October 26, 2018 10:39AM
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Sharrod Wrote:
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> Why would CDOT be paying for the loop? The highway
> came a few years later, and the highway does not
> appear to consume any required Silverton operation
> track.
CDOT had plans for a bypass around downtown Durango for many years - starting in the early 1960's. The first piece was the section from US 160 coming in from the west and going north to Main Ave. I forget it's name now - "Camino Del Rio" or something like that. Getting the Grande to rebuild the loop was the next part. The Grande owned all that property and was willing to part with it after it was a certainty that the mainline south out of the yard could be abandoned. As it was, CDOT had to reroute the Animas River below the RR's new loop and haul a bunch of fill in to build the road around the edge of the RR's new loop.
Looking at the pic from up on Smelter Mountain, I would date it around 1970. In 1970, the western few stalls of the roundhouse were torn down, along with the boiler house. "Garden Tracks" were laid in the spot and 481 and 497 were spotted there.
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