Thank Goodness For Trains!

Route 66 is icy and there are no other vehicles around in case of trouble.  Can you imagine 18-wheelers loaded with fuel oil - dozens of them - trying to manage roadways in the wintertime?  Isn't it MUCH safer to have a train do it?  Not to mention more reliable!  And folks, it's cold!!  People need their fuel oil and coal delivered to power plants just to stay warm.

There are so many power lines that get between us and good photos.  Granpa and I fuss about them all the time!  But it was less than a hundred years ago that rural areas even dreamed of having electricity available to their homes.  (And Texas Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson's political foundation was his success at getting electricity to rural areas.  Unfortunately, people voted for him for the rest of his life for that one accomplishment and turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the rest of his "accomplishments."  Let that be a lesson to us.)  But back to being snowed in.  Thank the Lord for railroads and power lines - even if they mess up our photos.

Kingman is beholden to the railroads for making them such a success.  Here are a couple of links to a couple of our older posts that mention that:

http://thetravelerstwo.blogspot.com/2013/10/notes-from-museums.html

http://thetravelerstwo.blogspot.com/2013/09/mining-in-mohave-desert.html

Route 66 runs parallel to the railroad tracks.  We saw a half dozen or more trains coming and going as we continued on our snow quest.