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Beyond the Headlines

Episodes (46)

Friday Voices of the Past: Lessons from the Rails (Part 2)
Wed Jul 15th Voices of the Past: Lessons from the Rails (Part 1)
Jun 19th Voices of the Past: Lessons from the Land — The Agricultural History of Southwest Colorado (Part 2)

Beyond the Headlines

Jul 17, 2026
3¼ minutes
2 MB

Durango exists because of a railroad that almost went somewhere else. In this documentary, Jeff Johnson traces the arrival of the Denver and Rio Grande in Southwest Colorado — from General William Jackson Palmer's original 1870 push south out of Denver, to the mining boom that pulled the rails toward the San Juans, to the founding of Durango itself in 1881 as a town built by and for the railroad. Jeff follows the line through its boom years serving the Silverton mining district, its near-collapse after the Silver Purchase Act was repealed in 1893, and its unlikely second life as a beloved tourist at...

Beyond the Headlines

Voices of the Past: Lessons from the Rails (Part 2)

The Local NEWS Network

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