Durango-Silverton Railroad

The trip cost a lot of money, but people, it was worth every penny. We are only going to do this adventure once, so we might as well enjoy every minute of it. The train left Durango at 9 am, so we had to get up early, since we are about 40 miles south of Durango.

We booked two seats on a train car with a glass roof and it was well worth it. The next 3 1/2 hours we got to see some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen. I took 165 pictures and there is no way to post them all on this website. Doug is working on creating a website on "webshots" and we will post a lot more pictures there. There will be a link from this website to the picture website.



The river followed us all the way up to Silverton, and as we started climbing it got colder and we got to see snow very close up.


We spend a couple of hours in Silverton, which is a lot smaller than I remembered and it was enough time to check it out.


We had a great day and if there was anything I would do different next time, we would take the bus back down to Durango. As much as I love to ride the train, every bone in my body was well shaken by the time we got back to the train station.