Riding a Narrow Gauge Train
September 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Today, Craig and I rode the narrow gauge steam engine train from Durango, Colorado, to Silverton. What a grand adventure!! Here are a few pictures. I didn’t get any where we were on a narrow cliff hundreds of feet above the floor of the canyon. I just couldn’t look out the window to take a picture. Craig took some great ones, though. When we get back home and he downloads them from his camera, I’ll get a copy and post them here.
The train:
The car we rode in:
How close we were to the canyon wall at times:
Train depot benches in the train museum:
My favorite car in the museum — a caboose:
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September 28th, 2009 2:35 pm
How fun! We used to ride the train at Durango, we used to go there a lot and visit the honey place. Nice pics of the train
September 29th, 2009 6:43 pm
Where’s the honey place? I think we missed seeing that. No, I KNOW we didn’t see it . . .
September 29th, 2009 7:22 pm
I think it’s called Honeyville and it might me just a bit out of the actual town. I remember they had a hive with a tube in the middle of the store where the bees would fly into the store (contained by the tube) and I loved to watch them in their hive. Never cared much for the honey though, much to sweet for me
October 2nd, 2009 10:12 am
We rode that train last year, we rode both ways, way too long! If anyone asks, I would ride up in the cool of the morning, if it is summer, and then take the shuttle back to Durango . If you go with another couple, buy the round trip and have them drive a car one way and meet you and you drive the car the other way. I loved that when we arrived back in town the locals wave and are glad you are spending tourist dollars in their town. We had delux accomadations in what we fondly refer to as the “Bates Motel”! From there we went to Mes Verde, Monument Valley and then took a scary shortcut up the face of a mesa to get back into Utah. Good road trip though.
October 2nd, 2009 3:39 pm
Denise,
I, too, was impressed that folks would wave at the train!
Deluxe accommodations at the Bates Motel??? That’s FAR worse than what we stayed in . . .