On the train, we decided to have lunch at Natalia's 1912 Restaurant and I had a footlong hot dog. Afterwards, Chris Parker and I visited a store as he needed another memory card for his camera.
The main road in Silverton.
The second train of the day arrived with "Silver Vista" in its consist.
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Silverton station built in 1888.
The station and grounds are the Silverton Freight Yard Museum.
Just north of the station is where the Durango & Silverton Railroad track inspector speeders tie up between their trips behind each run. Safety first is Rule Number 1 on every railroad I travel.
Denver and Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 493 built by Baldwin in 1928.
Denver and Rio Grand Western bunk car 04466 built by the railroad and Ohio Falls from boxcar 4466 in 1895.
A former Denver and Rio Grande Western gondola and flat car.
Denver and Rio Grande Wester K-37 493 was on a freight train.
Denver and Rio Grande Western stock car 5227, built by American Car and Foundry in 1904, lettered for Texas and Pacific Railroad.
Denver and Rio Grande Western box car 3543 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Denver and Rio Grande Western truckless box car 3097 built by American Car and Foundry in 1904.
Box cars and stock cars. Now we will enter the Silverton station museum.
A displays case of railroad ephemera.
Spike hammer and other items.
A fantastic display of rocks and minerals.
A baggage cart in the former baggage room.
Many interesting displays.
A small model railroad diorama under construction.
Map of the San Juan National Forest.
Another case of minerals.
More displays.
A pot belly stove, after which I returned outside.
The second train now made its way to the wye and would remain there until after we departed. Our train, currently at the wye, would reverse into the street where it dropped us all off.
Our train reversed into the loading area.
Looking up the valley.
The view of the Silverton station and Freight Yard Museum.
The Casey Jones, a home-built railbus built by the Silverton Northern Railroad mainly to provide the doctor in Silverton transportation up the line to where he was needed in cases of illness and accident when miners or their families or others along the line could not get through down to Silverton. Another use of it was to transport miners and others into Silverton and back up the line on an irregular basis.
Chris and I walked back to the curve to catch the third train arriving.
Denver and Rio Grande Western caboose 01511 built by International Car in 1966.
Santa Fe caboose 999001 built by American Car and Foundry in 1930. What do these two cabooses make? Somebody's unique home.
Our engine and train ready to take us back to Durango.
The third train was a double-header and looked great as it arrived.
The third train unloading.
Our train was awaiting its passengers. I went to a store for postcards and bought an ice cream cone before reboarding the open car, which was not packed as it was on the journey to Silverton.
The train departed on time and we took the first of the many curves back to Durango.
