Colorado/Railroads

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Introduction

This wiki documents Colorado's active freight, industrial and passenger rail as entered into OSM. (Disused and Abandoned rail tables seem "poor to fair," as they remain incomplete). These data began with OSM-US' 2008 TIGER import, in 2018 were "stubbed inwards" from Colorado's boundary and further developed with Overpass Turbo (OT) queries (numerous shared OT query links are below) as they were documented in this wiki. Some data were improved using USA's Federal Rail Authority GIS site. As an "early alpha," this wiki is incomplete and likely has minor errors. See United_States/Railroads for suggestions on how to better complete OSM's Colorado/Railroads data together with this wiki, including strategies for TIGER Review. Important tasks now are TIGER Review and completing correct route=railway relations as documented in United_States/Railroads. Passenger rail often follows, though these often can and do improve in parallel. State by state, OSM better completes USA Rail!

USA state-level rail wikis like this often divide rail organization into "infrastructure" (correctly-tagged rail track elements in route=railway relations) and "passenger rail" — either route=train relations if passenger=national, passenger=regional or passenger=suburban, or if not one of these, route=light_rail, route=tram or route=monorail relations, perhaps with a passenger=urban or passenger=local tag. While mapping and wiki-documenting USA rail, it is often less confusing to (largely) finish "infrastructure first:" TIGER Reviewed track elements with correct name=* and usage=* tags collected as members into proper route=railway ("Subdivision") relations. Then, with infrastructure (largely) complete, combine proper rail elements into v1 passenger routes (if any) with stations and platforms, finally improving these to v2 with a type=route_master relation containing all route=train relations.

Colorado's major (Class I) rail operators are BNSF and Union Pacific (UP). Primarily freight/industrial long-distance mainline railroads, BNSF and UP in Colorado also support Amtrak passenger=national trains California Zephyr℠ (Chicago - Bay Area, California) and Southwest Chief® (Chicago - Los Angeles). Also in OSM (and this wiki) are Colorado passenger=suburban, passenger=urban and passenger=local rail routes; Denver RTD has passenger rail of the first two types. These shorter passenger rail (sometimes called "commuter" rail when tagged passenger=suburban) improve while OSM completes TIGER Review on railway infrastructure, documenting completion here as we do so. Finally, Colorado has more tourism/historic/heritage/museum/mining (and amusement park) rail than is documented here: these sort into their own sections/tables as their route=railway and route=train details become better, more fully known.

State of this wiki and map data: OSM declares this wiki in an alpha phase, as a sensible initial structure is established. (Often used to describe stages of software development, these phases are used here to describe the state of Colorado/Railroad data in OSM and completeness of this wiki in documenting those data). Yes, there is much red- and yellow-status TIGER Review to do on railway infrastructure. Some TIGER data have blurred and need "untangling." Disused and Abandoned rail lack being fully documented here. Passenger rail is almost complete (a few tourism routes to finish) as rudimentary public_transport:version=1, while Denver RTD rail now improves from v1 to partial and early v2 "seeds." More-local volunteers, step right up, please. Colorado OSM volunteers seem well equipped to complete TIGER Review, further develop passenger routes to v2 and keep railway/train routes and this wiki updated. Thank you!

Active Lines

Distinguish Mainline, Branch and Industrial Rail by assigning usage=* tags on infrastructure members of route=railway (Subdivision) relations. Short Line Rail (often Class III railroads) has its own section and mostly isn't usage=main (though it can be), Short Lines are usually usage=branch or usage=industrial.

BNSF Railway (BNSF)

A major Class I North American railway. Untangling Pikes Peak with Colorado Springs and Spanish Peaks with Walsenburg Subdivisions (between BNSF and UP as owners/operators) might be challenging, as the TIGER data got so blurred/confused that more authoritative sources are required. The FRA GIS site noted above is considered by rail professionals to be "authoritative" (and because the data are federal, are in the public domain, so OSM can use them), though it can be slow to load, even on a fast 'net connection: zoom in close for better performance.

Mainline

Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=main.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Akron Subdivision	1421740 1421740	Brush - Akron - Otis - Kansas Line and eastward	Mostly done, still needs about 15% review to complete	Supports Amtrak California Zephyr passenger=national route=trains.
Angora Subdivision	1421773 1421773	Sterling - Sidney, Nebraska - Dalton, Nebraska	Mostly done, still needs about 20% review to complete	Trackage rights south of Sterling allow BNSF to connect to its Brush and Akron Subdivisions.
Boise City Subdivision	1420815 1420815	La Junta - Las Animas - Springfield - Boise City, Oklahoma - Amarillo, Texas	Mostly done, still needs about 40% review to complete
Brush Subdivision	1421741 1421741	Union (Julesburg Subdivision) - Brush - Fort Morgan - Wiggins - Hudson - Lockbuie - Commerce City - Denver	Mostly done, still needs about 40% review to complete	Supports Amtrak California Zephyr passenger=national route=trains.
Front Range Subdivision	1421774 1421774	Denver - Wesminster - Broomfield - Louisville - Boulder - Longmont - Loveland - Fort Collins - Cheyenne, Wyoming and beyond	TIGER review nearly done	Needs minor review: should "Buck Main" elements should be included or excluded? A short usage=industrial service=spur (name=2nd Street Southwest Spur?) serves Loveland.
Glenwood Springs Subdivision	1419635 1419635	Bond - Dotsero - Glenwood Springs - New Castle - Rifle - Parachute - Palisade - Grand Junction	TIGER review nearly done	Several usage=industrial service=spurs serve Grand Junction
La Junta Subdivision	1431384 1431384	Boise City Subdivision (near Las Animas) - Lamar - Granada - Holly - Kansas Line and eastward	Almost completely un-reviewed with respect to TIGER tags
Pikes Peak Subdivision	1420811 1420811	Denver - Castle Rock - Palmer Lake - Gap - Colorado Springs - Gap - Fountain - Pueblo	More than halfway TIGER-reviewed, still needs a lot of work	Segments are confused in naming, sharing BNSF and UP. UP has trackage rights, unclear exactly where. Denote on railway by tagging with correct owner=* and operator=* tags. Around Colorado Springs, untangle with UP's Colorado Springs Subdivision. Pikes Peak is owner=BNSF (on the west of Pueblo) and Colorado Springs is owner=UP (in the center of and easterly in and north of Pueblo). A segment of both routes north of Colorado Springs is single-tracked.
Pueblo Subdivision	1420809 1420809	Pueblo - DoD Pueblo Chemical Depot - Boone - Fowler - Manzanada - Rocky Ford - Swink - La Junta	Appears to be fully TIGER-reviewed, but the relation itself needs a lot of work	Denote on railway where UP has trackage rights by tagging with correct owner=* and operator=* tags.
Raton Subdivision	1420813 1420813	La Junta - Trinidad - Starkville - Raton, New Mexico - Las Vegas, New Mexico	Mostly done, still needs about 30% review to complete	Supports Amtrak Southwest Chief passenger=national route=trains.
Spanish Peaks Subdivision	1420816 1420816	Trinidad - Walsenburg - Pueblo	Partly done, still needs about 60% review to complete	Segments have confused owner=* and operator=* tags. Spanish Peaks should be owner=BNSF and Walsenburg should be owner=UP. There are two lines/two tracks (three in places). According to US FRA's GIS site: Spanish Peaks has segments where both UP and BNSF are owners and others where BNSF is exclusive owner while UP has trackage rights. Trinidad north to Walsenburg BNSF is owner. Walsenburg north to Lascar is unclear. Lascar north to Commanche Spur, BNSF and UP share ownership. Commanche Spur north to Bessemer Junction, BNSF is owner. Bessemer Junction northwards, UP is owner, BNSF has trackage rights to Pueblo Junction (Pikes Peak Subdivision).
Twin Peaks Subdivision	1420812 1420812	Trinidad - Trinchera - Branson - Folsom, New Mexico - Des Moines, New Mexico - Clayton, New Mexico - Texline, Texas	Mostly done, still needs about 40% review to complete

