BNSF through Painted Desert and Petrified Forest May 2011
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Channel: John Horvath · 2012 · Travel & Events
BNSF main line, the BNSF desert raceway, runs through what was the bar in a barbell shaped National Park of Petrified Forest & Painted Desert. President Bush Jr enlarged the boundaries, eliminating the bar in the barbell, while keeping private ownership within these new boundaries. The trains are filmed in Holbrook, AZ, and Gallop, NM, two cities that serve Petrified Forest National Park. Slide show of the park is superposed over the trains. Painted desert goes far beyond park boundary. So does petrified forest. The forest is mined outside park boundaries. Uncut petrified logs can be seen from I-40 on rangeland west of park. The odd hill tops south of the road are virgin petrified tree trunks.
