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ANZA-BORREGO SOUTH : Rail Curve
The Bend in the Railroad
If would seem a simple matter. If you wanted to build a railroad, and it
had to go from Ocotillo to Dos Cabezas, you would lay the tracks directly
from one place to the other, over the shortest distance. But there is a
difference in elevation between the two places, and so the railroad builders
put a large bend in the railroad to make the change more gradual than a
direct route.
The bend is in an area that hurricanes Kathleen and Doreen ravaged in 1976
and 1977. You can still see some of the wreckage to tracks and drainpipes.
The many smoke trees in the wash were probably started when floodwaters
germinated their seeds.
Drain-pipe Wreckage
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