Sidebar by Bill Murphy
Transportation – July 2007 – Colorado Central Magazine
My first visit to Salida was by rail in the summer of 1959. I came here to check out a radio station that was for sale. I rode the Burlington from Chicago to Denver, then the Rio Grande from Denver to Salida. You didn’t get off that train; there was some switching when you might have to move from a sleeper car to a coach, but you never stepped off the train.