#121 is usually through Stuart well before dawn, but a derailment in City Point has delayed this morning's southbound fleet. This was the first of three trains through town in a 90 minute span.
Traversing remote Cascade Canyon at milepost 477, a Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train follows the Animas River east (south) of Cascade, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 30, 2006.
Amtrack heads north just before the Bear Mountain Bridge with a remnant of the ice flows sitting ashore and route 202 seen near the top of the photograph.
Night time sets in with a freight heading over the Kingston trestle and the Sargasso Sea tug coming in for the night. In 2006 the Sargasso Sea was acquired by K-Sea Transportation Partnership of... (more)