Merry Christmas! "Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world." -C.S. Lewis
"Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life." -Corrie Ten Boom
Happy Hanukkah! (Our family enjoys celebrating both holidays :) "The Chanukah story still lives, still inspires, telling not just us but the world that though tyranny exists, freedom, with God’s help, will always win the final battle." -Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
I recently watched a video of a 1993 rotary snowplow trip on the Cumbres and Toltec and found myself imagining it actually occurring on the eastern ascent to the Alpine Tunnel. I took a few screenshots from the video and labeled them with sites along the C&S between Hancock and East Portal that they resemble.
There are, of course, amazing photos of actual C&S rotaries, but it was fun to look at this video to see a rotary in color and in motion in the video.
April 1902, westbound, just after rounding Sawmill Curve.
April 1902, the rotary plows through snow drifts roughly one mile west of Hancock.
April 1902, westbound, one mile from the east portal, the plow train emerges from wooded right-of-way onto the shelf track and begins to fight a large snow drift.
For the full video, watch below:
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