See Cimarron Canyon Rail Exhibit (Engine 278), Cimarron, Colorado

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Located on the original trestle at Morrow Point in The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. A narrow gauge train hauled mail and passengers from Denver, Colorado to the Western Slope of Colorado in the early 1900's. On Friday, October 26, 2018, Denver & Rio Grande Western Engine 278, its tender, a boxcar, and a caboose, were returned to the truss bridge at Cimarron in Curecanti National Recreation Area. The engine and cars, as well as the bridge, have been undergoing extensive restoration over the last eight years. Engine 278 and the tender, owned by the City of Montrose and on long-term loan to the NPS, were restored by Mammoth Locomotive Works of Palisade, Colorado. The caboose, also part of the agreement with Montrose, was restored by Wasatch Railroad Contractors of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Work on the box car was done in Durango, Colorado by the Durango and Silverton Railroad. The train set rests in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison at Cimarron on its historical truss bridge, recently restored by Eddie Lopez Construction of Hurricane, Utah. All of the train pieces, as well as the truss bridge, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Though other engines and cars still exist throughout the area, these are significant in that they are in their original place, giving viewers the opportunity to experience the train as it would have looked coming through the canyon on its way to Montrose. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Scenic Line of the World ran freight, livestock, and passengers from August of 1882 through 1949.

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