Durango-Silverton RR...
My bride and I just returned from a 4 day 3 night trip to Durango Colorado to celebrate our 53 anniversary. We left the Class C at home and made the 371 mile run from our home in Payson AZ in our Hon...
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Congrats, Desert Captain, on the 53 years!
I have done the Durango narrow gauge twice- once in 1975 as a ten year- old and again about a dozen years ago.
My father built a Glen-L travel trailer back in NJ where I grew up. We trekked across the US a few times in it and one time bought us the the Durango area on an excursion down to the Grand Canyon that year. We stayed just to the north of town along side of the river at the local campground... I thought it was the neatest thing to see "our" camper from the train as we headed out.
One thing that really sticks out to me was the coal dust in my hair at the end of the trip from the particles that fell from the stack waff as we traveled.
It is a must- do bucket list item for any train enthusiast.
I have done the Durango narrow gauge twice- once in 1975 as a ten year- old and again about a dozen years ago.
My father built a Glen-L travel trailer back in NJ where I grew up. We trekked across the US a few times in it and one time bought us the the Durango area on an excursion down to the Grand Canyon that year. We stayed just to the north of town along side of the river at the local campground... I thought it was the neatest thing to see "our" camper from the train as we headed out.
One thing that really sticks out to me was the coal dust in my hair at the end of the trip from the particles that fell from the stack waff as we traveled.
It is a must- do bucket list item for any train enthusiast.
