Yes. I rode this train in 2005. Bought the Parlor car when it was about 90 bucks. Round trip. Got video. Lots. Each time i watch it.....it's breathtaking. Your right....once in a lifetime. Enjoy!
That is a terrific ride! When we were there, I took a tour they had of their steam shop and their car shop. From the questions I was asking, they knew that I knew a lot about the steam locomotive and they took me on a nice private supplemental tour of an engine upon which they were working at the time. I got to go into the smoke box and the fire box and see them bead over the ends to seal the tubes, etcetera. In your video here, it sounds like 480 is having some valve timing issues. They showed me how they do that also. For me, that was the most wonderful trip, ever! Thank you for helping me reminisce!! You got me excited all over again!!
They are nice people and a great shop. I hear people bad mouth Durango for no access to the shop. Really? Yes, they charge to take a tour. No wandering around like at some shops. But this is better. Because they are there telling you what’s going on and as you say when they know you have interest in their work, they are so great about walking you through it. Showing everything.
@@ToyManTelevision -- Regardless of what you do, somebody will complain! No act of kindness will go unpunished, don't you know! D&SNGRR is taking someone out of a productive job to give a tour to some ungrateful tourists and they complain because it taps their wallet a little. Oh boohoo. Go to the washroom and cry your eyes out while the rest of us enjoy the tour!! I am sorry, but I have no patience nor compassion for chronic complainers! MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN IT!! I am sure you see a lot of that chronic complaining too, through your UA-cam channel. At least you can block the constant whiners there.
What a beautiful line, Lovely yellow coaches, so cheerful! One day when I travel around the world to the best tourist steam railways I be sure to add Durango and Silverton to my list!
What a fun trip! If you wasn't a train enthusiast... THIS would change your mind! Beautiful scenery.. Mountain splendor... I enjoyed every minute! Durango & Silverton... Simply breathtaking!! 😃
Nice very nice. That scenery is spectacular and steam just makes the scene perfect!!! John Allen's famous Gorre & Depheited model railroad obviously got inspiration from this region.
@@ToyManTelevision I really enjoyed the stuff on Otto Mear. I'd love to see more about him and his railroads. Great stuff incredible scenery too. As the old saying goes "glorious scenery is the nightmare for any railway engineer" obviously it didn't scare him off!
By the looks of the orange water, you must have went on it shortly after the mine spill. What a mess that was. Love the video, I just moved out of Colorado and I miss it.
Great video, Dale! Great photography and great music, too! (I can tell you have a favorite there!). I've got to go there. I knew Leo Campbell well (of Campbell Scale Models). I had my furniture shop in his shop. He lent me space. But I never made it to Durango when he moved there. I'd call him now and then but he died before I got there. Now Durango is like Beverly Hills I hear.
I lied. I was there. In late 1966 I was in college in Flagstaff and some of us went to Durango to ski. We stopped by the roundhouse but everything was closed up. It almost looked abandoned. Nothing of interest could be seen, and no one but me gave a hoot. I'll be back, I said.
66 Was a bad time there. The D and RG was TRYING to close it down, trying to make people go away. I have 40 minutes of video wit Robert Richardson who explained it. Amazing story. 66 was the worst.
Greg Smith The San Juan extension one was abandoned in 1968 and fortunately Durango to Silverton were saved. And at the last minute Cumbre's and toltec was saved as well. Denver and Rio Grande kept ownership of Durango to Silverton but very soon sold it to a private investor name to Bradshaw really turned a line around
No screwing around on this video, well down. Like the tour of the round house and shops. Sidebar story. / My wife is from Ouray, Colorado. Just north, over the million dollar highway. • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway, “ A Toy Train Layout” 🚂
+longrider42 *I presume ye refer to:* *THE SILVERTON / C. W. McCALL* (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer album 5008, Track A2) (William D. Fries Jr.) American Gramaphone, SESAC This Song would have been ideal for an ad campaign for Silverton Branch passenger service on the D&RGW.
I think he meant The Gallopin' Goose by C.W. McCall. Cool tune played the video. got it stuck in my head. Now I've got this weeks video on operations stuck in my head.
Did you hear that not that long ago the Animas river there was turned almost completely yellow? There was an accident in an old abandoned mine up in Silverton, where some workers were doing some stuff, and there was a spill. I could see that there were a few spots of yellow still in the river from the video.
The diesels they have can't pull a train up the grade. Great for switching. They are looking for several road engines to do that with. But many fans are against it thinking they will stop running steam. D and S says, no, jus when the fire danger is high. Never again will we be the cause of a major fire. SO, D and S will shut down and cancel all trips when the fire danger is high, OR buy 5 or 6 diesel road engines. Im in favor of the diesels. I doubt they would ever stop steam as thats what people com to see. BUT Grand canyon did.... so?