Branch

Seems accurate. Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=branch.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Jersey Cut Off	8628645 8628645	Denver	Done	May need a bit of work aligning with (Old) "Buck Main"
Golden Subdivision	1430211 1430211	Golden - Arvada - Berkley	Needs TIGER review
Lyons Branch	1430212 1430212	Longmont - Hygiene - near Colorado SR 7/SR 36 intersection near Lyons	Largely TIGER reviewed	FIXME tags ask exactly where is the western end? Western end connects to old CB&Q abandoned line which continues to Lyons

Industrial

Needs work in Denver and Commerce City. Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=industrial.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Brush Power Plant Supply	The single way is entered	S off of Brush Subdivision E of Fort Morgan	No TIGER tags	Name is a guess. Additional sidings/yard/spur tags may need improvement.
Burnham Industrial Spur	8676736 8676736	W of of Burnham Yard, Denver	Done	Name is a guess. Serves Xcel Energy and Quivas Ready Mix.
Cloverleaf Spur	8676736 8676736	NE of Fort Collins	Moderately TIGER reviewed	Near the sidings this is accurate, but the main segment that diagonals SE still needs TIGER review; please check and finish tagging on the whole spur. Name is speculative based on the street name (east of I-25 underpass) of the industrial-appearing building at the final destination.
Electron Lead	8697787 8697787	Littleton/Sheridan	Partially TIGER Reviewed	Serves an industrial park SW of US 85 and West Oxford Avenue
Kountry Line	1430210 1430210	Denver - Arapahoe Station	Moderately TIGER reviewed	Goes a bit further south past the power plant to an industrial district with spurs; please check and finish tagging on the whole railway
Lafayette Industrial Spur	8628976 8628976	Front Range Subdivision - Lafayette	Needs TIGER review	Needs better usage=* tags
Lamar Industrial Spur	The single way is entered	Lamar	No TIGER tags	Rather confused; needs better service=* and perhaps usage=* tagging around Lamar
South Dakota Cement	8628976 8628976	Denver and Adams County	Done
Trinidad Industrial Spur	8596322 8596322	Trinidad	Needs TIGER review
Western Sugar Plant Spur	The single way is entered	Fort Morgan	No TIGER tags

Union Pacific (UP)

A major Class I North American railway.

Mainline

Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=main.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Colorado Springs Subdivision	1420814 1420814	Denver - Castle Rock - Colorado Springs - Pueblo	Mostly done, still needs about 40% review to complete	Fix this. Elements are confused in naming, sharing BNSF and UP. UP is owner, BNSF does have trackage rights, denote this at the track-element level by tagging with correct owner=* and operator=* tags. Better name=* tags on specific track elements is helpful. Around Colorado Springs, untangle with Pikes Peak Subdivision.
Greeley Subdivision	1421733 1421733	Denver - Brighton - Greely - Wyoming line	Done	There is a minor spur to a feedlot at Greeley Junction.
Green River Subdivision	1419636 1419636	Grand Junction - Utah line - Green River, Utah - Helper, Utah	Spottily TIGER Reviewed; change to yes if/as you complete it	Supports Amtrak California Zephyr passenger=national route=trains. Several usage=industrial service=spurs serve Grand Junction and Fruita.
Limon Subdivision	1421728 1421728	Denver - Sharon Springs, Kansas	About one-third TIGER reviewed	There are a LOT of industrial spurs off the western end of this (north of the Peoria Commuter rail station), as well as further eastward, near where this rail crosses I-70. Please review these and better tag the elements, if necessary.
Moffet Tunnel Subdivision	1419634 1419634	Denver (at Greeley Subdivision) - Arvada Gold Strike Station - "Big Ten Curve" / Coal Creek Canyon Park - Rollinsville - Tolland - Winter Park - Fraser - Tabernash (split) - Granby - Hot Sulphur Springs - Kremmling - Yampa - Phippsburg - Craig Subdivision	Almost zero TIGER review completed	Supports Amtrak California Zephyr passenger=national route=trains. Coordinate with other Julesburg routes, these need harmonization. The last 3 miles / 5 km of several track elements connecting to Greeley Subdivision in Commerce City are named "East Denver Belt Line" though are included in this relation.
Sidney Subdivision	7129340 7129340	North Platte, Nebraska - Julesburg - Cheynne, Wyoming	Done on entire relation, though a "double-check" review of the entire Sidney Subdivision (compared to FRA GIS data) is appreciated	Does this need to be harmonized with other routes around Julesburg?
Tennessee Pass Subdivision	1419637 1419637	Pueblo - Cañon City - Salida - Tennessee Pass - Dotsero	Somewhat TIGER reviewed, still more to do	Supports Amtrak California Zephyr passenger=national route=trains. Parts of this are tagged railway=disused; please check and fix. Also, usage=* tags seem confused. Needs work; see RRRR and railcar storage.
Walsenburg Subdivision	1420808 1420808	Walsenburg - Pueblo	Some done, still needs about 50% review to complete	BNSF has trackage rights

Branch

Seems accurate, though check name=* tags, these may be no more than an educated guess. As TIGER-imported data, it is often correct to simply change the name=* to operator=* tag. Finding a "current" or "local" name for a route=railway isn't always easy. Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=branch.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Craig Subdivision	1419638 1419638	Phippsburg - Oak Creek - Steamboat Springs - Craig - Empire Junction	Partially completed	Largely tagged usage=branch, please tag all elements in the relation consistently. There is a split south of the city of Craig that needs cleanup/untangling.
Fort Collins Subdivision	1430165 1430165	Fort Collins area, Timberline substation SSE - South Platte River - Milliken - La Salle Lead	Partially completed	Not sure where the edges are; fix
Julesburg Subdivision	1421772 1421772	Union at Brush Subdivision - Sterling - Julesburg	Done	From Brush Subdivision to Sterling, up to the Angora Subdivision crossover, is tagged usage=main. North, then east of Sterling this is tagged usage=branch. There is a spur (part disused, part abandoned) to the east of Ovid about which little is known.
North Fork Subdivision	1429187 1429187	Grand Junction - Delta - Hotchkiss - Paonia - West Elk Mine	Partially completed	Largely tagged usage=branch, please tag all elements in the relation consistently
La Salle (Industrial) Lead	1430164 1430164	La Salle (Greeley Subdivision) - South Platte River - Fort Collins Subdivision	Incomplete	Acts like "branch," is named "industrial" so, go figure
Pinnacle Peak Spur	8634445 8634445	Craig Subdivision near Milner/Saddle Mountain - Pinnacle Peak	Needs TIGER review	Name is a guess
UP Track 604 Sandown Line	8647186 8647186	Commerce City - Belt Jct., East Denver Belt Line (Moffat Tunnel Subdivision)	Needs TIGER review	Might be better named, might not! There are a LOT of industrial spurs south of this branch; please review them and better tag them if needed.

