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Passenger Trains > The Overland Route from the Window of a TrainDate: 04/01/20 04:41 The Overland Route from the Window of a Train Author: bandob Taken from the California Zephyr #6 on one of its Wyomiing Detours because of trackwork on the former Rio Grande some years ago.
1) Devil's Slide, near the Utah-Wyoming border. 2) Wyoming farm scene. 3) The Green River. B&OBill    Date: 04/01/20 04:42 Re: The Overland Route from the Window of a Train Author: bandob 1) Where the buffalo roam.
2) Desert flats 3) Laramie. B&OBill    Date: 04/01/20 11:26 Re: The Overland Route from the Window of a Train Author: FallsCity Isn't it "Devils Spine"?
Date: 04/01/20 11:34 Re: The Overland Route from the Window of a Train Author: bandob No, Falls City, I always heard it called Slide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Slide_(Utah) B&OBill Date: 04/01/20 16:09 Re: The Overland Route from the Window of a Train Author: FallsCity I'll be darned. One of my family members told me as child "spine" and it always made sense to me in the multiple times over 65 years I've gone by it on the train.
As I look at your beautiful photograph I understand my confusion--it looks like the spine of a giant devil skeleton face down. More research today gave me the clear reason why it was labeled a slide by the new railroad. |