Having spent most of my youth in the Midwest and later settling in Colorado, I have always had a great interest in the old west. It was perhaps the railroads that intrigued me the most. I spent many off-work hours visiting old town sites and areas where trains had once run. Such visits gave me some sense of that time period. I would sit and imagine what life was like back then. Following retirement, I decided to put these images on paper. Thus, Iron Rails West was created.