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Train entering Silverton Photo of the first trip of the "Painted Train" The D&RG Silverton arrives, pulling the glass-topped "Silver Vista" observation car in 1947.. William Jackson Palmer (1836–1908) was a former Union General (serving in the American Civil War) who came to Colorado after managing the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway into Denver in 1870.
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad operates out of its original 1882 depot in Durango, Colorado. From Nov. 19 through May 5, it embarks on a 26-mile winter wonderland journey to Cascade ...
Preserved segments of the final Rio Grande narrow gauge lines, the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad; operate to the present day. Other major narrow-gauge railroads in Colorado included the Rio Grande Southern , the Denver, South Park and Pacific , the Colorado Central , and the Florence and ...
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.
The C&TSRR is one of only two remaining parts of the former D&RGW narrow-gauge network, the other being the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG), which runs between the communities of Durango and Silverton, Colorado. The railroad has a total of ten narrow-gauge steam locomotives (five of which are operational) and two narrow ...
Silverton, Gladstone and Northerly Railroad: 1899 1915 Silverton Northern Railroad: Silverton Northern Railroad: 1895 1941 N/A South Park and Leadville Short Line Railroad: 1885 1900 N/A Southern San Luis Valley Railroad: SSLV 1953 1996 N/A State Line and Denver Railway: DRGW: 1889 1889 Rio Grande Western Railway: Trinidad Railway: TRIN 1992 ...
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 ...
Durango Blues Train is a blues genre live music event in Durango, Colorado on a train on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. It takes place annually over two weekends at the end of the summer.