For 144 years now, residents of Silverton and Durango have been attuned to the sound of the whistle from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad coming down the Animas Valley or Canyon.
What most people don’t know is that Durango was actually founded as a rail town by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway in 1879, specifically to haul ore and supplies for the mines in Silverton, where some …
