![](https://coloradocentralmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Chuck-Brantigan-with-No.-4_WEB.jpg)
Article and photos by Laura Van Dusen
It’s been 80 years since the last train left the Como depot. Eighty years, a lifetime ago, since a train whistle gave a last shout pulling away from the station, and a narrow-gauge engine, steam belching from its stack, pulled rail cars across South Park.