum is to our exhibits maintained, preserved and available to our annual auction. preserve and convey the rich history of railroading in railfans. the Rocky Mountain region through acquisition, research, Volunteer exhibition, and education. By contributing, you are helping to preserve a part of Hundreds of volunteers are needed for all the work our rich rail heritage. at the Colorado Railroad Museum from train opera- CATALOG OF GIFTS COVER PHOTO: tion, restoration, track work and the docent (tour host) Multimedia Coordinator M. C. Isaacks Donate online at www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org programs. Contact us for the special opportunities available for you to partner with the Colorado Railroad Museum today. BOOKS COLORADO RAIL ANNUALS articles comprise this Annual. Rocketing No. 21 - Robert W. Richardson’s Narrow The Colorado Rail Annual to the Rockies by Michael Doty and Mel Gauge News From 1949 until 1958 McFarland is a history of the Rock Island Robert “Bob” Richardson was the editor and A Journal of Rail History in the Railroad in Colorado. Tennessee Pass by “abandoned lines reporter” of the Narrow Rocky Mountain West from the Robert LeMassena examines over 100 Gauge News. Seventy-three mimeographed years of Rio Grande on Tennessee Pass on and six printed issues were mailed to those Colorado Railroad Museum. the “Royal Gorge Route.” Last of the Birneys who sent self-addressed, stamped “No. combines the work of Ernest Peyton and 10” envelopes to the “World’s Largest Al Kilminster to chronicle the story of the Narrow Gauge Museum and Motel” at South Fort Collins trolleys. Over 300 photos, 14 in Alamosa, Colorado. Circulation was limited, color, plus maps and timetables. 280 pages. and today copies are almost impossible to Hardcover. Less than 125 copies left. find. We have reprinted these as a book with $16.95 (#2769) over 170 photographs made from Bob’s original negatives, many of which have never No. 18 - Railroading in the Rockies a been published before, now preserved in the Half Century Ago Eastward Ho by Ted Western History Collection of the Denver Wurm, Westward Ho by John Maxwell & Public Library. This fascinating account of On Line by Ed Mahoney. Here are the first the final years of the San Juan and Galloping person accounts of three noted western rail Geese, snow fighting, abandonment hearings history enthusiasts who were there fifty and and last runs. The struggle among railroad We have been publishing our Colorado Rail more years ago -- observing and recording officials, employees, railfans and then- Annual at intervals since 1963. Our objective when steam and varnish and high cars ruled indifferent public over the survival of the slim has been to fill the role of an active journal supreme, before many rail lines succumbed gauge is recounted from Bob Richardson’s of rail history in the Rocky Mountain West, to progress. We invite you to follow them unique perspective. Bob has written an covering interesting aspects of railroading through the pages of this Colorado Rail introduction describing how he chronicled the in the region with a balance of carefully Annual and relive the grand era of railroading declining years of Colorado’s narrow gauge researched text and the best available through their eyes. 340 photos, maps. 220 empire over four decades ago. The Narrow photography. Growing acceptance by rail pages. Hardcover. Less than 60 copies left. Gauge News played an unrecognized role history enthusiasts has the COLORADO $29.95 (#2771) in building public support for the surviving RAIL ANNUAL series as one of the nation’s narrow gauge we treasure today. Over leading sources of western railroad history. No. 19 - Coal, Cinders & Parlor Cars: A 190 illustrations, six paintings by Ted Rose Popularity of the series has enabled us to Century of Colorado Passenger Trains reproduced in color. 303 pages. Hardcover. expand our offerings and, at the same time, Colorado Midland Passenger Service 1887- Less than 30 copies left. $34.95 (#2761) keep prices affordable - thanks both to the 1918 by William F. Bale. This detailed study economics of our large press runs and the provides new insights into the Midland’s No. 22 - Journeys Through Western fact that much of the effort producing our operations and is lavishly illustrated. Rail History Featuring a fascinating Annuals is volunteer. Streetcars and Suburbs by Thomas J. Noel collection of articles on a variety of events traces the early history of Denver’s urban rail from over a century of railroading in the No. 15 - The Idaho Montana Issue system - horse, cable, steam and electric. West. When In Doubt, Take a Statement: Three interrelated topics are presented A Silverton Trilogy: Fifty Years of Passenger The Reminiscences of a Union Pacific on a part of the west often overlooked. Service by R. W. Richardson, John S. Claim Agent by Jack A. Pfeifer. The Lost Utah Northern by Mallory Hope Ferrell is a Walker Jr. and R. C. Farewell covers the Locomotive of Kiowa Creek by Loyd J. history of the Ogden-Butte line of the Union famed Silverton Train’s emergence since Glasier. Short Line Through A Lonely Land: Pacific.UP Montana by Museum founder 1941 in three chapters - the transition from The New Mexico Central by Vernon J. Glover. Cornelius W. Hauck is a profusely illustrated mixed train to tourist trains, the Rio Grande’s The 1921 Pueblo Flood and the Moffat story of the operations on the Butte line development programs of the mid-1960s Tunnel: Economics and Politics of a Colorado after standard gauging. Finally, Gilmore & and coverage of the independent Durango Disaster by Stephen S. Hart. Denver’s Light Pittsburgh by Rex Myers covers a virtually & Silverton. Zimbabwe Steam Safari by Rail Launched text by Robert W. Rynerson, unknown standard gauge line in Idaho’s Ronald C. Hill offers a contrasting view of photographs by Bryan Bechtold. Looking Salmon River country. More than 200 narrow gauge steam railroading in southern Back: The Streetcar and Railroad Heritage of photos plus rosters and maps.