{"id":600,"date":"2017-11-20T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:26:22","slug":"family-trip-on-the-durango-silverton-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/family-trip-on-the-durango-silverton-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Trip on the Durango Silverton Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August when my family took a trip through Colorado we planned on letting our children experience this wonderful scenic railway. This was actually our daughter&#8217;s second trip on the railway but she was only a toddler at the time and did not remember much.<\/p>\n<p>This time, she is older and our son was 6 years old and just loves trains. So, what a wonder experience for them to have right?<\/p>\n<p>This time we took the one-way trip rather than the round trip due to time constraints but as the trip begins in Durango and ends in Silverton Colorado, we figured they would enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-601 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_075155_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>This picture was taken in front the #481 engine at the Durango Station. After we arrived we got our seat in our passenger car so we were ready for the trip.<\/p>\n<p>Once underway I began filming or shooting pictures but knew I would have to limit my activity because this was a 3 hour trip moving very slowly at some points due to 9-11% incline grades. What I did get though and what the family experienced was well worth the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along the way we say a few old railroad items, some still in use like this water tower&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_104612_HDR_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And some no longer in use like this trestle span.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-603 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_111339_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we traveled up the route towards Silverton you could see the minerals beginning to build in the Animas River from the old mines that originated around Silverton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_113710_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is on of the old mines that were used and dotted the mountain side up in this area of Colorado.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_113930_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally our journey ended at Silverton Colorado were we strolled around this rustic now tourist town a\u00a0 while prior to our bus departure back to Durango.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-606 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20170802_115412_r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This trip, well about 30 minutes of the 3 hour journey is in a video I created located on my Youtube Channel at<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trip on the Durango &amp; Silverton Railroad\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zy1sReUocpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August when my family took a trip through Colorado we planned on letting our children experience this wonderful scenic railway. This was actually our daughter&#8217;s second trip on the railway but she was only a toddler at the time and did not remember much. This time, she is older and our son was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/family-trip-on-the-durango-silverton-railroad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family Trip on the Durango Silverton Railroad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[63,64,66,7,65,67],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-family","category-trains","tag-colorado","tag-durango","tag-durango-and-silverton-railroad","tag-sean-moenkhoff","tag-silverton","tag-steam-train","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snaservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}