@@ToyManTelevision that's kinda funny the Steam Engines can pull more then the engines that replaced them, and your right people keeped going to the Grand Canyon Railroad even with diesels, same with steamtown pennsylvania my home state they only have 1 steam and that's a switcher for the Baldwin Locomotive Works when they were in business by the way great work on the channel
hey I love your channel as you can see I have a southern pacific daylight ho scale steam engine wich in Portland Oregon, they have the same steam engine that you can ride. this year it's pulling the Christmas express. you should go there some time
What a marvelous look at Durango and Silverton Railroad! Amen, what a place!!! With a tour of the shops and museum, and a ride to Silverton! Thank you very much! :-) C.W. McCall - The Silverton watch?v=U2VbX-DbLrY
Smart Sound. Love their music and software. A few, very few pieces are just me and my keyboard and instrument samples. ua-cam.com/video/Rf8JBYp1HsE/v-deo.html is one of those. But most is from: www.smartsound.com/
Hello MR. TOYMAN and Wife ,I recently subscribed and if I could afford it I would go to all the neat places that you go to. I am planning on updating my youtube channel and show everybody out there what I have been up to. I am a avid N-Scaler but love all scales too. I am also a scenery fanatic and scratch builder. I'm 58 been into nscale for 44 years and HO is where I started. btw cant find the blue button you keep talking about. keep having fun screwing up I mean screwing around.
+mrmartyman7 Button should pop in on the UA-cam channel. Was once in the upper right, then YT moved it to lower right. May not pop in on some browsers? It up the whole tim on most phone apps. But may not eve come it at all on some. There was a time when doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result was the sign of being nuts. Now it's just the way computers work.
+nate chapman The Great Smokey Mountains. We have the Great Salt Lake. Which smells like rotten eggs.. Smokey Mountains that smell like coal smoke, BETTER!
They are from the Whistle Stop on the Verdi Canyon Railroad in AZ. Same logo, different colors! We love to bag the souvenir tee at every railroad - car show - event!
I remember First time we went to Colorado that was D&S railroad was a really good ride From Durango to Silverton, Colorado and back It was really fun
Yes. I rode this train in 2005. Bought the Parlor car when it was about 90 bucks. Round trip. Got video. Lots. Each time i watch it.....it's breathtaking. Your right....once in a lifetime. Enjoy!
On my bucket list. It's one exceptional excursion train trip. The sights are to die for.
+Peter CPRail8748 I'd like to make it an annual trip!
+Peter CPRail8748 It's my favorite place to go
That is a terrific ride! When we were there, I took a tour they had of their steam shop and their car shop. From the questions I was asking, they knew that I knew a lot about the steam locomotive and they took me on a nice private supplemental tour of an engine upon which they were working at the time. I got to go into the smoke box and the fire box and see them bead over the ends to seal the tubes, etcetera. In your video here, it sounds like 480 is having some valve timing issues. They showed me how they do that also. For me, that was the most wonderful trip, ever! Thank you for helping me reminisce!! You got me excited all over again!!
They are nice people and a great shop. I hear people bad mouth Durango for no access to the shop. Really? Yes, they charge to take a tour. No wandering around like at some shops. But this is better. Because they are there telling you what’s going on and as you say when they know you have interest in their work, they are so great about walking you through it. Showing everything.
@@ToyManTelevision -- Regardless of what you do, somebody will complain! No act of kindness will go unpunished, don't you know! D&SNGRR is taking someone out of a productive job to give a tour to some ungrateful tourists and they complain because it taps their wallet a little. Oh boohoo. Go to the washroom and cry your eyes out while the rest of us enjoy the tour!! I am sorry, but I have no patience nor compassion for chronic complainers! MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN IT!! I am sure you see a lot of that chronic complaining too, through your UA-cam channel. At least you can block the constant whiners there.
What a beautiful line, Lovely yellow coaches, so cheerful! One day when I travel around the world to the best tourist steam railways I be sure to add Durango and Silverton to my list!
Hard to post these days. Google has changed something and I cant comment in the comments section. "failed to post" message.
The Durango Silverton Railroad is probably best video I've seen.
The music was fantastic and the information about the railroad was superb
+Terry Gold Gee. I blush!! THANKS.
What a beautiful train
To the toy man n lady ; thanks for carrying us along on your screwing around campaign. Just simply amazing scenery and show. Thanks
+ScottyRockTrains Such a fun place. And the shops!!!
