Echos of Thistle

Nearly eight years before a massive mudslide destroyed the town of Thistle, Utah, the Rio Grande Zephyr exits the confines of the small railroad community the morning of Nov. 16, 1975.

 

These tracks would be relocated in a 3,009 ft. tunnel through Billies Mountain, and the ruins of the old Rio Grande in Thistle became little more than a silent memory.

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