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CATALOG OF GIFTS WINTER 2014 / 2015 Annual gift magazine of the BOOKS GAMES MOVIES MORE FANTASTIC HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR EVERY RAILFAN CATALOG INDEX Message from the Director PAGE 2015 Calendars 01 Colorado Railroad Museum Publications 02-06 Greetings, ICC Maps & Goose Drawings 06-07 Colorado Railroad Books 08-14 The Colorado Railroad Museum is pleased to provide you with the Winter Other Colorado Subjects 14-16 2014 / 2015 Catalog of Gifts. Again, we have worked hard to assemble Other Railroad Books 16-22 fantastic train and rail-related items for you and the train lovers in your life. Children’s Books 23-24 Audio CDs 24 DVDs 24-30 Your purchases and donations are appreciated and allow us to continue our Blu-rays 30 mission and to carry on with restoration projects, expand and add to our Children’s DVDs 30-31 exhibits, maintain our 15-acre grounds and continue to bring Colorado rail Computer Software 31 history to life for all those who visit the Museum. Games & Puzzles 32-33 Toys 34-36 Clothing 36-39 We hope you enjoy this year’s Catalog and appreciate you considering the Glassware 39 Museum as your shopping destination for special items for yourself, family ORDER FORM 40 or friends. You can also find hundreds of additional items, including clothing, Holiday Cards & Ornaments 41 Thomas the Tank Engine merchandise, toys and games at our online store at Prints & posters 42 www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org. Enjoy! CATALOG OF GIFTS is an annual publication of the Colorado Railroad Museum for the benefit of its members, volunteers and gracious financial supporters. Donald Tallman EDITORIAL & PHOTOGRAPHY Executive Director CONTRIBUTIONS Multimedia Coordinator Matthew Isaacks Museum Store Coordinator & Buyer Andrea Bestor 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] Website: www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Colorado Railroad Museum is to - SUPPORT US - preserve and convey the rich history of railroading in the Rocky Mountain region through acquisition, research, The Colorado Railroad Museum is owned and operated In-Kind Donations to the Museum Library exhibition, and education. by the Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, a 501(c) We earnestly solicit donations of books, printed matter, (3) non-profit corporation. We rely on donations to keep artifacts or railroad memorabilia for use in the library or CATALOG OF GIFTS COVER PHOTO: our exhibits maintained, preserved and available to our annual auction. Actual items available for purchase! railfans. Volunteer 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- tion, restoration, track work and the docent (tour host) Donate online at www.ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org programs. Contact us for the special opportunities available for you to partner with the Colorado Railroad Museum today. 2015 CALENDARS 2015 Narrow Gauge Memories Calendar 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#7914) 2015 Colorado Railroad Museum Calendar Featuring a mix modern images of equipment in the Colorado Railroad Museum’s collection and archival images from the R. W. Richardson Archives. Our 13 month 2015 Calendar includes images from Museum staff members, neighbors and volunteers including Matthew 2015 Union Pacific Then & Now Calendar Isaacks, George Lawrence, Travis Gorhum and Chuck McQuade. $9.95 (#7965) 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#7913) 2015 Rio Grande Color Calendar 2015 Colorado Narrow Gauge Calendar 2015 Great Trains Calendar 13.9” x 19.4” hung. $14.95 (#7918) 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#7857) 3.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#7858) 2015 Howard Fogg’s Trains Calendar 2015 Trackside with Trains Calendar 2015 Union Pacific Color Calendar 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#7859) 13” x 21” hung. $12.95 (#7954) 3.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#7917) 2015 Santa Fe Railway Calendar 2015 BNSF And Its Heritage Calendar 2015 Classic Trains Calendar 13.7” x 21.5” hung. $14.95 (#7860) 11” x 18” hung. $14.95 (#7915) 13” x 21” hung. $14.99 (#7966) Winter 2014/2015 Colorado Railroad Museum Catalog 01 BOOKS COLORADO RAIL ANNUALS Cripple Creek District Railway The Cripple Palmer’s Other Narrow Gauge by Robert A. The Colorado Rail Annual Creek gold rush which begin in 1891 LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge. created a need for railroad transportation The Denver Post’s Frontier Days Special by A Journal of Rail History in the to serve the boomtown that eventually Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest & The Rocky Mountain West from the grew to a population of over 50,000. Here Greatest Train by Alexis McKinney. Personal is the story of the Colorado Springs & reminiscences of the Frontier Days Train. Colorado Railroad Museum. Cripple Creek District Railway or Short Line Union Pacific’s Articulated Steam Power told in text enhanced by over 175 photos by R. H. Kindig and R. C. Farewell. Over including 10 in color. Detailed rosters include 300 photographs. 