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Ridgway Railroad Museum

81432 Ridgway, CO, United States of America (USA) (Colorado)
Address 702 Sherman Street
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Railway
  • Model Railway

Opening times
 June 1 - September 30th: daily 9am - 5pm

Admission
Status from 02/2017
 Free entry, donations welcome.
Contact
eMail:ridgwayrailroadmuseum ouraynet.com   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.ridgwayrailroadmuseum.org
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Location / Directions
N38.151272° W107.749639°N38°9.07632' W107°44.97834'N38°9'4.5792" W107°44'58.7004"
The Town of Ridgway, coined Gateway to the San Juans, is a Home Rule Municipality in Ouray County, in the southwestern portion of the U.S. State of Colorado.

Major highways

US 550 Highway 550 begins 27 miles north of Ridgway, in Montrose. It runs to Bernalillo, New Mexico, near Albuquerque, New Mexico via Durango, Colorado.

Colorado State Highway 62 is a 23.4 miles long highway, connecting Ridgway to State Highway 145, near Placerville.

The Ridgway Railroad Museum, located at the junction of U.S. Highway 550 and Colorado State Highway 62 in Ridgway, Colorado,
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad which ran from Durango to Ridgway in the western part of the US state of Colorado.

Galloping Goose

A famed aspect of the RGS was its fleet of Galloping Geese. During the Great Depression it became increasingly expensive to operate trains over the mountain railroad. The RGS devised a rail car from an automobile or bus front end and a box car rear end.

All six original Geese and the reproduction No. 1 are operational. The last non-operational Goose, No. 4, was restored to operation in August 2011 by the volunteers of the Ridgway Railroad Museum and the Telluride fire department.

 

 

 

 
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