Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Loveland’s Colorado Central depot was completed in ...

William A.H. Loveland, president of the Colorado Central Railroad, saw that route opened in 1869 — about a century ahead of the Eisenhower Tunnel that forever changed travel in the Rockies.

In 1865, he formed the Colorado & Clear Creek Railroad company, which later was renamed the Colorado Central. Loveland Reporter-Herald history columnist Bill Jessen, in a column from 2019 , takes ...

Loveland, like a lot of Northern Colorado towns and cities, can thank trains for its very existence. In the 1870s, after learning from his friend — and president of the Colorado Central Railroad ...

The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden was one of Visit Denver's Top 10 paid attractions in the metro area last year while also seeing record attendance and revenue.