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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by passengerfan</i> <br /><br />To all those drivers running I-80 west of Larimie over El Mountain in the winter their is a much safer way and the old timers know it. That is the old route 30 that parallels the UP main and stays down in the valleys. And if you are a train watcher you will see plenty of action along the route. First starting running this route before I-80 was completed it was the only route. After one trip over Elk Mountain in blizzard i reverted to the old route and found I made just as good a time. Just because it looks shorter on the map doesn't mean that it safer or any faster. This is just one case of where older is better. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I don't know if this is true or not, but I was in a truck stop at Rawlings, WY in 1972 and overheard a rancher from that Elk Mountain area state that the Union Pacific once had its mainline run over this region and some twenty years later (1880s) realigned its track to that route that you mentioned running through Medicine Bow rather than over the grade at Elk Mountain. <br /> <br />Then, must have been 1973, heard that because the feds didn't take the advice of the Wyoming DOT, all snow removal on I-80 through the Elk Mountain area was from then to now paid for by the feds. Again, don't know if there is anything to this, or if its just rural-myth? <br /> <br />Also, although I-80 was not completed through Elk Mountain, it was opened for traffic without its finish layer of asphalt, the top coat. This during late fall of, I think 1973 - I could be off, plus or minus a year. Anyway, deer and elk are great jumpers, but antelope are not. Well, I come around a bend to see the largest heard of antelope I'd ever seen, they were caged-in a meadow by the newly installed I-80 fencing. <br /> <br />Well, I spied a pickup truck with driver and two hunters in the back, road hunting this herd from I-80, pissed me off! The hunters were about to take their shots. I laid down on my air horn and sent that heard back up ELK Mountain. I think I'd wrecked those road hunter's shot. <br /> <br />Before anyone jumps to a conclusion, I have no reservation about hunting. I do have a conceived idea of how it should be done, and certainly not from the back of a moving pickup truck on I-80! <br /> <br />Jim <br /> <br />
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