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The railroad purchased some of the property around the depot, cleaned up the block extending north to Sixth Street and facilitated the opening of gift shops and other tourist-friendly businesses. As ridership continued to grow, the D&RGW operated a second train to Silverton on certain days. [15]
Running along 45 miles of track between Durango and Silverton, in Colorado, passengers on Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad are treated to scenery that hasn't changed substantially since ...
None were issued in 1891, but the 1892 passes good on both Mear's Silverton and Rio Grande Southern Railroads were of silver filigree, and three were made of gold. [2] The Silverton Railroad was the first of several railroad projects by Otto Mears, the famed "Pathfinder of the San Juans". Construction of the line began in 1887 and reached Burro ...
A pair of steam locomotives on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the Colorado Rockies. The Roger E. Broggie locomotive pulling its open-air sightseeing coaches on the Walt Disney World Railroad. Preserved train cars of the defunct Oahu Railway and Land Company (note the dual gauge track underneath them).
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.
Sales from the Durango Trust skyrocketed by the completion of the D&RG's Silverton Branch, and by 1885, Durango's business district had seven hotels and restaurants, eleven saloons, dance halls and stores, two bakeries and blacksmith shops, and a variety of other businesses, also boosting the town of Silverton's population to 2,000 at the time. [8]
Shannon Parker and Stetson Tyler were travelling on the Narrow Gauge train ride from Durango to Silverton and were “looking for elk” when they spotted movement on the mountainside.
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad; M. Midland Terminal Railroad Roundhouse This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 11:03 (UTC). ...