Allen Nossaman, an important factor in the early days of the Society, outside his office where he was editor and publisher of The Silverton Standard for more than ten years starting in 1963.
In 1964, The Denver & Rio Grande Western Silverton train carried something less than 50,000 riders to Silverton. The number had increased annually after the late 1940s and the Rio Grande, which had been denied their request to abandon the line, as it had much of its narrow gauge operations, began to pay more attention to the summer passenger operations. Even so, they never were very enthusi...
