Re: Help Please? Getting Off the Interstate (where possible)
| January 02, 2020 06:57AM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Old 66 from Kingman through Seligman to Ash Fork
> is WAY nicer than the "new" I-40 freeway, Rich -
>
> And it's alongside the ATSF for at least part of
> the way. Another very interesting but short
> and dead-end stretch is Old-Old-OLD 66 west of
> Kingman, which is accessible by following Fourth
> Street south and west across the tracks from El
> Palacio in Old Downtown Kingman on Old 66.
> See
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 59590 and
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 59591 for photos.
>
> - El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y
> Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y
> Verdes,
> aka Der Grossväterlich
> DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaben
> der
>
> p.s. May I presume that by this time we have
> Rosso (no relation) convinced that he should fly
> into Los Angeles and drive east on Old 66 (as much
> as possible) to Narrow Gauge Country, or at
> least to drive west to L.A. after his visit and
> fly home from there . . .
Ha! Alternately fly into Chicago and drive west to Narrow Gauge Country . Then after spending a LOT of time there, drive west and return home from LA.
(I can spend an other's money as well as anyone
)
I hope we'll hear back from Rosso soon as I am curious about how all this input is striking him
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> Old 66 from Kingman through Seligman to Ash Fork
> is WAY nicer than the "new" I-40 freeway, Rich -
>
> And it's alongside the ATSF for at least part of
> the way. Another very interesting but short
> and dead-end stretch is Old-Old-OLD 66 west of
> Kingman, which is accessible by following Fourth
> Street south and west across the tracks from El
> Palacio in Old Downtown Kingman on Old 66.
> See
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 59590 and
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 59591 for photos.
>
> - El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y
> Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y
> Verdes,
> aka Der Grossväterlich
> DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaben
> der
>
> p.s. May I presume that by this time we have
> Rosso (no relation) convinced that he should fly
> into Los Angeles and drive east on Old 66 (as much
> as possible) to Narrow Gauge Country, or at
> least to drive west to L.A. after his visit and
> fly home from there . . .
Ha! Alternately fly into Chicago and drive west to Narrow Gauge Country . Then after spending a LOT of time there, drive west and return home from LA.
(I can spend an other's money as well as anyone
)I hope we'll hear back from Rosso soon as I am curious about how all this input is striking him
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