This photo and caption appeared in the Nov. 23, 1965, Herald: “They don’t make them like this anymore, primarily because few trains run during the winter months. Ted Grabowsky of Durango dug this photo out of his collection. It shows the rotary snowplow of the D&RGW all but burying the Durango depot as it cleared tracks for trains which were more frequent in those days.”
This photo and caption appeared in the Nov. 23, 1965, Herald: “They don’t make them like this anymore, primarily because few trains run during the winter months. Ted Grabowsky of Durango dug this photo out of his collection. It shows the rotary snowplow of the D&RGW all but burying the Durango depot as it cleared tracks for trains which were more frequent in those days.”Special to the Herald

75 years ago: “Eddie Dowds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dowds of Durango, is home for the Christmas holidays from the school for deaf children at Colorado Springs, where he is a third-year student.”

50 years ago: “Holiday skiers will find excellent conditions at all the San Juan Basin’s facilities – provided they can find them under the deep snows left by the area’s latest major storm. Southwestern Colorado’s ski areas all had plenty of snow for good skiing before this week’s storm brought them 18 to 36 inches of new snow to the mountains. The big job facing all operators now is getting the runs packed to provide first-class skiing. This week’s snow was exceptionally heavy, the type that makes for difficult skiing until it’s packed.”

25 years ago: “Fort Lewis College students will be part of the first group in the NASA-established Space Grant program to fly an experimental rocket into the atmosphere. Blast-off is tentatively planned for 1992. The FLC group, which calls itself the Space Grant College Rocket Team, is developing experiments to measure photons in the ozone layer to determine how much and if the ozone has been depleted.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.