“Snow” shed roofing over the Interstate.
At least they put it on the north [sunnier] side. [Of course the RR already had the other side.]
The followed the Rio Grande RR along the river...which didn’t have many problems with mudslides (just snow)
I had to be at Colbran, Colorado by sunup. It was late winter, not too bad. Flights were messed up though and I missed a connection from Midland to Denver to Grand Junction so I rented a car and set out for Colbran.
In the full day that began with reports at 0530 and work I was already tired but in the drive through the canyon before the interstate I hit my limit. I swear that dang train was coming right down the middle of the highway. That is when I decided to find a place for a combat nap. I still made it to Colbran by sunup.
PS, the old truck driver’s trick of licking your finger and wetting your eyelids to keep awake does not work at all. I’ve driven clean off I-40, through a fence and wound up in a wheat field trying that one. You can only survive so many 70+ hour days. I guess others do similar things but it is an oilfield tradition to run to exhaustion.
Those were good days.