Tennessee Pass—2015 Like a grave site bouquet, flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015. A look into the east portal of the summit tunnel reveals a bright light to the west, which unfortunately, is just the other end of an empty and silent bore. Will a train ever run here again? A cool breeze drifting from the dark bore seems to be saying “it’ll be a cold day in hell…”
