My father, Ron Peck, met Bob Richardson in 1952. He helped Bob take the main rods off RGS # 42 for shipment to Alamosa. When Bob decided to move the museum to Denver, he had his eye on property out where the Denver Tech Center is now. It was a lot more land than the current site. My father had grown up on 44th Avenue, and told Bob that he knew a family named Bailey that were selling their farm. It was right off the old C&S main, and is now where CRRM is today. My dad helped move the first piece of equipment (Goose #2) to the museum, and Bob honored him with museum membership #1. Up until a few years ago, the museum had my father's first model railroad on display in a glass case. CRRM has changed a lot, but has a special bit of history for me.
When I was a kid, we visited CRRM many Thursday nights and sorted through paperwork and pictures with Bob Richardson, and he would tell stories the entire night. Attached is a picture of Bob Richardson burning some paperwork. It was the celebration of Bob Richardson paying of the mortgage to the Colorado Railroad Museum.