Monday, August 24, 2009

The Durango Silverton train

Riding the train was a fun experience with great scenery along the way. We left Durango at 8:15 in the morning. It was chilly and occasionally rainy as the train worked its way up the canyon toward Silverton, an all-morning trip. Since we had chosen the open-sided car we came prepared with jackets and raingear. The snack car was the next car up the line and had plenty of hot coffee and chai available in ever-refillable souvenir cups.

The train stopped several times along the way, to pick up passengers and to refill the water tanks and blow off steam. Here are some train pictures. It's hard to get good pictures with all the rocking and moving but we got lucky now and then. Somebody wondered if the red cars were a different train. Actually the front cars were yellow, the back ones were red. We had only one yellow car behind us so whenever we looked up front we saw yellow cars and whenever we photographed back we saw red cars. The red cars were plushier.




4 comments:

Jessica said...

why are the cars yellow in some pictures and red in the others? is that a different train?

Jetti said...

The front of the train had the less expensive cars - the regular cars and open ones like we rode in. The back 3 cars were the expensive cars with upholstered seats and white tablecloths and waiters and they cost twice as much to ride in. They were red - ours were yellow cars. So the train was yellow in front, red on the end.

Jetti said...
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Jetti said...

I looked through the pictures - there were actually four red cars behind us on this train.

 
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