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(obsolete) network
For nearly a century, America's railway network was the most effective way to move people and goods around this geographically massive nation. Railroads like this one – the Cumbres & Toltec on the Colorado/New Mexico border – connected into a dense web of track. The US railway network had 430,000 miles of track at its peak, enough to circumnavigate the Earth *seventeen* times.
The Cumbres & Toltec's working days are long gone. Its surviving rails stand isolated from the San Luis & Rio Grande line to its north and Durango & Silverton line to its west. But if you board it for a day-long amble through the peaks and grasslands, you can still sense the phantom pulse of the rails under your feet and feel the awe that that comes from knowing human hands, aided by little more than shovels and dynamite, built something so vast as to tie the far corners of this land into one interconnected whole.
Visit youtu.be/a8lX5A2q-Eo to watch the American railway network blossom and ebb.
Learn more about the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad at cumbrestoltec.com/
(obsolete) network
For nearly a century, America's railway network was the most effective way to move people and goods around this geographically massive nation. Railroads like this one – the Cumbres & Toltec on the Colorado/New Mexico border – connected into a dense web of track. The US railway network had 430,000 miles of track at its peak, enough to circumnavigate the Earth *seventeen* times.
The Cumbres & Toltec's working days are long gone. Its surviving rails stand isolated from the San Luis & Rio Grande line to its north and Durango & Silverton line to its west. But if you board it for a day-long amble through the peaks and grasslands, you can still sense the phantom pulse of the rails under your feet and feel the awe that that comes from knowing human hands, aided by little more than shovels and dynamite, built something so vast as to tie the far corners of this land into one interconnected whole.
Visit youtu.be/a8lX5A2q-Eo to watch the American railway network blossom and ebb.
Learn more about the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad at cumbrestoltec.com/