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Firing Up the Coal for a Colorado Getaway

The Day to Day summer travel series continues with another trip -- this time, however, using a very different kind of fossil fuel.

Adam Burke skips the gasoline and hops on a narrow-gauge, coal-powered train into an isolated canyon near Durango, Colo.

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