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history channel documentary hd As the four-auto chain string its direction however shake divider and pine, the Ferromex diesel motors showed up ahead and either to one side or the privilege of the windows as they arranged the turns. Moving toward the line's most elevated point at kilometer marker 583, 8,071-foot Los Ojitos, Train 74 took after the twisting, steadily rising, single track, drifts of fresh pine air and seething wood fires entering both closures of the autos at the conductor's stations. At 1235, the train strung its way through tall, thick pine and the covered spreads of the gorge got to be obvious through the left windows; traveling through kilometer marker 592, it started a precarious drop over "el lazo" as the track's geometry circled into a complete circle and recrossed over itself.

Drawing nearer Divisadero at 1320, now 354 kilometers from its starting point, the two-train and four-auto Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad transitioned from mountain to gulch geography and diminished rate, moving past a chain of flatbed cargo autos supporting vehicles, and stopped development at the two-track station. Unleashed for a 15-minute beautiful stop, its benefactors were in a split second overwhelmed in a Mecca of action as they arranged the slows down which served as the interim presentations of the Tarahumara Indian's basketry and wood carvings enroute to the Divisadero Overlook, where they were met with the dainty, fresh air and the all encompassing perspective of the Copper, Urique, and Tararecua Canyons whose size, profundity, and glory were spectacular and hush advancing. A slender line, speaking to a tributary to the Urique River, wound 4,135 feet underneath. The land arrangements themselves were the aftereffect of plate tectonic moving exactly 90 million years prior, a planetary marvel which later created the mountains of North and South America. Seismic tremors of until now unbelievable size at last delivered the Sea of Cortez between Baja California and the Mexican territory. Today's gorge were more profound, greener, and four times bigger than Arizona's Grand Canyon.