Month: June 2017

Tunneling Through the Canadian Rockies

When tourists drive the beautiful route taking them over Rogers Pass in the Canadian Rockies they probably don’t appreciate the problems caused to railway transportation by this mountain range. In 1883, Canadian Pacific Railway laid a single track that wound through the narrow Illecillewaet Valley and laboriously twisted up and […]

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Abo Canyon, Where Trains Never Stop

New Mexico is a fabulous mix of ranches, deserts, and mountains. Many RVers travelling to the Grand Canyon will pass over I-40, and if they are heading to Southern Arizona may cut across sw on Route 60 from Vaughn to Mountainair and on into the Valley of the Rio Grande. […]

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