During Wednesday morning a BNSF coal train derailed several miles south of Colorado Springs, blocking both mainlines.
Linked article contains several photographs.http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/20352899.html
dc:
Old Santa Fe MP 651-652 (Current MP 86-88) between Crews and Fountain near the old North Fountain crossover (originally a crossing frog)....they just went by the HBD at MP 86.1...
Your memory is correct, the two lines are about 400 feet apart before they split wide going through Fountain. The locals probably have no idea what blew up there in May 14, 1888.
Muddy one, I thought I was the only remaining eye witness,
Yes, I know about the EXPLOSION which occurred on the date you mention.
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
http://www.atsfry.com/EasternArchive/Meades/mead102b.htm
Tells it better than I ever could have. (slightly different than what I was told as a new-hire)
(and none of Chico's kids are young pups anymore....Eyewitness? say Hi! to Cyrus K then...)
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