September 1970, almost cost Silverton its railroad. A cloud hung over Silverton for a couple of days, and dropped hundreds of billions of gallons of rain water on the Town. Silverton, wasn’t harmed, but the water went into the Animas, and a gigantic flood resulted, which took out literally, miles of narrow-gauge track.
As an example, mile post 472, which is the Tacoma power plan...
