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The D&SNG runs 45.2 miles between Durango and Silverton Colorado. This railroad has been federally designated as a National Historic Landmark and also designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This route opened in 1882 to transport silver and gold ore that was mined in the San Juan […]