Industrial

Needs work in Denver and Commerce City. Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=industrial.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Boettcher Industrial Lead	1430166 1430166	Larimer County	Done
Boulder Industrial Lead	1430016 1430016	Commerce City	Partially TIGER reviewed	See the Union Pacific sub-section of the Abandoned section. Not clear where UP and BNSF histories/lines split.
Canon City Spur	8642558 8642558	About 2 km of spur in Pueblo off the southern end of Tennessee Subdivision, quite far east of Cañon City (to which it once might have connected through what is now Pueblo Reservoir?).	Needs TIGER review	Not sure if this is actually usage=industrial. May be used for railcar storage. Name is a guess.
Craig Industrial Lead	The single way is entered	Off Craig Subdivision to Mack Lane in Craig	Done	Tangled up with Craig Subdivision; not known where the split/boundaries between lines are
Craig Quarry Spur	8596344 8596344	To serve a quarry off Craig Subdivision	Incomplete	Connects to Craig Quarry Spur (and Empire Industrial Lead) at Empire Junction
Empire Industrial Lead	1430178 1430178	Once served Eagle #5 Coal Mine off the end of Craig Subdivision. Tagged usage=industrial but may be disused or abandoned.	Incomplete
Fort Carson Spur	8624674 8624674	To serve some military rail inside of Fort Carson	Mostly TIGER reviewed
Fort Collins Industrial Lead	1430168 1430168	Fort Collins area, about 12.7 km. From Timberline substation north to Kluver Reservoir Number 2	Incomplete
Hayden Industrial Spur	8634349 8634349	Serves Hayden power plant off Craig Subdivision	No TIGER tags
Monfort Industrial Lead	1430017 1430017	La Salle - Kersey	Partially complete	Not much is known about the abandoned segments east of Kuner, all the way to Julesburg Subdivision (NE of Brush). Please better tag and update the Abandoned table(s) here if you have better knowledge than what is now in OSM.
Montrose Industrial Lead	1429188 1429188	Delta (North Fork Subdivision) - Montrose	Needs TIGER review	Please fix: might be a UP industrial line, might be a Class III railroad
Parachute Industrial Lead	1430185 1430185	Grand Junction - Delta - Hotchkiss - West Elk Mine	Unknown
Rocky Flats Industrial Lead	1430167 1430167	Off Moffat Tunnel Subdivision near Coal Creek Canyon park northwards	Done	A spur north towards the National Wind Technology Center and a partial easterly spur (and a guessed-at abandoned/razed continuation) to a DOE Legacy site (now roughly Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge).
Ute Industrial Lead	1430176 1430176	SW of Craig	Done	Short spur off Craig Subdivision at Ute Junction
West Rifle Industrial Lead	The single way is entered	W of Rifle	Done	Short spur off Craig Subdivision. Name is a guess.

Short Line Rail

This attempts to be complete but is rough; please endeavor to review and improve. Try OpenRailwayMap (ORM) as it displays rail infrastructure, usage=* tags as different colors, name=* and other rail-related tags (tunnels/bridges, maxspeed=*, switches, signals and much more).

Branch

Seems accurate (even as it includes speculation and guesswork), though try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=branch. Yes, better, local knowledge IS BETTER!

Cimmaron Valley Railroad (CVR)

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Cimmaron Valley Railroad	8630926 8630926	Springfield - Walsh - Kansas Line	No TIGER review	This is the operator, no better name=* is known. Only the Colorado portion is included in this relation.

Great Western Railway (GWR)

Owned by OmniTRAX (a "railroad holding company"), Great Western Railway of Colorado, LLC operates multiple branch rail serving Fort Collins, Greeley, Kelim, Loveland, Johnstown, Longmont, Mead, Milliken and Windsor. GWR operates 80+ miles (~130 km) of track, interchanging with BNSF in Fort Collins, Loveland and Longmont and with UP in Greeley. GWR appears to have trackage rights on a short segment of Front Range Subdivision north of Fort Collins to GWR spur at the AB-InBev Plant. Greeley's Modern Railroad Museum is at the terminus of Fort Collins to Greeley branch. See also Great Western Trail in Railtrail section.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Fort Collins to Greeley	8633547 8633547	Fort Collins - Windsor - Greeley	Partially TIGER reviewed	Name and specific segmenting are a guess
Johnstown Welty Industrial Spur	8681381 8681381	Johnstown - Kahler	Needs TIGER review	This is tagged usage=industrial rather than usage=branch as it appears to be used for railcar storage before devolving into an abandoned line segment west of Kahler (it isn't clear where the western end is, though there is a siding at Kahler). Name and specific segmenting are a guess.
Johnstown to Milliken	8681380 8681380	Milliken	Needs TIGER review	Name and specific segmenting are a guess
Loveland to Johnstown	8681382 8681382	Loveland - Kelim - Johnstown	Needs TIGER review	Name and specific segmenting are a guess
Longmont to Johnstown	8681379 8681379	Longmont - Mead - Johnstown	Needs TIGER review	Name and specific segmenting are a guess
Windsor to Kelim	8681378 8681378	Windsor - Kelim	Needs TIGER review	Name and specific segmenting are a guess

Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad (KO)

The only known K&O railroad in Colorado is Hoisington Subdivision/Towner Line. As its status isn't known, (it may be disused), its entry is repeated in Disused section. According to wikipedia in 2005 (retrieved September 1, 2018), K&O owns ten other subdivisions besides Hoisington/Towner, all 11 in Kansas. K&O operates 820 miles on these 11 lines, another 84 miles is accounted for in trackage rights, perhaps these enter as a table in a Kansas/Railroads wiki? This single Colorado entry seems to suffice here since it appears only Towner is served via K&O's Hoisington Subdivision. How is this related to "Colorado Pacific Railroad" (COPR) if that entity exists? Caution: wet paint.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Hoisington Subdivision? (Towner Line only in Colorado?)	8630771 8630771	Pueblo Subdivision(s) - Ordway - Sugar City - Eads - Kansas Line (also listed as "Geneseo, Kansas to McCracken, Kansas and Healy, Kansas to Towner, Colorado")	Largely TIGER unreviewed	Towner Line? Hoisington Subdivision? A subsidiary of Watco Companies, so tag (owner=Watco). Add tag operator=Kansas & Oklahoma or operator=KO?

Kyle Railroad (KYLE)

Additional/remaining KYLE properties and trackage rights are complex and undergo frequent change; see w:Kyle_Railroad.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Goodland Subdivision	8630889 8630889	Limon - Flagler - Kansas Line	Somewhat TIGER reviewed	Needs double checking as to latest ownership and usage tagging; rough.

Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (NKCR)

There are many other railway properties owned by NKCR, this is the only one believed to be in Colorado.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Wallace Subdivision	8605834 8605834	Sterling - Fleming - Haxtun - Holyoke - Nebraska Line	Fully TIGER reviewed	Owned by OmniTRAX, a "railroad holding company." Name "Wallace Subdivision" is believed correct, but might not be.

San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad (SLRG)

SLRG is a class III railroad established by RailAmerica following divestiture of the tracks by UP (after acquisition of the D&RGW through merger with SP). Permian Basin Railways (a "railroad holding company") purchased SLRG from RailAmerica in 2005, so tag owner=Permian Basin Railways. SLRG operates three lines radiating from Alamosa: east to Walsenburg (over La Veta Pass) interchanging with UP, Alamosa south to Antonito, where it meets narrow gauge Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and Alamosa westward to Creede, serving San Luis Central Railroad.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Alamosa-Antonio Branch	8630145 8630145	Alamosa - Antonio	Needs TIGER review	Name is a guess
Creede Branch	1429433 1429433	Alamosa - Del Norte - Creede	Only lightly TIGER reviewed	Went as far as South Park at some point? Very little data.
Alamosa-Walsenburg Branch	1429380 1429380	Alamosa - La Veta Pass - Walsenburg	Only lightly TIGER reviewed	Name is a guess

San Luis Central Railroad (SLC)

SLC hauls sugar beets from grower to processor, operating freight traffic (grain, potatoes, fertilizer) through SLRG on its Creede Branch.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
San Luis Central Railroad	8596346 8596346	Sugar Junction (east of Monte Vista) - Center	Partially TIGER reviewed	Largely tagged usage=branch, please tag all elements in the relation consistently. Is there any more-specific name known for the line?

