Denver & Rio Grande Engine House
Custer County
Constructed in 1900-01, the engine house served the Westcliffe terminus of the branch line from Texas Creek. The engine house and the depression left by the removal of the turntable are all that remain of the Texas Creek branch of the D&RG railroad line.
Denver & Rio Grande Engine House.
Few historic engine houses of any type survive in Colorado, and engine houses were not commonly built on branch lines. This example of a single stall branch line engine house is particularly rare.