Tag: south fork
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School bus crashes in Rio Grande County with no injuries
A single-vehicle crash involving a school bus on Colorado 160 in Rio Grande County resulted in none of the 13 students or the driver being injured, according to a news release by Colorado State Patrol. The crash occurred about 7:10 a.m. Thursday on a snow-covered roadway near milepost 187 within the town of South Fork.…
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‘The quirky lovechild of a bicycle and train:’ The railbike revolution is underway in Colorado
They were referred to as “velocipedes,” an early French term for bicycles. They were also called handcars, these people-powered transports that indeed looked very much like bikes atop the tracks in the 19th-century heyday of American railroading. “They were used as maintenance vehicles,” says Robert Harte. “Instead of taking a whole steam engine out ……