Utah Railway (UTAH)

In Colorado, this class III railroad, owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (a "railroad holding company") has trackage rights on UP's Green River Subdivision only between Grand Junction west to the Utah line. Operating mostly in Utah (and for about 35 miles / 56 km in Colorado), over 423 miles (681 km) between Grand Junction and Provo, Utah, 45 miles (72 km) believed to be owned, the rest as trackage rights via BNSF and UP. Tagged now as UP rail, UP elements may or may not be UP (could be UTAH; it could be that existing UP-ownership tagging is a TIGER-vestige); please clarify tags here if you can, please.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Trackage rights on Green River Subdivision	Relation not defined yet	Grand Junction - west to Utah line	Fully TIGER reviewed	Should we make a separate relation for the Colorado portion of this, with elements tagged operator=Utah Railway?

Industrial

Try a Colorado-based OT query for usage=industrial. Yes, better, local knowledge IS BETTER! There is a lot of industrial-appearing rail in and around Commerce City/that part of Denver near there and it isn't known which of these many spurs are UP or BNSF (most likely are) or are "other" (Class III?) rail that might go into this section. Map your best!

Colorado and Wyoming Railway (CW)

Sometimes known as "C&W Railroad," a subsidiary of Evraz North America, is on several miles/km of track inside Pueblo Steel Mills facility, believed interchanging with both UP and BNSF.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
C&W Railroad	8596066 8596066	Pueblo	Nearly complete	Needs minor work; yard line, some touchup, maybe final tagging

Denver Rock Island Railroad (DRIR)

A Class III switching/terminal railroad in Commerce City, interchanges with UP and BNSF, tag usage=industrial.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Cherokee Generating Station Spur	8669389 8669389	Commerce City	Done	Might be a private railroad, might be a UP or DRIR industrial spur, not known
Denver Rock Island Railroad	8633573 8633573	Commerce City, Denver	Done	Scattered tracks around Denver Union Stockyard. Needs a fair bit of (OSM tagging) work. Connect multiple yards? Needs work; seems incomplete.
North Washington Industrial Track	The single way is entered	Commerce City	Needs TIGER review	Many additional spurs off of this. Needs work; seems incomplete.

Deseret Power Railroad (DPRW)

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Deseret Power Railroad	8596380 8596380	Moffat & Rio Blanco Counties (Deserado Mine) - Utah Line - Bonanza Power Plant, Utah	Partial	This is a private Class III railroad, not a common carrier. It has no connection to the greater USA rail network.

Hudson Terminal Railroad (HTR)

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Hudson Terminal Railroad	8642757 8642757	Hudson	TIGER reviewed	A switching railroad offering storage, transloading, railcar painting, similar services on "12 miles of track" (according to its web site). Needs work where it connects to BNSF Brush Subdivision and is likely to be incomplete with the TIGER data that were imported; please improve with complete railway elements.

JBC Rail Services

While JBC isn't believed to be a common carrier, switching railroad, or known whether it offers rail car storage, it is unclear how to enter into OSM and/or this wiki. Their web site says they have facilities in Alamosa (UP) and Denver (BNSF).

Keenesburg Direct Railroad (KDR)

Appears to be a VERY short line railroad operating around Keenesburg.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Keenesburg Direct Railroad	8642897 8642897	Keenesburg	No TIGER tags	Please endeavor to verify and correct these very few rail elements as correct.

Rawhide Short Line (????)

A short industrial spur to serve the Rawhide Energy Station.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Rawhide Short Line	8641891 8641891	Off BNSF Front Range Subdivision, north of Fort Collins	Needs TIGER review	Tagging the member elements owner=Platte River Power Authority seems correct

Rock & Rail Railroad (RRRR), Denver Railway Car Company (DRCX)

May be a short line railroad operating around Cañon City, Pueblo and southern Colorado. Believed-correct tagging may be owner=Martin Marietta Materials. While the quarry activity seems inactive, this is believed used for freight car storage. How far west on TPS?

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Rock & Rail Railroad	8633632 8633632	Cañon City - Rainbow Stone Company Quarry	Partial	This is confusing, as it is tangled with Tennessee Pass Subdivision (TPS, never officially abandoned by UP). Now, portions of TPS may be used for freight car storage and it isn't known which of two lines of TPS are active. Much tagging to fix here, data are confusing.

Unknown

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Commanche Power Plant	8629045 8629045	Pueblo	No TIGER tags	Please fix: not known if this is a Class III or perhaps a private railroad. Member elements are tagged usage=industrial.
Niobrara Terminal	The single way is entered	E of Greeley Subdivision at the far north of Colorado (S of Cheyenne, Wyoming)	No TIGER tags	Unit train terminalling (up to 60 railcar trains), transloading trucks to railcars, railcar fleet and freight services. As it services the oil industry with tanker cars, tagged usage=industrial. Believed correct are old_railway_operator=USD Group and owner=Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.. Additional spurs, sidings and yard track look like they could use some work. Fix?
Miller-Coors Rail	8643423 8643423	Golden	No TIGER tags	Might be brewery-company owned, might be owned by BNSF, not sure.
GCC Cement?	The single way is entered	South of Pueblo	No TIGER tags	Fix? Could simply be a spur off of BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision tagged usage=industrial.
Vesta Towers?	The single way is entered	South of Pueblo	No TIGER tags	Fix? Could simply be a spur off of UP's Walsenburg Subdivision tagged usage=industrial.

Test

New rail technologies have to be tested somewhere!

Association of American Railroads (TTCI?)

At its "Transportation Technology Center, Inc." (TTCI) the Association of American Railroads has 67 km of track with the rare tag usage=test. There is a High Tonnage Loop, Impact Track, Precision Test Track, Railroad Test Track, Transit Test Track, Train Dynamics Track and Wheel Rail Mechanism track.

Name and/or Operator	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Association of American Railroads	8669714 8669714	East of Pueblo	Done	Seems OK

Passenger trains

Amtrak (passenger=national) trains serving Colorado (AMTK)

In Colorado, Amtrak® California Zephyr℠ serves Denver (Union Station), Fort Morgan (Sterling), Fraser-Winter Park, Granby (Rocky Mountain National Park), Glenwood Springs (Aspen) and Grand Junction. Amtrak® Southwest Chief® serves Lamar, La Junta, and Trinidad. Served via Amtrak® Thruway bus service are Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Raton, Frisco, Vail, Pine, Fairplay, Buena Vista, Salida, Poncha Springs, Moffat, Gunnison and Alamosa.

Route name	Trains (ref=*)	Passenger Service	type=route_master	type=route	Status and Notes
California Zephyr℠	5, 6	national	905830 905830	EMY-CHI 8440301 8440301 CHI-EMY 8440320 8440320	EMY-CHI CHI-EMY Mostly complete; public_transport v2. 2438 miles (Chicago - Emeryville, California). Underlying infrastructure route=railway relations look correct, though relation is very large. Platforms, amenities around them need improvement.
Southwest Chief®	3, 4	national	4720714 4720714	LAX-CHI 904839 904839 CHI-LAX 4720713 4720713	CHI-LAX LAX-CHI Complete; public_transport v2. 2265 miles (Chicago - Los Angeles).

