Durango/Silverton line

[Bat]

Comment by Bat 5 minutes ago Delete Comment My only experience of live train travel USA was on the Durango-Silverton track. Following the Los Alamas river up to Silverton was an enchantment to behold. From the ravines to the gaps blasted just big enough for the train to get through was heart stopping. To arrive at our destination Silverton, was an whole new experience again boy, that town history goes back some, Wyatt Earp lived there for a short while. It was the very place that Bat Masterson called on Wyatt before the made way to Dodge City as the "Dodge City Peace Commission" Yes the Durango-Silveton line is well worth the ride

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[Jim Pettengill]

The 79 photo is on the High Line - a really great place to take train photos. You can park at the little trainyard at Rockwood north of Durango and hike in maybe a third of a mile to this location (paying attention to the train schedules of course) and get some great shots from the dramatic rail cuts. Awesome dropoff to the river, too!

[Wolfgang]

I fell in love with the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grand way, . . way back when I was a child looking at the books by Beebe. Never really thought I get to see those fantastic trains running thru the Colorado mountains. But then I was headed west to San Diego from Minneapolis in '72 and headed down thru the mountains from Denver, . . Ouray, Red Mountain Pass, . . and dwon into Silverton . . . . Wow . . what a wonderful place. It was mid september and the trains only ran on the weekends, . . but in Durango I could wander thru the unfenced train yard. In the '80s I got back to ride the train ! Fantastic ! . . and have been back a number of time since. Has to be the best steam train ride anywhere . . . at least in my opinion. Good railroadin' . . . . :)

[Wolfgang]

Hi Silverton Durango fans . . . great news ( for me anyway ). The Durango & Silverton is now offering a pass for unlimited riding. $ 99. I won't get over there this year, . . but I plan on being in Silverton from mid April until late June in 2010 and that sounds GREAT for me :) Information about this on the Durango & Silverton web site.

Good railroadin' . . . . :)