Tuesday Aug 19 2008
Along the Arkansas River
Today’s Colorado slide from the past takes us down to the banks of the Arkansas River near Cotopaxi on the now closed ex-D&RGW Tennessee Pass Line. A loaded taconite ore train is westbound in August of 1998 with a total of six SP AC4400’s split into groups of two’s on the point and midtrain and on the rear.
The Arkansas River still runs placidly through this canyon, but the rusted rails have not felt the weight of a train in many years now.