Try OpenPublicTransportMap (OPTM): it displays passenger rail in route=train relations. At closer zooms, OPTM also displays route=light_rail, route=subway, route=tram, route=monorail, route=funicular, route=bus, route=trolleybus, route=aerialway and route=ferry with colors similar to ORM. Please compare and contrast ORM (rail infrastructure) and OPTM (passenger routes) with OSM's Transport layer which rather simply displays "any and all rail" (railway=*), though not disused or abandoned rail, and at closer zooms, route=bus. Here was another rail renderer which displayed rail-based passenger routes with their colour=* or color=* tag (no longer functional).

Colors are Amtrak passenger=national routes = blue. As both of Colorado's passenger=national Amtrak routes are lengthy overnight trains, these are assigned darker (web safe) blues: California Zephyr (DarkBlue), Southwest Chief (MediumBlue).

Regional (passenger=regional) trains (future RMRA?)

Presently, no "regional rail" exists in Colorado (middle-distances of 150 km to 1000 km; shorter than passenger=national rail but longer than passenger=suburban "commuter" trains, passenger=urban light-rail and passenger=local trams). Sometimes called "intercity." There are long-term plans for a high-speed regional corridor in the Front Range of Colorado, with extensions to neighboring Wyoming and New Mexico, largely driven by a non-profit corporation called "Front Range Commuter Rail" also affiliated with an intergovernmental agreement called the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority (RMRA). The stated goal of these organizations is to have higher- or high-speed commuter-oriented intercity rail at the same time as Denver RTD FasTracks mass transit fully comes on-line (some lines project out as far as 2044). While millions of dollars were raised since 2006 for feasibility studies and over 50 Colorado counties, cities, towns and transit authorities are RMRA members, results of studies proved promising ("positive operating ratio, positive cost-benefit ratio"). However, from over a decade ago; little is known beyond broad generalizations from RMRA's March, 2010 Final Report.

Commuter, City (passenger=suburban, passenger=urban) trains (RTDZ)

Denver RTD operates "commuter" route=train lines: University of Colorado A Line, B Line, G Line and N Line in two phases: Phase 1 Union Station to Eastlake•124th Station (now open) and Phase 2 to North Thornton•Hwy 7 (under construction). Eight route=light_rail lines operate presently: C Line, D Line, E Line, F Line, H Line, L Line, R Line and W Line. RTD's FasTracks multibillion-dollar public transportation expansion plan include B Line Boulder/Longmont extension, C & D Lines Highlands Ranch extension, G Line Golden extension, E, F, & R Lone Tree extensions and L Line Central Rail extension/loop. See a FasTracks Program Schedule, which plans routes out to 2044.

Develop local consensus whether operator=RTD is correct on infrastructure elements (track ways) and whether network=RTD is correct on route=train and/or route=light_rail relations. Is RTD globally unique? Is "Denver RTD" a better value for these keys? These values are suggestions, please reach local consensus. "Standardizing" on key:value pairs like name=RTD Light Rail Track 11 can be nice but often such details are not known. Keep potential or actual differing naming conventions to a minimum.

Try a medium-zoom local OpenPublicTransportMap (OPTM) rendering.

Denver RTD Trains (RTDZ)

A passenger "heavy rail" train is tagged route=train passenger=suburban when it is known as "suburban" or "commuter" rail. With these, both route=train and route=railway relations are in OSM (the latter is not tagged passenger=suburban). University of Colorado A Line, B Line, G Line and N Line (Phase 1) are active, entered into OSM and this wiki table. The route=railway relations are in OSM, though not in a wiki table. That's OK for now (especially as route=light_rail relations can "stand on their own" as public_transport v1 routes). Whether or not we put the "underlying infrastructure" route=railway relations into a wiki table here is a matter of preference. The idea is to develop proper route relations (railway, train, light_rail) and document them here simultaneously. RTD's type=network is 11026506 11026506.

Route	Passenger Service	route_master Relation	operator=*	Status
University of Colorado A Line: Denver Union Station -> Denver International Airport; Denver International Airport -> Denver Union Station	Train	9942719 9942719	RTD	A public_transport:version=2 relation.
B Line: Denver Union Station -> Westminster; Westminster -> Denver Union Station	Train	9942699 9942699	RTD	A public_transport:version=2 relation. There is a proposal to extend to Boulder/Longmont.
G Line: Wheat Ridge-Ward -> Denver Union Station; Wheat Ridge-Ward -> Denver Union Station	Train	9942698 9942698	RTD	A public_transport:version=2 relation. Sometimes known as "Gold Line." There is a proposal to extend to Golden.
N Line: Denver Union Station -> Eastlake•124th; Eastlake•124th -> Denver Union Station (Phase 1)	Train	11004619 11004619	RTD	A public_transport:version=2 relation.
N Line: Denver Union Station -> North Thornton•Hwy 7; North Thornton•Hwy 7 -> Denver Union Station (Phase 2)	Train	14222353 14222353	RTD	Proposed and/or under construction in the real world. When this opens as a Phase 2 extension to the N Line, change track element names as noted in the route=railway, 8644104 8644104, add its elements to both N Line relations, changing their names (and from and to tags) to Denver Union Station -> North Thornton•Hwy 7 and North Thornton•Hwy 7 -> Denver Union Station. Finally, delete this relation, as it is superfluous, being subsumed into 4846846 4846846 and its co-relation for N Line (in the opposite direction).

Denver RTD Light Rail (RTDZ)

A passenger "light rail" (city) train is tagged route=light_rail passenger=urban. These are included in RTD's type=network 11026506 11026506.

Route	Passenger Service	route_master Relation	operator=*	Status
C Line: Littleton-Mineral -> Union Station LoDo/Coors Field; Union Station LoDo/Coors Field -> Littleton-Mineral	Light Rail	9947502 9947502	RTD	public_transport:version=2
D Line: Littleton-Mineral -> 18th-California; 18th-California -> Littleton-Mineral	Light Rail	9947503 9947503	RTD	public_transport:version=2
E Line: Lincoln -> Union Station LoDo/Coors Field; Union Station LoDo/Coors Field -> Lincoln	Light Rail	9947507 9947507	RTD	public_transport:version=2
F Line: Lincoln -> 18th-California; 18th-California -> Lincoln	Light Rail	9947520 9947520	RTD	public_transport:version=2
H Line: Florida -> 18th-California; 18th-California -> Florida	Light Rail	9947525 9947525	RTD	public_transport:version=2
L Line: 16th-Stout -> 30th-Downing; 30th-Downing -> 16th-Stout	Light Rail	8668342 8668342	RTD	public_transport:version=2
R Line: Peoria -> Lincoln; Lincoln -> Peoria	Light Rail	9947529 9947529	RTD	public_transport:version=2
W Line: Jeffco Government Center-Golden -> Union Station LoDo/Coors Field; Union Station LoDo/Coors Field -> Jeffco Government Center-Golden	Light Rail	9947532 9947532	RTD	public_transport:version=2

