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SPONSOR LISTINGS
Visit the official site for the Durango & Silverton Railroad
or call 877-872-4607
Bar D Chuckwagon
970.247.5753 - 888.800.5753
Great Western stage show and delicious barbeque supper. Open nightly Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Reservations required.
Boot Barn
830 S. Camino Del Rio,
Durango 970-247-7720 www.bootbarn.com
While you're in Colorado, skip the souvenir shops. Instead, take home the real - the Wild - the west from Boot Barn.This is where cowboys find everything you want incouding shirts, jeans, hats and accessories.
Soaring Tree Top Adventures
970-769-2357
www.soaringcolorado.com
Tree Top Adventures, the largest, safest zipline tour available anywhere, has just gotten larger. In 2011, three new spans will open to the public, making a total of 27 ziplines in the ecofriendly course.
Grumpy's Restaurant & Saloon
at The Grand Imperial Hotel
1219 Greene St., Silverton 81433
1-800-341-3340 • www.grandimperialhotel.com
World-famous French Onion soup. Live honky tonk piano. Featured in John Feilder's "Best of Colorado." Open year-round. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Full bar with microbrews on tap. Located at the Grand Imperial Hotel.
Natalia's Family Restaurant
970.387.5300 - Silverton
Just 60 feet from where the train stops! Affordable family dining, serving hot American, Italian, and Mexican favorites.
Strater Hotel
699 Main Ave. - Durango
970.247.4431
Get on board and experience the charm, history and excitement.
Inside the Strater:
Mahogany Grille
Henry Strater Theater
The Jewelry Works
965 Main Ave - Durangp
970.247.3173
Creators of custom one-of-a-kind jewelry.
Southern Ute
Cultural Center & Museum
www.southernutemuseum.com
Come Live Our Story. Opening June 2011
Stay the Trail
www.staythetrail.org
The mission of Stay The Trail Colorado is to encourage the responsible use of the roads and trails that are open to motorized recreation in Colorado. Stay The Trail Colorado is a program of the Responsible Recreation Foundation. Looking for resources and information aout the use of off-highway vehicles? visit Stay The Trail for maps and up-todate information. |
All Aboard! The Durango & Silverton Railroad Guide
Experience The Railroads Colorful History -
In the D&SNGRR Museum
by Greg Picard & Andrea Seid
 A ride on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is spectacular in itself, but a visit to the museum is the perfect way to complete your experience. The 12,000-square-foot museum houses an impressive variety of exhibits, including an 800-square-foot HO & HOn3 scale model railroad depicting the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as it would operate in the 1950's; a large library selection of railroad history books; exhibit cases with a large selection of railroad tool displays, photographs; paintings; lanterns, locks and  keys; steam locomotives, vintage railroad cars and a 1916 American La France fire engine.Adults and kids alike will enjoy the chance to explore the cab of a locomotive, see the view fromthe fireman and engineer's seats, and handle the levers and gauges they have only seen from afar.A luggage car built as a prop for the movie "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" is now a movie theatre showing videos on the railroad's history and also on the maintenance and reconstruction of a steam locomotive.
The museum was created in 1998 by utilizing a portion of an engine storage facility, which had been built after the roundhouse fire in 1989 as an eight-stall addition to the roundhouse. When current railroad owners, Allen and Carol Harper, bought the railroad, the museum was set up with exhibits and staffed to allow a real museum experience. In addition to the D&SNG museum, a small satellite museum operates in the Silverton Depot with its exhibits focused on the mining industry in Silverton and the Denver & Rio Grande's and Otto Mear's three railroads out of Silvertonserving those mines. |
