The Man Who Loves the West: Al Harper is True West’s 2024 True Westerner of the Year “I fell in love with trains when my dad gave my brothers and me a Lionel train set when I was eight,” says Allen C. Harper, owner of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in Durango, Colorado.   American Heritage Railways, including the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, is family business for owners and manage


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