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Engines fire up for this weekend's Railroad Days

Colfax continues to observe its railroad heritage this weekend when the community celebrates Union Pacific’s 150th anniversary during the annual Colfax Railroad Days, presented b ...

Railroad Days rolls out history celebration

It won’t take too much imagination this weekend to conjure up visions of Colfax’s railroad heyday. Scheduled to arrive late Wednesday was a historic Western Pacific Railroad Mu ...

Pullman car's commemorative plaque is back in place

Befitting the Railroad Days 2011 event in Colfax this weekend, this is a tale about a large piece of metal that lost, and then found, its plaque. Built in 1923 by the American Car ...

Colfax Chronicles

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 2001 – While the nation continues to mourn the loss of Americans in the terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., Colfax area residents cont ...