The Rio Grande Southern 90 Mins #SRP-RGS90 $29.95 The Complete Record of the World Famous Narrow Gauge that Disappeared in 1951 A new 90 minute version of the Rio Grande Southern, the famous two hour tape made from Otto Perry’s films in 1988. Every single one of the hundreds of run pasts have been preserved in their entirety. Stills, foliage, narrative and static scenes have been shortened. Narrated by the men and women who worked for, rode on and dedicated their lives to maintaining this important link thru a chaos of 13,000’ mountain peaks. It stretched 4% grades to the fabled cities of gold and silver: Telluride, Rico and Ophir. At Placerville it loaded more cattle than any other on-ine Rio Grande station. It carried more happy sightseers thru the golden aspens of autumn aboard its famed Galloping Geese than a years worth of regular passengers. In war it hid the ingredients of the atomic bomb - an ore so heavy it was seldom noticed between the doors of the freight cars. For many, particularly in winter, it was the only way across the mountains to civilization. From the archives of the Rocky Mountain RR Club. back