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[quote user="Bucyrus"]Regarding the standard gauging having an effect on the tourist riders, I guess it depends on why they are riding the train.  Perhaps most of them are only interested in the scenery and don’t care what the railroad looks like.  As a tourist, I would not care about the operating efficiency of the railroad, but would rather see a railroad that seemed to be dramatically challenged by the terrain.  [/quote] I agree with your points here, at least in the most extreme cases of the alignment. Most of the line could be upgraded to standard-gauge without a lot of realignment and noticeable reconstruction, but the steepest sections of the canyon would have to be blasted away and realigned - something that tourists WOULD notice. It would stop looking like the Durango & Silverton and instead look like Feather River Canyon...scenic as ever but without the narrow track and tight curves that make narrow-gauge so popular to railfans and tourists alike.
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