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The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado is a non-profit that has done a superb job in preserving the romance of when trains where king. Steam and diesel locomotives vie for attention along with numerous assorted passenger cars.
In 1899, the Burlington begain construction of an extension from Alliance, Nebraska to Hartville. Delays, however, were encountered. On May 13, 1899, officials of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, by then the operators of the mines at Sunrise, incorporated the Colorado and Wyoming Railroad.