Goodbye, Colorado

The Rocky Mountain News: April 23, 1859-February 27, 2009.

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Still delayed

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – As was the case yesterday, I set the alarm clock this morning for 5:45 a.m., but it never went off.
That’s because the sun woke me up 15 minutes early, as it began to creep over the mountains in the Great Basin. Though part of me definitely wanted to sleep some more, the [...]

Rocky Mountain High

(Did you really expect me to use anything else for the headline?)
We finally reached Denver at around 11:30 a.m. MT. We spent about 20 minutes there, during which time the train was cleaned a bit and some supplies were restocked. We also got newspapers delivered, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.

I was a bit [...]

The scene changes

FORT MORGAN, Colo. – I had a hunch that we wouldn’t be able to make it all the way across the country without running into rain somewhere.
And so it was overnight, as I rolled over at one point and saw two bright flashes out the window. Once my ears woke up, I could tell that [...]

Slowing down

OSCEOLA, Iowa – A couple of things happened this afternoon that were reasons to pause and think for a while.
The less prosaic events were delays, a few of which were considerable. Two were the result of stop signals on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe-owned tracks, while a third was the result of tugboats traveling on [...]