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SPONSOR LISTINGS
Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum
Opening June 2011
Telluride
800.854.3062
Venture back in time and stroll along main street where Butch Cassidy once roamed.
Sky Ute Casino
970.563.7777 - Ignacio
14324 Hwy 172 N
After the train ride, come visit us for all your fun.
Visit the official site for the Durango & Silverton Railroad or call 877-872-4607
Bar D Chuckwagon
970.247.5753 - 888.800.5753
Durango
Great Western stage show and delicious barbeque supper. Open nightly Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Reservations required.
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.
Silver Summit
970-387-0240 - Silverton
Full and half day jeep rentals - ghost towns, waterfalls, wildflowers, wildlife.
Grand Imperial Hotel
800.341.3340 - Silverton
Featured in John Fielder's "Best of Colorado". Live Honky tonk piano. Also Grumpy's Restaurant and Saloon. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. Full bar with local micro-brews. |
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. |
