Reply To: Colorado peach shipping in ART wood reefers

[louanne.lewandowski]

Thank you for this link, Charlie.

Growing up in Colorado in the early 1960s, the annual Grand Valley peach season was something to look forward to. For about a month we ate a lot of peaches that were ripe and delicious. Peaches today might be available year-around, but are depressingly wooden and tasteless every time I erroneously give in to the urge to buy some.

Rio Grande locations that are obvious in this film include Grand Junction, Palisade, DeBeque, West Canyon (west of Glenwood Springs, on the original alignment on the north side of the Colorado River), Glenwood Canyon (vicinity of Allen), Dotsero, and North Yard (Denver). The train scenes are not in strict geographic order from west to east, but bounce around somewhat. I can’t identify any of the steam engines, but FTs are clearly seen.

There’s what appears to me (not an old-car expert) to be a 1951 Ford truck in one scene carrying a re-ice machine, and it looks new, so that would likely be the year this film is taken.

Mark Hemphill