Historic, heritage, museum, tourism, mining (passenger=local) trains

This first table contains route=railway relations.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Status
Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway	8609143 8609143	Manitou Springs - Pikes Peak	Complete	A complete route=railway. Tracks are tagged usage=tourism, railway:preserved=yes and are standard gauge. About 14 km of total track.
Colorado Railroad Museum	8643402 8643402	Golden	Looks OK	A complete route=railway. Contains spurs and other service track.
Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad	8653214 8653214	Cripple Creek	No TIGER tags	A complete route=railway. Tags are usage=tourism on the railway relation and railway=preserved (rather than railway=narrow_gauge) and gauge=610 on the member elements. There is some abandoned track at the end of the line to a vast number of mines and a large quarry.
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad	3814840 3814840	Antonio - Chama, New Mexico	Needs only a final "double-check/complete" TIGER review	Presently, only a complete route=railway; no route=trains are known enough to boost the entry in the next table to public_transport v1. This is a good start, let's discover any route=train relation(s) we might enter into the table below.
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad	1835092 1835092	Durango - Silverton	Complete	A complete route=railway. Tracks are tagged usage=tourism, railway=preserved, not railway=narrow_gauge, though they are additionally tagged gauge=914 (3 feet).
Georgetown Loop Railroad	1835093 1835093	Durango - Devil's Gate Station, south of Georgetown	No TIGER tags	A complete route=railway. Tracks are tagged usage=tourism, railway=preserved, not railway=narrow_gauge, though they are additionally tagged gauge=914 (3 feet). Coordinate with Argentine Central Railroad Grade Trail (see Railtrail section), as it appears OSM is implying it is OK to hike on the narrow gauge right of way to connect discontiguous segments of the Trail.
Idarado Mine Narrow Gauge Railway	8632995 8632995	About 10 km (as the crow flies) SSE of Telluride, on the "Million Dollar Highway."	This was not entered via TIGER	A complete route=railway. Tracks are tagged railway=narrow_gauge and gauge=610, though are tagged neither usage=tourism nor railway=preserved as this is not passenger rail. (So, no route=train entry should be in the table below).
Platte Valley Trolley	8642520 8642520	Confluence Park, Denver	Complete	A complete route=railway. Tracks are tagged usage=tourism, railway=preserved. About 2 km total track.
Royal Gorge Route Railroad	Relation not defined yet	Cañon City	Unknown	Does not appear to be any information in OSM. This is complex rail area, especially with getting OSM tags accurately entered. Helpful might be w:Royal Gorge Route Railroad.

This second table contains route=train relations. Remaining unknown are Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and Rio Grande Scenic Railroad route=train relations. Known destinations/stations and current online/printed schedules are useful sources as passenger rail routes and platform locations develop in OSM.

In the USA, passenger=local is sometimes tagged on historic/heritage/museum/tourism/mining route=train relations. Also, passenger=local is sometimes seen on, for example, airport-style railway=monorail or "People Mover" trains (often conductor-less / fully automated) linking airport terminals, rental car areas, long-term parking and correspondences with other transit networks.

Route	Trains	Passenger Service	Relation	Status
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad	No route=train relation(s) is/are known on between Antonio and Chama, New Mexico	local	Relation not defined yet	Needs "some" data about train routes here
Durango & Silverton Historic Train Route	Please complete with Train #s, departure times, known schedules, seasonal closures, etc.	local	3343191 3343191	A complete v1 route=train relation between Durango - Silverton; nice!
Fort Collins Municipal Railway	A seasonal heritage streetcar service, running primarily on Spring and Summer weekends.	local	8653193 8653193	A complete v1 route=tram for almost 3 km in Fort Collins; nice! Also tagged usage=tourism.
Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway	Suspended "for the foreseeable future"	local	6723194 6723194	A "would-be" complete v1 route=train relation for the cog railway between Manitou Springs - Pikes Peak; nice! Unfortunately, as of 2018 passenger rail service seems to be indefinitely suspended "for the foreseeable future," the route=train tag was removed from this relation. So, this is a sort of placeholder until OSM receives more news.
Platte Valley Trolley	From Memorial Day through Labor Day, Th, Fr, Sa, Su and Mo, first run leaving Confluence Park at 11:30 AM and last run of the day leaving at 4:30 PM, as well as additional "special event" trains (including Children's Museum of Denver First Tuesdays, the South Platte River Festival, Denver Broncos home games and the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown between Colorado State University and the University of Colorado)	local	8652420 8652420	A complete v1 route=tram relation for this trolley; nice!
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad	Little is known, except that the route is Alamosa - Fort Garland - Fir - La Veta and that some serve Antonio	local	Relation not defined yet	As a subsidiary heritage railroad of SLRG, these trains travel its Alamosa-Walsenburg Alamosa-Antonio Branch rail. What is not known is any route=train data beyond that except trains serve La Veta and Antonio during summer months. See w:Rio_Grande_Scenic_Railroad and help improve this if you can.

Greeley's Modern Railroad Museum is at the terminus of GWR's Fort Collins to Greeley branch.

New entries here might include Iron Mountain Tramway and Alpine Slide rail at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park (north of Glenwood Springs), Lakeside Amusement Park, the Pioneer Train at Denver Zoo and the numerous rail-oriented rides in Denver's Elitch Gardens Theme Park. Depending on similar Colorado rail facilities, create a new section/table for amusement park rail. California has substantial amusement park rail (and similar private rail), California/Railroads/Passenger/Tourism struggles with similar categorization and tagging. Map your best, wiki your best!

Disused Rail

There is a fair amount of rail tagged railway=disused in Colorado. Try this OT query and help to complete this table!

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Manter District	The single way is entered	West of Springfield	Needs TIGER review	About 21 km of disused/abandoned railway which seem to be abandoned by BNSF.
Tennessee Pass Subdivision	1419637 1419637	Segments in Fremont County	Needs TIGER review	Several segments are tagged railway=disused. See also Rock and Rail entry below in Short Line/Industrial as these two railroads blur a bit. And, some segments may technically be in use (even if for rail car storage), this remains unclear in 2018.
Towner Line	8630771 8630771	East from interchanges with UP and BNSF near North Avondale Junction to Towner, exchanging with K&O at Kansas Line?	Needs TIGER review	Many segments are tagged are usage=branch, but may be better tagged without a usage=* tag and more accurately tagged with railway=disused or railway=abandoned

Abandoned Rail

There is a substantial amount of rail tagged railway=abandoned in Colorado. Try this OT query and help to complete these tables! The following list is incomplete; the central portion of the state needs the most attention from results of this query. If you can, please update with better data/tagging and make table entries in this section with either OT query results, the following text-based suggestions, or both.

Around Leadville is an especially rich source of abandoned rail (Frying Pan Road, FSR 33 Boreas Pass Road, Hagerman Pass Road with Carlton Tunnel, Henderson Tunnel, Ivanhoe Lake Road, CR 5, CR 38, CR 48, Mineral Belt Trail, the Mosquito Pass through FairPlay and near Alma, the Rio Grand Trail's access to Aspen — railtrail? — Rocky Mountain Railway from Granby to Lake Granby, South Park Line's Como to Breckenridge and Frisco Spurs, Turquoise Lake Road and an unknown 16+ km segment largely paralleling CO SR 91, among others) which should be added here. Some of this (Leadville Colorado & Southern Railroad) is tagged railway=preserved and so as active tourist rail goes into the Tourism/Historic/Heritage section rather than here. Further south, find US 285, County Roads 304, 307, 311 371, and "1450" (as railway=abandoned), too. Much to do!

Not much is known about the abandoned segments east of Kuner, all the way to Julesburg Subdivision (NE of Brush). Please better tag and update the Abandoned table(s) here if you have better knowledge than what is now in OSM.

Southeast of Windsor there is a cluster of (industrial?) spurs that could use better tagging (name, perhaps usage=industrial, if true). In the USA, this tag is often used on rail which "serves clusters of businesses engaged in light- or heavy-industry in urban industrial zones."

West of Sterling there is substantial abandoned rail almost the whole distance to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Likewise from Laramie, Wyoming southwest to the Arapahoe National Wildlife Refuge.

