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The Alamosa–Durango line or San Juan extension was a railroad line built by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, following the border between the U.S. states of Colorado and New Mexico, in the Rocky Mountains. The line was originally built as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line between Alamosa, Colorado, and Durango, Colorado.
Engine 473 served frequently on the Chili Line that operated between Antonito, Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico, until the line was abandoned in 1941. 476 and 478 saw an extensive service on the San Juan passenger train, which ran between Durango, Colorado and Alamosa, Colorado until 1951. 473, 476 and 478 operated on the Silverton Branch from ...
Rio Grande and Southwestern Railroad: Lumberton to Gallinas; Farmington Branch: Carbon Junction to Farmington; Silverton Branch: Durango to Silverton; Moffat Line: Denver (Union Station) to Dotsero (Tennessee Pass Line) via Moffat Tunnel. Corona Line: Newcomb to Vasquez (old line over Corona Pass; abandoned when Moffat Tunnel opened)
Just like Stevie Nicks did in 1973, my mother, too, embarked upon a journey to Colorado 50 years ago. While she wasn’t traveling to Aspen, she did ride a steam train from Durango to Silverton ...
The San Juan Express (also known as simply the San Juan) was a narrow gauge train that ran on the 3 feet (0.91 m) Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) route from Durango, Colorado via Chama, New Mexico; Cumbres Pass; and Antonito, Colorado to Alamosa, Colorado. The train ran from February 11, 1937 until January 31, 1951 as train ...
The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad (formerly the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad) is a class III railroad operating in south-central Colorado.It runs on 154 miles (248 km) of former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on three lines radiating from Alamosa and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad in Walsenburg.
The railroad line was built in the early 1880s by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as part of its San Juan Extension from Alamosa to Durango, Colorado.The railroad has a steep (for a railroad) 4% grade approaching from the west, so additional helper locomotives were usually run (and often still are) on trains from Chama, New Mexico to Cumbres Pass.
The town's scenic 3 ft (0.91 m) narrow-gauge railroad, originally built by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (later renamed the Denver and Rio Grande Western or D&RGW) primarily to haul ore to Durango, became popular as a tourist attraction, and this traffic increased after World War II when the line was featured in several popular western ...
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