Rio-Grande Round Up

The San Juan Mountains loom over a 4,000 square mile area in the Southwest corner of Colorado. It was upon this rugged terrain that Otto Mears (dubbed the Transportation King of the San Juans) nearly single-handedly oversaw this 172 mile of track for the Rio Grande Southern, the most spectacular mountain railroad ever attempted in America. The RGS circled and crawled over four mountain passes between Ridgway and Durango, tapping Rico and Telluride, and many other mining towns and crossing the highest point at 10,250 feet at Lizard Head Pass. For sixty years (1893 to the early 1950) This is a Giclee fine art print.