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Topic author - Posts: 12
- Joined: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:41 am
- First Name: danny
- Last Name: castle
- Location: Silverton Colorado
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Topic author - Posts: 12
- Joined: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:41 am
- First Name: danny
- Last Name: castle
- Location: Silverton Colorado
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Topic author - Posts: 12
- Joined: Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:41 am
- First Name: danny
- Last Name: castle
- Location: Silverton Colorado
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Well— i can put up sideways pics anyhows... lol
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Great pix Danny, thanks for showing us. Doesn't look like you'll need that desert water bag in all that snow !
Pix right themselves when I click on them on my machine.
Pix right themselves when I click on them on my machine.
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Danny
I have been to Silverton numerous times...always fun. In the early '60's when the train was a regularly scheduled train of the D&RGW (not a dedicated tourist outfit), you could hang off it, and do the stupidest things and no one would say a thing. The Roundhouse in Durango was just a place to wander through so long as you kept your hands in your pockets...
Anyway, to my point, in the '60's there were at least 5 Model T's languishing in fields...I think permanent population (year round) was in the neighborhood of 25 people or so...times change.
I have been to Silverton numerous times...always fun. In the early '60's when the train was a regularly scheduled train of the D&RGW (not a dedicated tourist outfit), you could hang off it, and do the stupidest things and no one would say a thing. The Roundhouse in Durango was just a place to wander through so long as you kept your hands in your pockets...
Anyway, to my point, in the '60's there were at least 5 Model T's languishing in fields...I think permanent population (year round) was in the neighborhood of 25 people or so...times change.
Scott Conger
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When your picture shows up sideways in Preview, delete it. Then rotate the original 90º, and then back to right side up. When you post it again it should be right. At least that works for me.
I've reached the age when everything reminds me of something else, usually from long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY-63KHQSdc
I've reached the age when everything reminds me of something else, usually from long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY-63KHQSdc
The inevitable often happens.
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We rode the Silverton train in 1962. Our tickets were “standing room only”. We sat on the open platform at the end of the coach. These were the best seats on the train as it turned out.
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Big Boy! Maybe I should go see it when it passes through Nebraska.
The inevitable often happens.
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It was well worth going to see. UP is very professional and the locomotive is well restored. We saw it in Altoona, WI and went through the UP Experience Car. In May 2019 it ran for the first time in 61 years to the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike with the UP 844.
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I had a posting of the 4014. It was moved to the OT section.
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Scott, I also rode the train to Silverton in the very early 60s and remember dropping a rock from the passenger car step straight down to the bottom of the gorge hundreds of feet below. They must have built that stretch on a goat path! Cheers, Bill
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I tell ya whats fun with the train.... dress up like bandits with plastic guns and chase the trains as they come into town... acting like a robbery is happening... great fun.. I race along side the train acting like a bandit... great fun...
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Avalanche debris alondside road.... the amount of avalanche debris piles is amazing
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I too rode the Durango and Silverton when it was owned by the D&RGW railroad. It is a trip that every railfan should have on his/her bucket list.