If you hop aboard the tourist-popular Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train in southern Colorado, don’t expect to smell the coal-fired smoke coming out of the historic engines.
It’s gone. No more. Instead, the company phased out its last coal-burning engine this year and switched to five oil-powered engines running on the tracks from Durango to Silverton. All in the name of economics and the prevention of fires caused by the floating embers from the burning coal.
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