![]() Inside was a dim waiting room smelling of dust and being closed up, and three or four highbacked pewlike wood benches set in rows facing the train tracks and a ticket office with a single window set behind black grillwork. It was a single-story redbrick building with a green tile roof. They rode along the gravel road and passed the old vacated light plant, its high windows boarded over, and turned onto the pavement at Main Street and then bounced over the railroad tracks onto the cobblestone platform at the depot. Here is the first description that Kent Haruf provides of the town - Ike and Bobby Guthrie (aged nine and ten) are on the way to the train station in the early morning to pick up their bundle of the Denver News for delivery to residents: ![]() The tracks are paralleled by Railroad Street, itself crossed by Main Street. and Canada, it is bisected by a railway line with grain elevators and stock-loading facilities on the side. Like most towns of the kind in both the U.S. Purchased at Indigo.caHolt, Colorado is a fictional small town on the High Plains east of Denver. ![]()
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