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Railroad History of Palisade Program

Wednesday, January 25th – 7 p.m. at the Veteran’s Memorial Community Center in Palisade

The next program in the Palisade Reflections series features Matt Darling, a fourth generation, self described railfan presenting the history of Railroads at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25th at the Veteran’s Memorial Community Center located at 8th and Main Streets in Palisade. This program is free and open to the public. 

Darling has extensively researched the fascinating history of railroads which faced enormous difficulty building through Colorado’s mountains. He will also explain how that struggle brought the Rio Grande & Colorado Midland railroads to Palisade which were important to our agriculture and coal mining history.

Matt Darling is a dedicated railroad buff and has studied railroad history most of his life. Born in Lafayette, Colorado, he began building scale model trains at age six. He has been a member of the Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society for over ten years and Also volunteers at the Loyd Files Research Library at the Museums of Western Colorado.