The Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad started the summer season of 2025 with two steam engine trains on Saturday, May 3rd, which was also the birthday of the narrow- gauge rail system of the San Juans founder, Otto Mears. Otto Mears was born on May 3rd, 1840, in Russia, and died at the ripe old age of ninety-one on June 24th, 1931, in Pasadena, California.
The first train that arrived 10 minu…
