Re: A Ticket to Howardsville

I saw the other day in the Silverton archives that we have the original elevation book for the proposed Ouray extension of the Silverton Railroad. The hard surveying work is done, so maybe as an alternative to the SN, we'll ask CDOT to vacate U.S. 550 for 99 years to build the extension. Then we can run unit trains of flat cars ferrying the former road traffic between Ouray and Silverton. Instead of the "Rainbow Route," we could call it the Tour of Terror, a name that was actually submitted when the rather bland San Juan Scenic Byway was chosen instead in a naming contest. It is always best to have a back up plan in place.

Fritz