Heritage route
Durango & Silverton
Durango → Silverton · United States
Durango & Silverton in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 72 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 21 km/h
- Top speed
- 29 km/h
- Train
- Coal-fired K-36 steam
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 1882
- Highest point
- 2,836 m
- Riders per year
- ≈ 200k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
1882 gold-rush narrow gauge: steam-hauled ever since, on the Highline ledge blasted 120 m above the Animas River gorge.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1835092 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Durango & Silverton — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
More heritage routes
- La Trochita
Theroux’s Old Patagonian Express: 750 mm gauge, 1922 steam locomotives and wood-stove-heated wooden coaches across the steppe.
Wikipedia ↗ - Sagano Scenic Railway
A retired JR alignment above the Hozugawa rapids: twenty-five slow minutes of maples and gorge that the modern main line skips through tunnels.
Wikipedia ↗ - SL Gunma
Restored D51 498 “Degoichi” and C61 20 haul retro coaches up the Joetsu Line on weekends: steam echoing off the Tone gorge under Tanigawa’s wall.
Wikipedia (JA) ↗ - Lézard Rouge
The Bey of Tunis’s 1910 saloon cars, freshly restored: creeping into the Selja gorge’s ochre cliffs, photo stops included, in phosphate country.
Wikipedia ↗
More train routes in United States.