Brian Norden Wrote:
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> hank Wrote:
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> > "Dump it over the side" comments bring to mind
> the
> > old new (I think it's been rebuilt again since
> the
> > last time I went over it in '73) highway
> through
> > the Salt River Canyon in Arizona (US 60). It
> was
> > like a reverse mountain pass, you wound down
> one
> > side, crossed the river, then climbed out the
> > other.
>
> A few years ago, I was driving from Southern
> California to Santa Fe for a cousin's daughter's
> wedding and going east from the Phoenix area to
> the Rio Grande I travel on US 60.
>
> Even though there has been work (and repaving at
> the time of that trip) and a fairly recent bridge
> at the bottom. All I can say about the decent and
> the climb at the Salt River is
> "
OMG!"
>
> A very interesting trip on US40 to the Rio Grande.
> Stayed the night at Show Low. And east of there
> in the middle of nowhere there was a double-track
> grade crossing! Well it is part of the
> [url=https://public.nrao.edu/visit/very-large-arra
> y/]The Very Large Array Radio Telescope
> facility.[/url]
>
> Brian Norden
I rode my road bike from Socorro West on 60 through the Salt River Canyon many times. The 90 degree turn onto the small concrete bridge at the bottom always amazed me. JP