Colorado & Silver River Railroad

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The Colorado & Silver River Railroad is a bridge route between the Union Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande Western. The major industries served are coal, oil, cattle and farming. The C&SR is in bad financial shape and is struggling to turn a profit. The time is May 1957.

Along the Eagle Route the C&SR serves Harriman in Wyoming, Craig, Evan, Majestic, Bond, Ute Army Reserve, Monarch, Axial, Yampa, Dawson, Cannon City and Salida in Colorado. The C&SR interchanges traffic between the Union Pacific at Speer and the Denver & Rio Grande at both Salida and Bond. The Union Pacific traffic originates at Salt Lake City, Utah and Kansas City, KS and the Denver & Rio Grande at Denver to Pueblo, Colorado. The main C&SR yard is at Monarch.

In truth...the Colorado & Silver River is an S Gauge model railroad. My name is Chip Romig of Dallas, TX and I am the C&SR's Owner/Operator. Bob Muse is currently serving the C&SR as Chief Engineer. The layout is constructed in a room that is approximately 28' by 60'. The railroad incorporates both standard and narrow gauge operations. The bench work was done by myself and Lee Johnson. Bob Muse has contributed many of the structures including the Bullmoose Icehouse Franchise as well as many weathered cars. On the C&SR we use NCE DCC for operations and all locomotives have sound and lights. We use car cards to manage all traffic across the line and we are installing Panel Pro for the dispatcher.

Please take a look around and I hope you enjoy your ride on the C&SR. If you have any questions please feel free to send me an email.

Chip Romig, MMR 423

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