Dashing Through The Snow
Here's a fine example of “guardrailfanning” as the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 dashes through fresh snow between Rio and Thistle the morning of April 3, 1983. It is as this point to the west that the D&RGW built the Thistle Line Change through Billy's Mountain that would begin in a few weeks when the mainline closed due to a 300 ft. landslide. The realignment hangs a righthand curve along the roadway (which also would be replaced), taking a grade free route to a 3009 ft. tunnel through the mountain, and down the hill meeting the original alignment at Castilla.
Dashing Through The Snow
Here's a fine example of “guardrailfanning” as the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 dashes through fresh snow between Rio and Thistle the morning of April 3, 1983. It is as this point to the west that the D&RGW built the Thistle Line Change through Billy's Mountain that would begin in a few weeks when the mainline closed due to a 300 ft. landslide. The realignment hangs a righthand curve along the roadway (which also would be replaced), taking a grade free route to a 3009 ft. tunnel through the mountain, and down the hill meeting the original alignment at Castilla.