Tag: Utah

Handsome freight train engineer in his late forties with short brown hair graying at the temples, a short beard and gray-blue eyes standing beside a big orange and black locomotive in a Colorado rail yard at golden hour

I Found a 15-Year-Old Boy Hiding in the Nose of My Locomotive, 200 Miles From Anywhere in the Rocky Mountains. He Said If I Stopped the Train, He’d Jump

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I drive freight trains through the Rocky Mountains. Ten thousand tons, two miles long, through tunnels and canyons where no road goes. One night, in the middle of the Moffat Tunnel route, my conductor opened the nose door of the lead locomotive and found a boy curled up inside with a backpack and a black eye.

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Handsome man in his late forties with light brown hair, short beard and blue eyes standing by a wooden fence in a green Utah valley with mountains behind him at golden hour

I’m Allergic to Bees. Deathly Allergic. So Naturally I Agreed to Spend the Summer Helping the Beekeeper Next Door Save 2 Million of Them

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Two years ago, a single bee sting put me in the hospital for three days. I carry two EpiPens everywhere. Then a widowed beekeeper moved onto the farm next to mine in Cache Valley, Utah, a hailstorm wrecked her hives, and she needed a strong pair of hands for one summer. Mine were the only ones available.

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