Re: "Through The Weeds, Not Around Them"
| September 01, 2018 01:02PM |
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Here's a photo rather than 1,000 words to answer your question, Peyton -
. . . a shot from 50 years ago, #498 eastbound at Cresco with the last REAL freight over Cumbres Pass:
IIRC, I first heard "Through The Weeds, Not Around Them" from photographer / cartographer Ernie Robart, but it may have been Terry Ross or Chili John Pritchard who first coined the phrase – a play on the Rio Grande's advertising slogan, "Through The Rockies, Not Around Them." Or maybe it came even earlier from someone who worked on the line after 1964, when the trains became fewer and fewer and the weeds became taller and taller . . .
- Roosso
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2018 04:54PM by Russo Loco.
. . . a shot from 50 years ago, #498 eastbound at Cresco with the last REAL freight over Cumbres Pass:
IIRC, I first heard "Through The Weeds, Not Around Them" from photographer / cartographer Ernie Robart, but it may have been Terry Ross or Chili John Pritchard who first coined the phrase – a play on the Rio Grande's advertising slogan, "Through The Rockies, Not Around Them." Or maybe it came even earlier from someone who worked on the line after 1964, when the trains became fewer and fewer and the weeds became taller and taller . . .
- Roosso
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2018 04:54PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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