RAILROADS TO SILVERLOADS
Vol. 14, 2009. Serving Colorado and the Four Corners since 1996
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| Smoke over the San
Juans Gunnison
Sundown
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| I've
been down to Sapinero and I've poked around the weeds and I found some tired ole emptys that I guess nobody needs. But I didn' wanta leave 'em there an' so I brought 'em back along the sparkley Gunnison on that crooked weedy track. An' I left 'em in the yards out there an' they may not go again,
'Cause there ain't
much left for us to do'cept think of where we've been. I remember Sapinero when the weeds were not so high and the rails went down the canyon under Cuerecanti's eye. We used to blast the varnish up the Cerro Summit grade and then lay around in Montrose with some cottonwoods for shade. |
I
remember drinkin' water from the spout at Cimarron an' then workin' up the canyon in the first gray light of dawn. With the rainbow trout a jumpin' at the cinders from my stack and the high walls talkin' to me as my whistle echoed back. Bringin' ore down from Lake City over timber trestles tall and from Crested Butte's capped mountain there was anthracite to haul. But I guess that's all behind me 'cause my mates are mostly gone. An' the rails don't go to Curecanti or to Cimarron. An' it seems the sun is settin' here in Gunnison again. An' it seems to me it's quiet like it's never ever been..... |