240 pages Hardcover. interurban electric cars. Specially drawn $17.95 (#2751) maps, timetables, bibliography and index. 220 pages. Hardcover. $24.95 (#2774) No. 21 - Robert W. Richardson’s Narrow Gauge News From 1949 until 1958 No. 17 - Rock Island, Tennessee Pass Robert “Bob” Richardson was the editor and & Ft. Collins Trolleys Three complete “abandoned lines reporter” of the Narrow articles comprise this Annual. Rocketing Gauge News. Seventy-three mimeographed to the Rockies by Michael Doty and Mel and six printed issues were mailed to those McFarland is a history of the Rock Island who sent self-addressed, stamped “No. Railroad in Colorado. Tennessee Pass by 10” envelopes to the “World’s Largest Robert LeMassena examines over 100 Narrow Gauge Museum and Motel” at South We have been publishing our Colorado Rail years of Rio Grande on Tennessee Pass on Alamosa, Colorado. Circulation was limited, Annual at intervals since 1963. Our objective the “Royal Gorge Route.” Last of the Birneys and today copies are almost impossible to has been to fill the role of an active journal combines the work of Ernest Peyton and find. We have reprinted these as a book with of rail history in the Rocky Mountain West, Al Kilminster to chronicle the story of the over 170 photographs made from Bob’s covering interesting aspects of railroading Fort Collins trolleys. Over 300 photos, 14 in original negatives, many of which have never in the region with a balance of carefully color, plus maps and timetables. 280 pages. been published before, now preserved in the researched text and the best available Hardcover. $16.95 (#2769) Western History Collection of the Denver photography. Growing acceptance by rail Public Library. This fascinating account of history enthusiasts has the COLORADO No. 18 - Railroading in the Rockies a the final years of the San Juan and Galloping RAIL ANNUAL series as one of the nation’s Half Century Ago Eastward Ho by Ted Geese, snow fighting, abandonment hearings leading sources of western railroad history. Wurm, Westward Ho by John Maxwell & and last runs. The struggle among railroad Popularity of the series has enabled us to On Line by Ed Mahoney. Here are the first officials, employees, railfans and then- expand our offerings and, at the same time, person accounts of three noted western rail indifferent public over the survival of the slim keep prices affordable - thanks both to the history enthusiasts who were there fifty and gauge is recounted from Bob Richardson’s economics of our large press runs and the more years ago -- observing and recording unique perspective. Bob has written an fact that much of the effort producing our when steam and varnish and high cars ruled introduction describing how he chronicled the Annuals is volunteer. supreme, before many rail lines succumbed declining years of Colorado’s narrow gauge to progress. We invite you to follow them empire over four decades ago. The Narrow No. 10 - Narrow Gauge to Central City through the pages of this Colorado Rail Gauge News played an unrecognized role and Silver Plume: Route of the Famed Annual and relive the grand era of railroading in building public support for the surviving Georgetown Loop History of the first through their eyes. 340 photos, maps. 220 narrow gauge we treasure today. Over narrow gauge to push west into the Rockies. pages. Hardcover. $29.95 (#2771) 190 illustrations, six paintings by Ted Rose Begun in 1872 as the Colorado Central, reproduced in color. 303 pages. Hardcover. it became part of the Union Pacific and No. 19 - Coal, Cinders & Parlor Cars: A $34.95 (#2761) eventually the Colorado & Southern. Built to Century of Colorado Passenger Trains serve the mining communities of Gilpin and Colorado Midland Passenger Service 1887- No. 22 - Journeys Through Western Clear Creek counties, its famed Georgetown 1918 by William F. Bale. This detailed study Rail History Featuring a fascinating Loop became a popular tourist attraction. provides new insights into the Midland’s collection of articles on a variety of events This big book has over 300 photos and is operations and is lavishly illustrated. from over a century of railroading in the the classic history of the line. With current Streetcars and Suburbs by Thomas J. Noel West. When In Doubt, Take a Statement: operations of the Georgetown Loop. 220 traces the early history of Denver’s urban rail The Reminiscences of a Union Pacific pages. Hardcover. LIMITED AVAILABILITY! system - horse, cable, steam and electric. Claim Agent by Jack A. Pfeifer. The Lost $19.95 (#2762) A Silverton Trilogy: Fifty Years of Passenger Locomotive of Kiowa Creek by Loyd J.