Bail faster!! We're sinking!! (Train photo)

rockymountainroads.com wrote:
Located at a left exit along Interstate 80/U.S. 30 near Milepost 333 (between the Buford interchange and the Vedauwoo Road/Ames Monument interchange) is the "Tree Rock." A limber pine tree grows here from a crack in the large granite boulder. One of the legends of the railroad construction was that the railroad was aligned specifically to pass by the Tree Rock, so that railroad engineers could throw buckets of water onto the tree to facilitate its growth. The railroad passed Tree Rock between 1869 and 1901; it was realigned away from the tree. The age of the tree and rock could date many years; the rock is from the Precambrian Era and might be over a billion years old. The limber pine can be up to 2,000 years old, although this specimen is probably younger.