great american rail journeys: eureka & palisade railroad  hop aboard the walnut cab of eureka & palisade #4, built by the baldwin locomotive works in philadelphia in 1875, and take a trip back into the past on its nine-day visit to the historic durango & silverton railroad. follow the painstakingly restored beauty right out of the roundhouse as it steams northward through the valley, past the towering rock walls and snow-covered peaks, with the river rushing four hundred feet below.