Tag: durango silverton narrow guage
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On the right track: Married firefighter and train engineer work together to save stranded hiker
Kylah and Nick Breeden of Durango fell in love working on the railroad and Monday turned out to be a live-long day. The newlyweds don’t always work together, but on one of the final weeks of the summer season, Kylah, a locomotive fireman and Nick, a train engineer, were assigned to the second shift hauling…
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Newlywed train conductor and firefighter save stranded hiker in Colorado
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The historic Durango sightseeing steam train became the little engine that could Monday. The passenger train was on a mission when it went huffing and puffing down a winding San Juan Mountain narrow gauge track to save a hiker with a broken leg who was lying in pain — cold and hungry on the banks…