Denver plays an important role as a railroad city. Its location made it an important gateway to the crossing of the Rocky Mountains to the west.
The Rio Grande connected Denver to Salt Lake City, while railroads such as the Chicago Burlington and Quincy and Rock Island connected Denver to Chicago. Santa Fe continued to the southwest to Los Angeles. Union Pacific, in the years before its acquisition of the Rio Grande and then the Southern Pacific as well as the Chicago and North Western, connected Denver to Omaha. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy would become part of Burlington Northern, which would ultimately merge with Santa Fe to form BNSF.
See my Railroads of Denver artwork at customtrains.org
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