Como Depot

At this railroad crossing, you don’t need to look both ways…because the train ain’t coming.

This once-active railroad depot was created toward the end of the nineteenth century as silver was falling into miners’ pockets around Denver, and the railroad was extended into an unincorporated area of Park County, Colorado. The depot, originally referred to as Como Roundhouse, maintained trains for a time, but its tenure was brief. No one has had to “look out for the cars” since 1937, when it was abandoned. But the depot was recently revived as a museum showcasing Colorado’s regional rail history.

The project is an ongoing venture, offering a high likelihood that this crossing sign will not remain standing in vain. Multipronged efforts also continue, with no success whatsoever, to uncover a relationship between the depot and Italy’s glistening lake of the same name.

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