Atchinson Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF)

Name	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
A.V. Subdivision	AT&SF	8657695 8657695	Kornman (end of abandoned Lamar Subdivision) - west to Wiley - gap - Cheraw - Swink (spur to airport)	No TIGER tags
Lamar Subdivision	AT&SF	8657681 8657681	Lamar - north to Kornman	No TIGER tags
Pueblo District	AT&SF	The single way is entered	NA Junction - Pueblo Chemical Depot	No TIGER tags	Has two easterly spurs: a sinuous one roughly following Colorado SR 94, the other further south from Franceville Jct. easterly then due NE towards (but not to) Schriever AFB. Note there are at least two "Pueblo Districts" in CB&Q's Abandoned section, one NE of Falcon to Elbert.

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ)

Name and/or Operator	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Abandoned CB&Q Line	CB&Q	8659284 8659284	Trinidad	No TIGER tags	Is a better name known? Is part of this actually abandoned D&RGW line?
Erie Branch	CB&Q	8676654 8676654	Longmont - Idaho Creek - Erie	Done	Name is speculative. A short segment near GWR's Longmont Crossover looks active, the rest (to Erie) appears abandoned. Might this (if active) be a part of GWR? Needs better name tags.
Georgetown	CB&Q	The single way is entered	Georgetown - north of Georgetown Lake - becomes "center alignment" of I-70 further north	No TIGER tags	Is a better name known? A FIXME tag describes this as "rough alignment in places," that is putting it kindly. Narrow gauge (3 feet).
Gray Creek Branch	CB&Q	The single way is entered	Twin Peaks Subdivision east of Trinidad, southwards	No TIGER tags
Pueblo District #1	CB&Q	The single way is entered	Pueblo - Fountain - Colorado Springs	No TIGER tags	Please harmonize naming of "Pueblo District" lines, both CB&Q (abandoned) and BNSF.
Pueblo District #2	CB&Q	The single way is entered	NE of Falcon almost 30 km north to Elbert	No TIGER tags	Please harmonize naming of "Pueblo District" lines, both CB&Q (abandoned) and BNSF.
Lyons Branch	CB&Q	8656881 8656881	Lyons	Done	FRA says this is active rail, but in 2015 it was tagged railway=abandoned in OSM. Recent imagery suggests railway car storage happens up to at least Highland Drive (is there a buffer stop there) and what looks like a combination of distinctly abandoned line and "now this ROW is a partly paved street in a small town" tagging. Western "extent" might be assumed as Highland Drive; a "storage/abandoned" edge until better data supersede.
Loveland West	CB&Q	8671886 8671886	Loveland Westward to an old quarry	Done	Name is a guess. Is this CB&Q or GWR?
Trinidad Line	CB&Q	8605678 8605678	Trinidad	Slightly TIGER reviewed
Platte Canon District (or South Park Line?)	CB&Q	1424244 1424244	Kassler (south of Lockheed Martin) - gap at the Strantia Springs Reservoir - Buffalo Creek - Pine Valley Ranch Park - Bailey - through the northern part of South Park to Como	Largely TIGER reviewed; let's finish it!	An amalgamation of what might be abandoned rail (might not) which is also part road, part equestrian trail, part narrow_gauge, part hiking trail, part closed access, part Main Street, part US Highway 285. Does this include segments from West Elk Wilderness through Gunnison, Forest Service Road 836, Alpine Tunnel, Tunnel Lake Trail 1451, County Road 295 to Alpine easterly to Narrow Gauge Road 1432, County Road 290 and County road 162 to Nathrop? Help! Improvements/better tagging/moving to a better section in this wiki are welcome!
Rex Quarry Industrial Lead	CB&Q	8663492 8663492	Fort Collins northwards to Rex Quarry	Needs TIGER review	Name is a guess
Wellington Lead	CB&Q	The single way is entered	Front Range Subdivision at Wellington W to Waverly	No TIGER tags	Name is a guess. A FIXME tag says "rough alignment"

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW)

Name and/or Operator	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Crestone Branch	D&RGW	8657822 8657822	Moffat - Crestone - SE to Cottonwood Creek	Partially TIGER reviewed	Why to the southern end? Where is it, exactly?
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	D&RGW	8632759 8632759	Pueblo - furthest westward reaches to Lake Pueblo State Park (old Tennessee Pass Subdivision alignment fork)	Needs partial TIGER review; alignment is mostly good, but could use improvement in spots	May need to be more fully completed with multiple parallel alignments. Is a better name known?
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	D&RGW	8630948 8630948	S of Pueblo - near Walsenburg - Crest branch Ludlow - Trinidad	No TIGER tags	Is a better name known?
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	D&RGW	The single way is entered	Glenwood Springs - Chakra	No TIGER tags	Is a better name known?
Lake City Branch	D&RGW	1429186 1429186	Sapinero - Lake City	Done
Monarch Branch	D&RGW	1425378 1425378	Salida - Poncha Springs - Garfield - Great Monarch Mine	No TIGER tags
Orient Branch	D&RGW	8676630 8676630	Salida to Alamosa (branch) - eastward to Black Canyon Wilderness Study Area (old Orient Mine)	Done	Name came from a single element which was found in TIGER data, the rest were pieced together and inferred to be part of the same railway
Ouray to Poncha	D&RGW	1429181 1429181	Ouray Jct. (Montrose) - Gunnison - Poncha Jct. (Poncha Springs)	Done	Name is a guess
Ridgway Branch / Ouray Branch	D&RGW	1429183 1429183	Ouray Jct. (Montrose) - Ridgway - Ouray	Partially TIGER reviewed	Name is a guess
Salida to Alamosa	D&RGW	1429241 1429241	Salida - Alamosa	No TIGER tags	Name is a guess
Santa Fe Branch (Chili Line)	D&RGW	8633096 8633096	South off the end of SLRG's Alamosa-Antonio spur.	Slightly TIGER reviewed	Several miles/km south to the New Mexico Line, the abandoned rail line continues 83.4 km (>50 miles) into New Mexico, largely paralleling highway US 285 into the southern Carson National Forest. Believed to be a D&RGW narrow-gauge rail that went to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
US 160	D&RGW	8657844 8657844	Walsenburg Subdivision	Needs TIGER review	Virtually nothing is known about this line; please add data here or tags in OSM if you know them.

Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS)

Name and/or Operator	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Rio Grande Southern Railroad	Rio Grande Southern Railroad	8658026 8658026	Navajo State Park (Navajo Lake) - Durango - Chama, New Mexico	Partially TIGER reviewed	Virtually nothing is known about this line; please add data here or tags in OSM if you know them.
Rio Grande Southern Railroad	Rio Grande Southern Railroad	The single way is entered	Ridgway - westward crossing Pleasant Valley Creek, then southward to meet SH 62	No TIGER tags	Virtually nothing is known about this line; please add data here or tags in OSM if you know them. There is a .edu web link on the way, perhaps this was a research project.

Union Pacific (UP)

Name	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Boulder Industrial Lead (abandoned)	Union Pacific	8669346 8669346	East of Boulder eastwards to St. Vrain	No TIGER tags	Difficult to determine whether this is disused or abandoned (some aerial photos show railcars, storage?) From TIGER tags appears to have been a UP line. Please improve with better tagging, if known.
Firestone-St. Vrain Trail Alignment	Union Pacific	8671920 8671920	From Metro North's proposed northward extension terminus at St. Vrain to the Fort Collins Subdivision and La Salle Branch wye at Milliken	Lightly TIGER reviewed	Name is speculative. From TIGER tags, appears to have been a UP line. Please improve with better tagging, if known. Part of this is existing railtrail, hence the derived name.

