There was one more n.g. line...maybe, but doubtful

A writer named Trevanian, (nom du plume) whose novels include The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi, wrote of a narrow gauge line without naming it in his novel Incident at Twenty-Mile. He claimed that he based the book on a conversation he had with a old gas station/general store proprietor in a ghost town called Destiny, WY during a road trip out west from his home in Vermont. The old man told him of an abandoned narrow gauge "spur" (you'll like this, Rick) that connected Destiny and a silver mine at Twenty-Mile, to the Union Pacific main somewhere west of Laramie in the Medicine Bow Range.

Trevanian, an unconventional writer whom you would never trust, claimed this setting for Twenty-Mile. He proclaimed the book to be the "last Western" as there was no further need for anyone to write another novel about the old West. He might be right. No one ever criticized Trevanian as being too modest. Regardless, Twenty-Mile is a dark trip but a hell of a ride. By the way, Tie Siding is one of the locations in the story. Trevanian may be a liar, but he's a skillful one.



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