Colorado Model Railroad Museum is home to America’s largest HO Scale prototypical model train layout and it is Colorado’s largest 5,500 square foot operating model railroad delights visitors with its scenic views. It features a HO gauge model railroad layout, ten separate wiring systems, more than 500 scale locomotives, buildings, 80 scale miles of train track, thousands of other handmade artifacts including around 28,000 handmade trees.
The museum displays over 1,100 railroad artifacts from across the country, including signals, signs, keys, locks, photos, tools, towels, passes, timetables, lanterns, and more. The largest “artifact” is the last wooden caboose from the Colorado and Southern railroad to be operated on that railroad’s system: C&S caboose 10583, which was retired in 1974. The caboose is fully furnished inside and out and is open for public inspection when the museum is open.
