Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself…
We arrived September 23rd and while the wife gets settled into the hotel I walk down to the Durango&Silverton yard to take some initial video.
Watch & Listen to #482 pull into Durango Station
Durango & Silverton; Video Clip#1 (15 Sec.)
Description : D&S#482 arriving back at Durango, CO
Location : Durango, Colorado
Here is the complete train via video frame clips
K-36 Steam Engine #482, Built 1925
Coach #213 (Home Ranch)
Coach #631 (North Star)
Coach #630 (Hunt)
The next 4 passenger cars in the train
Open Gondola #400
Concession #64
Coach #332 (La Plata)
Coach #632 (Teft)
…and the last four cars; includng Cinco Animas Parlor car
Coach #270 (Pinkerton)
Coach #331 (Trimble)
Open Gondola
B-2 Business Car (Cinco Animas)
What in the world in the Durangon & Silverton doing by placing a box car to ruin the view of the first class passengers in the business (observation) car at the rear of the train. The D&RGW always put the box car (to handle our luggage and occasionally lunch provisions) right behind the locomotive. If I had paid extra fare to ride the rear car I would have registered a very strong complaint.
I know what you mean and I have no idea why that train was carrying the boxcar on the rear like that. [:S]