Gourds Growing on the Carrizo Gorge Railroad Tracks Near the Abandoned Dos Cabezas Railroad Siding
While hiking on the railroad tracks, I noticed these gourds or squashes growing on green, leafy vines. Stepping on them proved them to be hollow and full of seeds. I am sure the Indians used these gourds as food and pottery. It’s interesting how they only seemed to be growing on the tracks — and only in two spots in the approximate two miles I hiked.
sweet:DD
Actually, those gourds aren’t native. They probably came from a leaking grain car. They’re incredibly invasive. If you go out there again, try to get rid of a few so they don’t keep growing.
The track is not abandoned, it is still in use. If you look at the rails, they are silver on top, obviously still used. And those hopper cars did not fly out there. They are new and were put there by a train. Since the operations center for Carrizo Gorge is at Jacumba, the locomotives had to come east from there to get to Dos Cabezas, where this video was shot. The gourds do grow away from the tracks in that area, but they are not easy to find.
awesome video
good place for a Western