The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and its parent company will pay $20 million to the U.S. government for damage caused by the 2018 416 Fire near Durango under a settlement agreement announced Monday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the company will also adjust its operations and come into compliance with a new operating and fire prevention plan that it will have to update every year to mitigate fire danger from the antique locomotive, which sparked the 54,000-acre fire.
The filing maintained the first public announcement that the train caused the fire, though it had long been suspected as the source by locals. It had a metal screen over its exhaust stack to capture burning exhaust particles but that the screen did not trap every particle. It says that some of those particles ended up on the ground next to the railroad and sparked a small brush fire, which then spread.
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad will also have to comply with a plan that limits its operations when there is elevated fire risk and shuts the railroad down under conditions for extreme wildfire potential.
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