Durango is getting its own Poet Laureate, a poet officially hired by a government or institution to write poems for special events and occasions. In fact, the city is getting two laureates.

Standard, narrow and baby railroad gauges used at the mines in Arizona were based upon the width of the track: standard gauge (56ƒ inches), narrow gauge (less than 56ƒ inches) and baby gauge (20 ...

Built along the railroad track – and what would become Route 66 – the Historic Downtown and Railroad District is a pedestrian-friendly area filled with historic 1900s-era buildings that have ...

Among other endeavors, he paid to build a narrow-gauge railroad from Divide through Wise River and up to Coolidge, where he also built the state’s largest silver mill at the time, completed in 1922.

Other improvements followed with the erection of a narrow gauge railroad in 1906 that connected the nearby mines to the Silver City Smelter. Gold production in the district decreased in the early ...