Re: New RR Damage Near the Palisades

Scott Turner Wrote:
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> Skip, I'm very familiar with that drainage and...
> you're a braver pilot than I am. With apologies
> for a bit of flying talk, what plane do you fly?


Scott,
Thanks for asking. I have two planes.

My 1946 Taylorcraft is a bit low-n-slow to wonder over the Alpine tunnel but it is wonderful for tracing the old Chili line and winding over the C&TS and Cumbres Pass.
My 1967 Piper Comanche 260-B handled the work at Alpine Tunnel quite nicely. In the Comanche, Alpine is about an hour north of where I live.

Airplanes are really great for finding bits of old roadbed and such. One of my earliest flying memories is me, 14 years old, taking my first few lessons in a Piper SuperCub. Turning over the old semi-abandoned Union Pacific roundhouse and yard in Gering Nebraska, I think I realized how my two young interests could mesh. The two interests still mesh quite nicely.