My first view of Denver was from a train — the Denver Zephyr, which a group of families had boarded in Chicago one afternoon in the mid-’60s. The kids had commandeered the dome car, where we slept on ...

My first look at Colorado was from a train. When I was a kid, my family was part of a group that would pile onto the Denver Zephyr in Chicago late on a winter afternoon. While the parents sat up all ...