Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : npardue
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 16:44:03

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er


Sharon wrote:
> > OK, but that still doesn't explain why they would have been doing
> > that.  If they wanted to get from Chicago to Colorado in the shortest
> > amount of time, they should have been on an interstate.  And I-80,
> > which goes from Chicago to at least Reno, IS a 4-lane interstate (two
> > lanes each way), and looked nothing like that.
>
> They weren't going from Chicago to Colorado. The first part of the trip was
> to the first hospital in a small town in I think Iowa.??

Davenport.  Not exactly a small town. (Part of the quad cities, which
straddle the Iowa/Illinois border.)

[And Naomi whips out her road atlas.]

Canon City is a real place. It's just west of Pueblo, in south central
Colorado. To get there they would have had to, at some point. leave the
interstate.  You could get there almost entirely via interstate by
taking I80 to Denver, and then I25 south to Pueblo. However, it's a bit
more direct (if not quite as fast probably) to swing south in western
Nebraska and pick up I70 in Kansas. (Which would then run them into
Colorado Springs.) WHich may have been what they did.  They talked
about returning to North Platte after the accident, so maybe they were
on US83 which runs south from North Platte to Colby, KS, where it joins
I70. Alternatively, US30 runs parallel to I80 through much of Nebraska.
Maybe, for some reason, (road construction?) they decided to take US30
rather than the interstate.
>
Naomi

> Other than that, it *is* a tv show which tends to take dramatic license.
> 
> -Sharon

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