And You’re Gonna Get a Shiver, When You Check Out The River...
With a one-two punch of the COVID Pandemic and The Elk Creek Bridge being washed out, action shots of The Durango and Silverton will be hard to come by in 2020. So, sometimes, you have to make your shot. Here we see 493 easing off the famed High Line and into the yard limits of Rockwood, this season’s terminus for the Durango Train.
Fun Fact, though the famed line in the song is “400 feet straight down [to the Animas River]”, the drop is not as severe as C.W. McCall sang.