Re: RGS Depot changes ownership

This is a new development, and more information will be forthcoming in the next couple of weeks, it's just been announced in the past week, and was a surprise to us - I'll try to keep you posted as details become available. Right now there are all sorts of rumors floating around. We at the RR museum will be working with the Ranch History Museum (we have a good working relationship with them) and will probably have some presence at the depot and the neighboring acreage, but it's not clear yet what that presence will be. We'll know soon, we are in discussions talks with them. This is a relationship they have established with the actual purchaser. In any case, people will have access to the depot building sometime before too long (no idea when yet, it's still furnished as a private home), so it's another part of RGS history that will now become accessible at a future date. When people visit our museum, they will be able to go down the street about half a mile and visit the depot and the ranch history exhibits (which are also worth the trip). We're excited.

Sorry, no way to lay significant track to either Dallas to the north or Dallas Divide to the west, it's all private land. The Dallas townsite (on the old D&RG Ouray Branch) is completely gone, and within the boundary of Ridgway State Park.

This has all just become public in the last week, and many details are yet to be resolved. Lots for us to find out and consider. Stay tuned.

Jim Pettengill
Ridgway Railroad Museum