Unknown/Other (CM, CRIP, CW, SSLV, others)

Name and/or Operator	old_railway_operator=*	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Colorado Midland Railroad	CM	1424267 1424267	Manitou Springs - Glenwood Springs - New Castle	Slightly TIGER reviewed
Colorado & Wyoming Railway	CW	8596321 8596321	Trinidad - west to near Stonewall	Incomplete
Engleville Branch	?	The single way is entered	Engleville Junction - Engleville Road	No TIGER tags	Described as having "rough alignment." Please improve if you can.
Moffat Road	Denver & Salt Lake Railway?	4275110 4275110	Tolland - Winter Park	Somewhat TIGER reviewed	A complex, mountainous, sinuous collection of abandoned rail elements superseded by Moffat Tunnel. Sometimes known as (including or part of) Rollins Pass.
San Acacio Spur?	Southern San Luis Valley Railroad (SSLV)	8657802 8657802	From Walsenburg Subdivision at Blanca south to the eastern edge of San Acacia to New Mexico Line	Fully TIGER reviewed	Virtually nothing is known about this line; please add data here or tags in OSM if you know them. Name is speculative.
Uintah Railway	?	8659238 8659238	Mack (Green River Subdivision) - NNW to Utah Line	Unknown	Shares "4 Road" for a while, largely parallels Garfield County Road 25, then slips into Utah's Uintah County
?	Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (CRIP)	8657787 8657787	E of Colorado Springs - Falcon - Peyton - Limon	No TIGER tags	Most of this is "Rock Island Regional Trail" (railtrail).

Military Rail

There is a limited amount of "US Government Railroad" in Colorado, though it isn't known if it is active, disused or abandoned. Try this OT query, which currently returns limited results of (possibly disused or abandoned) military rail.

Railtrails

A railtrail uses a former railroad right-of-way (ROW) for equestrian, bicycle or hiking paths, preserving the ROW for possible future re-use as a railway while providing a useful service in the meantime. These are often tagged highway=cycleway or highway=footway depending on whether they prefer or allow bicycle or pedestrian traffic. It is OK to tag both railway=abandoned and highway=cycleway if it is the case that an abandoned railway became a railtrail (for bicycle use, for example). Where a (multi-use) pathway is designated for pedestrians but also allows bicycles, tag highway=footway and bicycle=yes.

Clearly, this is an early Railtrails table. It needs more work and to be more fully statewide due to lack of local knowledge of Colorado's railtrails. For example, see CRIP above in the Abandoned section and discover that Rock Island Regional Trail is a result from CRIP's abandonment, so enter the railtrail here. Similarly with Fort Collins' Mason Trail and the Firestone/St. Vrain Alignment north of Denver.

Fort Collins has at least two MAX (highway=bus_guideway) ROWs, these emerge in rail wikis as "Transitways" sections. As many of these are existing (parallel) and/or abandoned rail ROW, consider finding these in Colorado (here is an OT query to do so), then include them in a new Transitway section of this wiki.

Name	Relation	Route	TIGER Review	Notes
Argentine Central Railroad Grade Trail	8656483 8656483	Silver Plume, southward	Needs TIGER review	A local hiking route network=lhn with all elements completely tagged railway=abandoned. Not clear if from "Argentine" (old railroad?) or from old Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ROW. Needs work as it has elements which apppear to have become roads; please check. Also, coordinate with Georgetown Loop Railroad (in Tourism section).
Arkansas River Multi-Use Path	8632807 8632807	Pueblo State Park	No TIGER tags	Partly tagged railway=abandoned from old Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ROW.
Great Western Trail	3012088 3012088	North of Window - Severance	Needs TIGER review	Partly gravel, partly dirt, partly paved. Needs work.

Yards

It would be very kind for more OSM volunteers to build up this statewide "Yards" table (stub) with status on every single Colorado rail yard. It is incomplete as there are dozens of rail yards in Colorado. Here is an OT query to help get started.

Name	Railroad(s)	Area	Subdivision(s) Served	TIGER Review	Status
31st Street	Unknown	Denver	Unknown	Unknown	Simply a stub entry
Burnham	Unknown	Denver	Unknown	Unknown	Simply a stub entry
North Denver	Union Pacific (, BNSF?)	Denver	Moffat Tunnel, Colorado Springs, BNSF Front Range	Unknown	Good coverage as it appears in Bing, but certainly needs review since the import of these data.
Rennick	Unknown	Denver	Unknown	Unknown	Simply a stub entry
South Side	Unknown	Denver	Unknown	Unknown	Simply a stub entry

Color semantics

About (status) colors in TIGER Review, Route, Name columns

Green means that the route's (TIGER) data highly approach or are fully OSM-reviewed. This strongly implies other relation attributes are correct, but this isn't always strictly true; see Notes/Status column. Green does not conflict with active public_transport:version=* v1-v2 growth. Go!

Yellow means "only partially reviewed" ; additional volunteer work is needed to enter or correct additional route data (railway and/or train) into OSM. Yellow may also mean a route has a volunteer entering data, yet route ambiguities persist about what is actually correct. TIGER review is an early priority (do first or now), and tiger_reviewed=no tag should be deleted now when true or superseded by newer, better data.

Red means "something" (often very little) is known about the route (or yard), so it is useful to put a row in the table about it as a placeholder, but it is early in creating a route relation: route data attributes are unknown or significantly missing/incomplete and need work.

About (branding) colors in Passenger Service columns

For route=train, route=subway, route=light_rail, route=tram web-displayed colors are intended to reflect real-world colors denoted by the transportation authority network, such as in printed, painted or otherwise visually branded materials directly associated with a particular route. For the Amtrak routes, a goal is towards more state/national agreement/completion. An initial example is that for Amtrak Cascades service in Washington state and Oregon, OSM's Amtrak wiki table and Mapzen's former transit-colours renderer (no longer functional) both display a closely matching shade of green, which in turn (by intention) better match livery of rolling stock found only on those tracks by that line and class of service. Similar early harmony among Amtrak and California/Railroads is underway, e.g. Capitol Corridor as orange, color of California poppy, the state flower and Pacific Surfliner as ocean blue. Color harmony, in motion.

About the colors and symbols in Amtrak® routes Status and Notes column

Color and symbol legend: status of each route is indicated by a symbol, which describes the type of feature, and a color, which indicates the completeness of that feature in OSM. For more details, see Wiki Help. Meaning of symbols:

Symbol	Meaning
	Route status
	Stops status

"Bus stops" in this context (using "State Route Legend" syntax) means "Amtrak® stops." The visual symbols are concise, and while originally designed for bus stops, also work well for train routes.

Base Code	NA	0	1	2	3	4	X
{{State Route|r=...|h=}}	- implies status unknown	- no part of route added	- route partly added (as relation)	- route mainly added, needs completing	- route relation complete (in view of 1 editor). Should be verified.	- route complete & verified by second editor. Please date.	- route does not exist in real world.
{{State Route|r=|h=...}}	- implies status unknown	- no stops added to relation	- some stops added	- most stops added, needs completing	- all stops added to relation (in view of 1 editor). Should be verified.	- route complete & verified by second editor. Please date.	- no stops in real world. Unlikely to be used without r=X as well.

The codes 0-4 are a logical progression, but they do not all have to be used in sequence. It is perfectly acceptable to go from 0 (nothing on map) to 3 (everything done in opinion of one editor). However, there should never be a jump to level 4. r=4 should only appear after r=3, and the same with h=3 & h=4, as this implies the relation has been checked by both the editor who completed it (level 3), and a second editor (level 4). Given these are different people, a jump up to level 4 from anything other than 3 is not possible.

In this wiki, this symbology is used as relations indicate where public_transport:version=1 is becoming version 2. The route_master column will eventually be fully populated with v2 relations as v1 routes upgrade to v2, the type=route_master column data acting as "entry point" into these Amtrak routes, the type=route column linking to "directional" child relations.