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Durango-Silverton at High Bridge San Juans Ceramic Art Tile
$22.00
A narrow-gauge steam train, climbing the canyon between Durango and Silverton along a track three feet wide. The Denver & Rio Grande built the line in 1881 and finished it the next year; it has been working ever since, on coal and steam. From the trail above, the High Bridge is a long, slow crossing: a column of smoke against the San Juan rock, a whistle the canyon has known since 1882. The road to Silverton runs on the other side of the divide. Down here the train is the way in.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.