* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.

North La Veta Pass, through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used by US Highway 160 and by the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad ( formerly a branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western ) tracks.

Elevation rises as you go north in the valley to Poncha Pass, used now by US Highway 285 and historically by the narrow gauge tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

The pass is traversed by State Highway 17 and the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad ( originally built as the San Juan Extension of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad that ran to Durango, Colorado ).

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande or D & RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, is a defunct U. S. railroad company.

Baldwin Locomotive Works | Baldwin's Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.

The Denver and Rio Grande Railway ( D & RG ) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General William Jackson Palmer and a board of four directors.

It was originally announced that the new gauge railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the San Luis Valley of Colorado toward the Rio Grande River.

By late 1880 William Bell had begun to organize railway construction in Utah that would become the Palmer controlled Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway in mid 1881.

Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver and Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad open observation car 1917. JPG | Unlike other lines with open observation cars for non first class passengers, the D & RGW operated theirs for an additional 25 cent charge.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Royal Gorge train. JPG | D & RGW's Royal Gorge at the bottom of the gorge with the suspension bridge above.

File: The Royal Gorge Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. JPG | The train in the shadow of Colorado's highest mountain, Mount Elbert.

The original Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway built a narrow gauge line from Ogden, Utah via Soldier Summit, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado.

In 1901, the Denver and Rio Grande merged with the Rio Grande Western, consolidating in 1908.

While working with a Western band in Denver, Colorado, Atkins came to the attention of RCA Victor.

Western cities such as Denver and Sacramento originated as mining towns.

* Denver sandwich or Western sandwich

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ( D & RGW or DRGW ) was incorporated in 1920, and formally emerged as the new re-organization of the old Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on July 31, 1921.

In 1931, the D & RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad ( a company in name only ), a subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad ( D & SL ) which had acquired the rights to build a connection between the two railroads.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

The line from San Francisco, California, to Toledo, Ohio, was completed in 1909, consisting of the Western Pacific Railway, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Wabash Railroad.

** Santa Fe Branch ( Chili Line ), a narrow-gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

In the early 1880s, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad began investigating rail routes through the Emery County region.

Denver clinched the 8th seed in the Western Conference playoffs, playing the first place Seattle SuperSonics.

Denver ended up as the 8th seed in the Western Conference of the 2008 NBA Playoffs, and their 50 wins marked the highest win total for an 8th seed in NBA history.

They finished the season as the top seed in the Western Conference with a record of 58 – 24, and beat the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings in the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs.

In a tight Western Conference, the Jazz finished 53 – 29 and lost the division in a tiebreaker with the Denver Nuggets, ending with the No. 5 seed, matched up with the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs.

In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000, and the Burlington Route its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes.

They began play in 1993, sharing Mile High Stadium with the National Football League's Denver Broncos their first two seasons while Coors Field was constructed.

The hyperbolic paraboloid structure was removed when the Denver Pavilions facility was constructed.

These projects and others in New Mexico were necessitated because these stretches of I-25 were inadequately designed and constructed originally ( the pavement was deteriorating rapidly ), and also because urban areas like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Albuquerque had tripled and quadrupled in population much earlier than anyone had anticipated back in the 1950s and 1960s.

As U. S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed.

In 1883 the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad main line was constructed across eastern Utah.

It joins the river at a sluice above King's Lynn, and was made navigable in 2001, when the Environment Agency constructed a lock at Denver to provide access.

Just above Barton Mills, a side weir connects the river to the start of the Cut-off Channel, a 25-mile ( 40 km ) drain running from there to Denver along the south-eastern edge of the Fens, which was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Channel is a drain which runs from Barton Mills to Denver along the south-eastern edge of the Fens, and was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s.

Below the village is the junction with the Cut-Off Channel, a 25-mile ( 40 km ) drain running from Barton Mills on the River Lark to Denver along the south-eastern edge of the Fens, which was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Romans constructed the Fen Causeway, a road across the Fens to link what later became East Anglia with what later became central England ; it runs between Denver and Peterborough.

While Denver International was being constructed, planners began to consider how the Stapleton site would be redeveloped.

The Omni in Atlanta ( now the site of Philips Arena ), McNichols Sports Arena in Denver ( now a parking lot for Sports Authority Field ), and the Coliseum at Richfield in Cleveland ( now an open meadow in the process of being reclaimed by forest ) were all constructed during this period and remained in service until the continued growth of the NBA sparked a new arena construction boom in the late 1990s.

Pepsi Center was constructed as part of a large six-year sporting venue upgrade in Denver along with Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, and Sports Authority Field at Mile High ( formerly Invesco Field at Mile High ), home of the Denver Broncos.

The railroad was constructed eastward from Denver as well as westward from Kansas City.

After several late-night test broadcasts, using the experimental call letter 6XG, radio station KGO signed on the air on January 8, 1924, from General Electric's Oakland, electrical facility ( the original two-story brick building, constructed specifically for the station on East 14th Street, still exists on the site ), as part of a planned three-station network comprising WGY in Schenectady, New York, and KOA in Denver, Colorado.

The first railroad station in Denver was constructed at Wazee and Wynkoop streets in present-day Lower Downtown.

A small branch of the main line south of Denver connected to Morrison ( this line was actually constructed first ).

In the middle and late 1870s, the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad constructed the first railroad through the canyon and through the valley of the North Fork to South Park and eventually to Leadville and Gunnison.

Wilber, who composed the music for " Back to Dear Old Denver Town " ( 1912 ), was the first manager of the Fox Fullerton Theater ( Fullerton, California ) after it was constructed in 1924-25.