Re: Meejum-sized rock on C&TS right-of-way

hank Wrote:
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> Yep, it's rock-rolling season. When I was dating
> my wife I was heading home form Durango to
> Gunnison and came 'round a corner on 550 (be-
> tween Coal Bank & Molas) and found an armchair
> sized rook in the middle of my lane. I wasn't going
> very fast, not the 1st rock on the road I'd seen that
> weekend, so got stopped then went around it. Sure
> woke me up though (this was about 4 AM).


Even mid-October can be rock-rolling season -

Back in 1970 when volunteers were helping the two or three paid employees of the C&TS to move all the equipment purchased from the D&RGW out of Antonito, I worked the eastbound trip on October 16 as a volunteer.  We encountered a fairly large rock on the r.o.w. a couple of miles west of Osier that took the entire crew about an hour to somehow get up and over the outside rail and far enough out of the way to let 483's no-longer-bright-red counterweights get past.   See [ngdiscussion.net].

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender