Firing Up the Coal for a Colorado Getaway
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The coal-fired train chugs from Silverton to Durango. It takes about three-and-a-half hours to go 45 miles through a fairly remote part of the San Juan mountains.
Adam Burke
The coal-fired train chugs from Silverton to Durango. It takes about three-and-a-half hours to go 45 miles through a fairly remote part of the San Juan mountains.
The Day to Day summer travel series continues with another trip -- this time, however, using a very different kind of fossil fuel.
Adam Burke skips the gasoline and hops on a narrow-gauge, coal-powered train into an isolated canyon near Durango, Colo.
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