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Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation. Hardcover. New. Hundreds of thousands of visitors have ridden Cumbres & Toltec trains during its 35 years of operation. Shot between 1999 and 2006, the photographs in this book are what their experience looked like from trackside. Some of the pictures are from well beyond trackside, including a series of remarkable photographs shot from a jet helicopter at the height of the 2006 fall foliage season in the San Juan mountains. Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation, hardcover with jacket, 176 pages, standard landscape book 10 x 8 in., Color photographs and captions.

Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation. Hardcover. New. For almost 130 years the shrill whistles of steam locomotives have echoed off the steep walls of Southwestern Colorado's beautiful Animas River valley. Railroads first came to this remote region in the decade of the 1880s, in search of gold and silver. Colorado had just achieved statehood, and the rush was on to exploit the new territory to the fullest. Durango became the center of this booming mining district, and after pausing there briefly, the Denver & Rio Grande pushed its rails 45 miles up the Animas valley to Silverton. The line, then called the Silverton Branch, was a marvel of 19th-century civil engineering. Today it operates as the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and it is no less a marvel. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge is also a priceless and nearly perfectly preserved example of living history. Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors come to Durango to ride the trains-still powered by superbly maintained steam… Read More

Narrow Gauge Preservation Foundation. Hardcover. New. It was the great age of railroad expansion in the American west. In 1879 the Denver & Rio Grande Railway began building its San Juan Extension. The rails pushed west from Alamosa, Colorado, heading for the rich mining districts of the San Juan Mountains. The goal was Silverton, Colorado, and in all, the route would total 245 miles. D&RG's successor, the Denver & Rio Grande Western, ran this route until 1968. Two segments of the line were saved to be operated as historic railroad experiences. The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad operates from Antonito, Colorado, to Chama, New Mexico, and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad runs trains between the Colorado towns of its name. The photographs in this book, shot in the 21st Century, document the trains that run over these two segments. The C&TS over 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass and the D&S through the deep Animas River Gorge to fabled Silverton, Colorado. Join photographer Sam Furukawa and head… Read More