Saving the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad

"An historic railroad would be the attraction...that would bring tourists and a measure of prosperity to these more remote, mountain areas."

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad has operated for more than three decades as a tourist ride over the breathtaking Cumbres Pass, ten thousand feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains. The sixty-four miles of the former San Juan Extension of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway were saved twice by volunteers from the railroad graveyard. In 1970,...