Re: Durango & Silverton Does Green

Michael, I could not agree more with your “let us be thankful the equipment is still here to be seen and photographed” statement. We are very fortunate that so much of the D&RGW equipment still exists today, in regular service, and running on its original right of way.

The Pennsylvania Railroad was once the Standard Railroad of the World; of its entire steam fleet only a 0-6-0 is in operating condition.
Not one of the New York Central’s Hudsons are still in existence, all were scrapped.
The Norfolk & Western, the last large steam-powered American railroad, photographed in its final days by O. Winston Link, has one steam locomotive still running; on four and a half miles of track at Strasburg.
Unlikely a Big Boy will ever be fired again.

The Rio Grande is alive and well in Colorado and New Mexico, at Knott’s Berry Farm and the Huckleberry; for us born to late to still experience.

Matthew