+Toy Man Television go to bryson city NC to ride an very most scenic RR
What a fun trip! If you wasn't a train enthusiast... THIS would change your mind! Beautiful scenery.. Mountain splendor... I enjoyed every minute! Durango & Silverton... Simply breathtaking!! 😃
This is my favorite place to go to. The people are nice, the trains are awesome, and they have so much to do down in and by Durango.
+The Incinerator We are heading back. Soon I hope. Well next summer. BUT SOON
That was some down right gorgeous scenery!
Love that train and route. Thanks for the video
Planning a trip back SOON!! Narrow gauge convention...
Excellent. It is even more awesome that what I though it will be.
+pbyfr Love Colorado and narrow gauge. And Durango....
Awsome can't wait to ride
Nice very nice. That scenery is spectacular and steam just makes the scene perfect!!! John Allen's famous Gorre & Depheited model railroad obviously got inspiration from this region.
We rode again a few weeks ago. New show soon on our trip.
@@ToyManTelevision I really enjoyed the stuff on Otto Mear. I'd love to see more about him and his railroads. Great stuff incredible scenery too. As the old saying goes "glorious scenery is the nightmare for any railway engineer" obviously it didn't scare him off!
Excellent as always !
+LAND SEA AIR CANADA Thanks! Love shooting trains.
By the looks of the orange water, you must have went on it shortly after the mine spill. What a mess that was. Love the video, I just moved out of Colorado and I miss it.
+Omeg~Alpha97! Yup! What a MESS
Great video, love the shops, very rare to see. Again great video.
+upsd402 Fun place. I need to go there every few years just to stay sane. (sainish)
Love the old Mudhens!
+Thomas Coughran They are cool for sure, but all the Mikes are great!!
I will go to that one too
Closed for now because of the fires. But what a railroad!!!!
Lived in the area for 20 years.
+fiddlesteven great Place. Need to go back.
Great trip, locomotives...and tremendous scenery! Perfect! :) Jack
+Jack R Hi Jack!! Hope all is well in the Philippines. You two should go to Durango. Great ride!
+Toy Man Television That really would be a cool trip...what scenery! Paperwork pending! LOL! :) Jack
Great video, Dale! Great photography and great music, too! (I can tell you have a favorite there!). I've got to go there. I knew Leo Campbell well (of Campbell Scale Models). I had my furniture shop in his shop. He lent me space. But I never made it to Durango when he moved there. I'd call him now and then but he died before I got there. Now Durango is like Beverly Hills I hear.
Durango is amazing, a bit "Hollywood" but still amazing. You will have a ball. And drive the back roads and old grades. Some wonders to see there.
I lied. I was there. In late 1966 I was in college in Flagstaff and some of us went to Durango to ski. We stopped by the roundhouse but everything was closed up. It almost looked abandoned. Nothing of interest could be seen, and no one but me gave a hoot. I'll be back, I said.
66 Was a bad time there. The D and RG was TRYING to close it down, trying to make people go away. I have 40 minutes of video wit Robert Richardson who explained it. Amazing story. 66 was the worst.
That sounds about right. Wow, 40 minute interview! That would make a GREAT Toy Man Video! Thanks for all you're doing, Dale! Keep it up!
Greg Smith The San Juan extension one was abandoned in 1968 and fortunately Durango to Silverton were saved. And at the last minute Cumbre's and toltec was saved as well. Denver and Rio Grande kept ownership of Durango to Silverton but very soon sold it to a private investor name to Bradshaw really turned a line around
Really enjoyed this. Great work filming and editing!
We love Durango!!
When the train retches high point it slows down do to sharp curves. That's also good because it's very scenic. And there's no need to rush.
I am going soon hopefully
No screwing around on this video, well down. Like the tour of the round house and shops. Sidebar story. / My wife is from Ouray, Colorado. Just north, over the million dollar highway.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway, “ A Toy Train Layout” 🚂
+trainroomgary Screwing around is a matter of definition. Im not sure who is screwing around more, us or the people we are filming!
I want to go there!
Only music I hear is CW McAlls song, but great video non the less. I've ridden this train and I enjoyed it.
Now thats stuck in my head....
+longrider42 *I presume ye refer to:*
*THE SILVERTON / C. W. McCALL* (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer album 5008, Track A2)
(William D. Fries Jr.) American Gramaphone, SESAC
This Song would have been ideal for an ad campaign for Silverton Branch passenger service on the D&RGW.
I think he meant The Gallopin' Goose by C.W. McCall. Cool tune played the video. got it stuck in my head. Now I've got this weeks video on operations stuck in my head.
Did you hear that not that long ago the Animas river there was turned almost completely yellow? There was an accident in an old abandoned mine up in Silverton, where some workers were doing some stuff, and there was a spill. I could see that there were a few spots of yellow still in the river from the video.
