This morning we walked downtown and watched the train coming westward from Chihuahua on its way to Los Mochis. The poor people getting on and off had to do scurry into the station or get drenched. We were just watching so stayed under cover. I got video of the train arriving and leaving again.
After checking out and having a last great meal at the hotel restaurant (Caro told the cook that the smells were just like her home when growing up) we got a ride to the train station to catch the train going eastward to our destination. While waiting we were talking to our shuttle driver and he had a photo of a train derailment. This had happened on the tracks we had come over earlier on Monday when our train ride was shortened. We had heard on Tuesday morning that both directions were closed due to problems caused by heavy rains. We were going through heavy rain on Monday before we were bused to Creel. I think there is a good chance that it was the train that dropped us off and had to reverse its direction back to Los Mochis with the people bused in from Chihuahua that derailed. Those people will have stories!
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| Photo of a photo of train derailment |
The trains started running after two complete days of cancellations on the very day we were scheduled to leave. Talk about lucky. Four hours into our run we stopped in the middle of no where because the tracks were getting emergency repairs again in the same location that forced the people on Monday to get bused.
We made it to our hotel by 11 PM and I hit the sack immediately.
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