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The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies is a collection of mountain and plains railroads that includes:

(1) The original St. Francis Railroad was founded in the middle 1800s primarily as a steam locomotive freighter serving short-haul mountain customers on the western slopes of Colorado and into Denver and offering limited passenger service in a single outfitted car. Formed in 1853 the St. Francis railroad eventually expanded into mining and diesel freight culminating in its centennial year in 1953 with the launching of a modern deluxe passenger line;

(2) An extension of the original passenger car, the Zebra-Deer Passenger Railways, which formed shortly after the St. Francis freight service, carried passengers, packages, and mail to several higher-elevation mountain towns, including several mining towns;

(3) The Cabin Creek Road Mining Company, originally known as the Rocky Trail Mining Company, was a natural response to the opportunity presented by the mining districts served by Zebra-Deer as the parent company ventured into ownership of its own mines, focusing on gold and silver exploration in the high plains and mountain regions of Colorado using the parent company's existing track to transport mining products to the market;

(4) DNM Freight, a post-war addition to the St. Francis Consolidated Railroad family of companies, is a modern long-haul freighter service running modern diesel motive power from the mountains and Front Range to parts as far east as Chicago;

and, lastly, (5) the Omaha, Denver, & Chasm Lake, a deluxe extension of the original steam mountain passenger railway, formed in 1953 and outfitted by the St. Francis Railroad with modern Alco diesel power and heavyweight passenger cars to expand service from the mountains into the eastern plains of Colorado and into Nebraska as far as Omaha.

When Cabin Creel Road was formed out of the original mining operation, St. Francis Railroad issue stock for capita stock in the amount of $800,000 in one-dollar shares and $25,000 in one-hundred dollar shares for capital improvements including opening the new mine and in new equipment:

        


Here are the original colored heralds from the time period immediately after the original freight service expanded to include a passenger service and mining operations:

         


Here are a few of the colored heralds of the parent railroad and its subsidiaries. The main heralds without the subsidiaries are the heralds based on the original St. Francis Railroad heralds from the mid-1800s:

         




And here are a few of the parent company/subsidiary colored heralds:

         




These are a few black and white heralds for the parent railroad and its subsidiaries, used on locomotives and rolling stock and wherever colored heralds are either not needed or possible under the circumstances:

         




And here are a few of the parent company/subsidiary black and white heralds:

         




The following are the heralds from the first passenger services:

      

      

      


The first mining venture was called Rocky Trails, later abbreviated to Rock Trail:

      

      

      


Once the mining operations headquarters moved to Cabin Creek Road off Hwy. 7, the Roosevelt National Forest access road, at the base of Mount Meeker and Longs Peak, the mining company was renamed:

      

      

      




These are the heralds of the St. Francis DNM Freight company:

      

             








And finally some of the heralds of the new (1953) deluxe passenger service to Omaha, Denver, and Chasm Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park:

      



      







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