When Tom became strong enough to win, the bragging rights were his, and the whole town knew it. The train takes a shorter and easier route, but with limited speed, so it is truly a race between man and machine. As the train came by the house, the steam whistle screamed and Tom climbed on his trusty steel framed 10 speed and pedaled up over the rim of the old volcano and descended into the caldera to the mining town of Silverton. Tom challenged Jim to a race to Silverton. Tom was a young bicycle enthusiast who grew up alongside the tracks to Silverton. Jim worked as a brakeman on the D & R G W railroad which had run the steam powered locomotive between Durango and Silverton since the 1880's. The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic was the brain child of Tom Mayer and his older brother Jim.
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