Need to check out the royal gorge train in Canon City, Colorado

Guys good presentation, however you left out the one single thing that saved the railroad when the Denver & Rio Grande wanted to abandon it... HOLLYWOOD! If it wasn't for movies like BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID and numerous others starting in the late 1940's, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad wouldn't have the great free-advertising that attracted tourists from all over the world. Later on it was social media like KZfaq that really showed off America's most scenic railroad in all its glory in all times of weather. I produced a 2hr. HOLLYWOOD salute to the DSNGR in 2022.

Agreed, great people, great content, great views, everything about this is great lol i love sitting down eating dinner while watching some DownieLive.

heck yeah, if I was to nominate any YT channel for YT awards it would definitely be DownieLive.

Totally agreed ive been binge watching and oopsie it's suddenly 5am! Lol good thing it's Sunday morning. I wish i would have waited one more week now i have to wait a week for the last episode!!! Dang it

Totally agreed

Agreed I’ve been watching this for the past few hours

Oh what a wonderful thing! My great great grandfather worked on the train that went from Springville to Big Rock Candy Mountain in Marysvale Utah. He was also the coal-stoker. He was 13yrs old! Every generation til the last one has worked in the railroad at Springville Utah. It is such an important hub..or exchange as they call it . I didnt grow up there. Me , I just inherited their love for trains. You are so lucky!🤩

The train engineer of this train said the only difference between this train and the other train he usually operates, is that the other train runs on coal. Does that mean they stoke this one with small logs of wood that is burned to heat the water into steam to drive the locomotive? I love that idea, because train guys could go out in woods to chop up dead fallen trees if they needed to, and this train could operate even if there was a Carrington level CME: Coronal Mass Ejection and no trucks could get gas to deliver coal, oil or gas because the entire electric grid might be down, but this wonderful locomotive could operate fine! And the whole train is beautiful, too! It's wonderful!

@@valerieann8007 so up until a few years ago both the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and the railroad the fireman in the video mentioned (the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad) burned coal in their steam locomotives. But since 2019 the D&S has been converting its fleet to burn recycled oil rather than coal. There are many reason for this conversion that I won’t get into here, but even the C&TS converted one of their engines to burn oil as well. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what you burn, as long as the water boils and you get steam that’s all that counts. Some early locomotives burned wood as you suggested but wood isn’t a prime choice of fuel for these large steam locomotives.

Let me ruin the comments of big bois

I'm curious why it didn't go into Silverton? Is it the off-season or do they offer a shorter ride that I didn't know about?

😂.... Hihihi... Yes that's right... 🚂

Sign me the heck up 👌

I have a colleague whose house is a train

@@philiplong3131 omg I’d love to meet him or her and see their house!

I like trains.

LITERALLY what I was going to post! His smile and the joy on his face is like pure sunshine.

Will is just such a big bundle of joy!

He just exudes happiness! 😁

But they do get a lot of tourists in town and you never know when someone is visiting from Florida. :)

@@andrewellis158 time to saw off Florida from the rest of the continent haha

Right, buddy!

Check out Mike's series of travelling on trains across Canada in between episodes in this series. It's just as good!

@@iancanuckistan2244 can u tag me there?

@@robpittstop1797 Here's the first episode, they go from the east coast to the west: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pK-Jlr2q0Ju4pJ8.html&ab_channel=DownieLive

@@robpittstop1797 if look up downie live across canada using the youtube search the first video is the first episode!

I too got to ride this train from Silverton to Durango back in June 2017! It was awesome!

They won’t die and will never die, they are beautiful machines.

what did 485 look like?

@@JamesCollins764 a lot like the rest of the class I would imagine, just more bent lol. I don't have any links to any pictures of the crash right off hand though, but I'm sure if you look up K-36 485 crash they might show up. K-36 Wikipedia article has pictures of all 10 of them though.

in words of the young generations. He passed the Vibe check.

Couldn't agree more!

I was a little bit older when I first rode it. While I've always lived in California, my parents were from Colorado, and we would go every few years to see all the relatives. One year my grandparents sent my folks money for us to take the train. It was supposed to be train one way, and bus the other way. However, my folks were a little behind on making reservations. We didn't have any when we got to Durango, so we got in the cancellation line early in the morning as the sun was rising. We scored tickets-- round trip on the train! No stinkin' bus! It was summer, so we rode all the way to Silverton. In 2019, my husband and I were again visiting Colorado. He'd never been on the train, so we rode it together, again round trip, to Silverton. I was surprised to see that doing one leg on the bus was more expensive than taking the train both ways! On the other hand, I've driven the Million Dollar Highway over Red Mountain Pass a few times, so now I know the bus trip would be pretty spectacular in its own right. In 2018, we visited the railroad museum in Laws in eastern California. If I remember correctly, one of their steam locomotives was on loan to the Durango & Silverton RR. The next year in Durango, I asked someone about that. They were trying out the locomotive, but the borrowed locomotive had a hard time making the grade. There used to be a narrow gauge railroad from eastern California into Nevada. I don't think it had to cover as steep terrain as that between Durango and Silverton.

Cañon City

I was just about to ask if Mike will go on the Skagway Train. I go on it every time I take a cruise to Alaska.

This Skagway rr is awesome and very scenic thru to lake Bennett then onto Whitehorse Yukon

Will do!

Glad you enjoyed it

We always take the Cumbres & Toltec, as it's a full day ride. Up early for the bus from Chama to Antonito. Then the ride back to Chama. Then a good part of the evening and next day, looking over the yards and equipment. When they started, it was one train north the full route. Then the train would return south the next day. Not like now, where the 2 trains meet for lunch. Then the train was so long, engine and caboose were in one state. The Middle of the train was in the other.

uh, autism sucks, i thought I was special. Sorry, this isn't about me, loved this video and how happy you guys were. Got hyper excited a content provider gave me an upvote. I'll show myself out. Love you!

Yes we do! haha