Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Karen E
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 17:19:36

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> 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.) 

Even if you take I70 into Colorado you still have to get off it when 
you're heading to ColoSpgs. (We've made that trip both this summer and 
last.) I70 goes to Denver. And, just as a sidenote, Ca+on City is home 
to Royal Gorge.

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

Hey, it's the same show that moved I40 from Arkansas to Chicago becasue, 
I guess, I90, I94, I80, I88, I55, and their various bypasses didn't 
offer _enough_ possibilities for a big wreck.


Karen E., who also discovered that Royal Gorge is no longer a half-hour 
walk across the bridge and look over the edge stop. It's now $20 per 
adult (12 and over), which includes the tram and the incline railway. 
Added four hours to our trip to Cortez...

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