+SmeagolPlaysMC Yes, the river was a MESS. green water and yellow stains on the rocks. MESS.
+Toy Man Television The Animas has always been emerald green, but the yellow is pretty obvious.
great video, you ever plan on visiting the Texas State railroad?
+844trainman It would be great!! I've seen video of it
Awesome! ? This is on my bucked list so I hope I'm able to go in the future! I wonder why they don't use diesels on excursion...
The diesels they have can't pull a train up the grade. Great for switching. They are looking for several road engines to do that with. But many fans are against it thinking they will stop running steam. D and S says, no, jus when the fire danger is high. Never again will we be the cause of a major fire. SO, D and S will shut down and cancel all trips when the fire danger is high, OR buy 5 or 6 diesel road engines. Im in favor of the diesels. I doubt they would ever stop steam as thats what people com to see. BUT Grand canyon did.... so?
@@ToyManTelevision that's kinda funny the Steam Engines can pull more then the engines that replaced them, and your right people keeped going to the Grand Canyon Railroad even with diesels, same with steamtown pennsylvania my home state they only have 1 steam and that's a switcher for the Baldwin Locomotive Works when they were in business by the way great work on the channel
hey I love your channel as you can see I have a southern pacific daylight ho scale steam engine wich in Portland Oregon, they have the same steam engine that you can ride. this year it's pulling the Christmas express. you should go there some time
+Carson Kane Planning on it. Love Portland. And the truck museum is nearby. Love the 4449. Is yours the Lionel HO?
I think bachmann
I have the 4-6-2 SP daylight it'd in one of my videos check it out
It in the "some of my ho scale trains" video thanks for replying
oh if you think you will hit snow you are correct i bet if it is snowing here in utah i bet it is snowing there in Colorado!
+Mr goat Missed the snow there. GOOD. Not a snow fan.
+Toy Man Television yeah its not that tall so its not too bad
where do you get your background music?
+spfilms4449 From Smart Sound. Been using their stuff for years! Love it.
What a marvelous look at Durango and Silverton Railroad! Amen, what a place!!! With a tour of the shops and museum, and a ride to Silverton! Thank you very much! :-)
C.W. McCall - The Silverton
watch?v=U2VbX-DbLrY
Did you ride the train back down?
Nope. We wanted to get some video from off the train
What music do you use for your videos?
Smart Sound. Love their music and software. A few, very few pieces are just me and my keyboard and instrument samples.
ua-cam.com/video/Rf8JBYp1HsE/v-deo.html
is one of those.
But most is from:
www.smartsound.com/
We will be ridding the new Mexico train
Really looking forward to seeing the T 12 when it’s on the line!! Soon too!
Hello MR. TOYMAN and Wife ,I recently subscribed and if I could afford it I would go to all the neat places that you go to. I am planning on updating my youtube channel and show everybody out there what I have been up to. I am a avid N-Scaler but love all scales too. I am also a scenery fanatic and scratch builder. I'm 58 been into nscale for 44 years and HO is where I started. btw cant find the blue button you keep talking about. keep having fun screwing up I mean screwing around.
+mrmartyman7 Button should pop in on the UA-cam channel. Was once in the upper right, then YT moved it to lower right. May not pop in on some browsers? It up the whole tim on most phone apps. But may not eve come it at all on some. There was a time when doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result was the sign of being nuts. Now it's just the way computers work.
and i have the surpise this year in chama
+Jonathan Cordova When should we plan a visit?
+Toy Man Television Special Session - 5/19 thru 5/22
Session A - 5/23 thru 5/27
Session B - 5/30 thru 6/3
Session C - 6/20 thru 6/24
Session D - 6/27 thru 7/1
Session E - 7/25 thru 7/29
Session F - 8/1 thru 8/5
Session G - 9/26 thru 9/30
WE WILL BE THERE!!!!!!!
This is where Disney World should be.
Sort of is. Only better!
go to Bryson City NC
Toy Man!
+nate chapman The Great Smokey Mountains. We have the Great Salt Lake. Which smells like rotten eggs.. Smokey Mountains that smell like coal smoke, BETTER!
Instead of buggy no my parents to take me my mom is going to get me the set
Forget the music. We want to hear the train
I like both. At times.
The guys pulling g that wheel was really loud RIP headphone users
Yea! I thought I was shot when it happened.
Nice video , but music....,oh.
For once you guys are not wearing the same colored shirt!
They are from the Whistle Stop on the Verdi Canyon Railroad in AZ. Same logo, different colors! We love to bag the souvenir tee at every railroad - car show - event!