“Herald reporter Roy Pace went down to the D&RGW yards to get a picture of the Nomad, (an) elegant private car, with Elliott Donnelley, Chicago printing executive, (who) recently bought (it) from ... Ralph Atlasses. Instead, Rio Grande-land Director Alexis McKinney took Pace’s picture as he examined a Victorian silver service in the car. Donnelley transferred the car to Cinco Animas Corp. of Durango in June 1964 and the Nomad will stay in Durango.”

Durango Herald file photo

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“Herald reporter Roy Pace went down to the D&RGW yards to get a picture of the Nomad, (an) elegant private car, with Elliott Donnelley, Chicago printing executive, (who) recently bought (it) from ... Ralph Atlasses. Instead, Rio Grande-land Director Alexis McKinney took Pace’s picture as he examined a Victorian silver service in the car. Donnelley transferred the car to Cinco Animas Corp. of Durango in June 1964 and the Nomad will stay in Durango.”

Durango Herald file photo

100 years ago: “William Shaffer, with Mrs. Shaffer and Miss Shaffer left for the Neglected country on an outing trip of a few days. ‘Bill’ will sink a few shafts in his mining properties while in the hills.”

75 years ago: “Members of Silverton Miners’ Union No. 26 voted in favor of a strike of the union workers at the Shenandoah-Dives mine and mill. The strike vote was 175 to 48.”

50 years ago: “Two sections of the Silverton, D&RGW narrow gauge, carried 761 passengers to bring the year’s total to 20,633, exceeding the entire season for 1955 and surpassing the 1963 total for the same date by 4,014.”

25 years ago: “Jim Nelson, owner of Durango’s A’Roma Restaurant and Tavern, was the environmental control subsystem engineer for the lunar module during the Apollo 11 flight to the moon 20 years ago this week.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.