24fps is nice, but it's just not for me. Even 30 looks a bit garbage with this particular video camera. Thanks for the compliment!

It's a Reading 6 chime, owned by a D&S employee.

They stopped running them for the season a couple weeks before I was there.

The D&S bought 4 of the 6 DL-535 C-truck diesels that were deemed surplus by the WP&Y. One is set aside to use for parts, and the other three are in the yard in Durango. Though just bought for yard and miscellaneous work on the road, the P.R. dept on the railroad noticed they were much cheaper to run than the steamers, and so got the road to use them for pulling the 8:15 train to Silverton, and gave a $10 per ticket discount to offset the lesser cost of operation. For a 4-person family (man, wife, 2 kids) that's a savings of $40, which can be a real help to those on a budget. The D&S ran 2 of them on a rotating basis back-to-back for daily excursion trips to Silverton all summer with great success, not the least of which was using their dynamic breaking on downhill grades. They were repainted mustard yellow lower halves and burgundy upper halves, which are the respective colors of the road's passenger cars. The WP&Y still has the final 2 DL-535s and there are rumors the D&S "may" be in negotiations to buy them too. Or not. After some teething problems were worked out and some repairs made to the traction motors and gearboxes, the diesels have been good additions to the operations. One thing for sure, they're used for snow plows in the snow season. If they can push snow in the Yukon, pushing snow in Colorado is not that tough an assignment for them. There are some D&S-themed videos on KZfaq that feature the DL-535s, and they're shown to good effect. One thing: as used by the WP&Y, the diesels had 5-trrumpet horns, and this has been reduced by the D&S to three.

Those were torpedoes, a railroad signaling device which is basically gunpowder wrapped in heavy paper with metal clips attached. These were attached to the rail and would explode when a train ran over them. They were used to warn a crew of a train or other obstruction ahead. The crew would typically answer with two short blasts of the whistle, a signal of acknowledgement.

1950ies, 1957 to be exact.

Quite a few films made use of the stunning landscapes, eg look out for Jack Elam at the end of "Support Your Local Gunfighter"!

Thanks!