{"id":60415,"date":"2018-09-11T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-train-plans-to-resume-full-service-sept-21\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T01:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:58:46","slug":"durango-train-plans-to-resume-full-service-sept-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-train-plans-to-resume-full-service-sept-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango train plans to resume full service Sept. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=72c3f1e7-abde-457d-a59c-18ce75899713&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The railroad is stabilizing a section of track on Hermosa Hill and expects construction will allow trains to travel between Durango and Silverton on Sept. 21. Currently, trips are being made from the Rockwood Station to Silverton.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The railroad is stabilizing a section of track on Hermosa Hill and expects construction will allow trains to travel between Durango and Silverton on Sept. 21. Currently, trips are being made from the Rockwood Station to Silverton.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the Durango &amp; Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Durango &amp; Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad plans to resume full service from Durango to Silverton on Sept. 21, a spokesman for the train said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The D&amp;SNG has been limited to running train routes from Rockwood Station to Silverton since mid-July when mudslides and debris flows from rains on the 416 Fire burn scar wiped out a section of tracks north of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the worst incident we\u2019ve had happen to the railroad since 1970, when we lost 13 miles of track to a flood,\u201d owner Al Harper said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Train spokesman Christian Robbins said Tuesday repairs to the tracks are likely to be complete by this weekend. It\u2019s likely the trains, which have been stranded north of Durango since the mudslides, will be brought down this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure it\u2019s safe before putting passengers on that section,\u201d Robbins said.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins was unaware how much repairs have cost so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always challenging to work with the rain,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re making good headway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The D&amp;SNG plans to run two trains from Durango to Silverton at 8 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. starting Sept. 21, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The train\u2019s service was also hampered this summer during the 416 Fire, when service was suspended for 41 days.<\/p>\n<p>The D&amp;SNG\u2019s final day of service to Silverton will be the last Sunday of October, as usual, Robbins said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repairs to tracks damaged by mudslides should be complete this weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2838,170,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-416-fire","tag-durango-and-silverton-narrow-gauge-railroad-co","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60415"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}