Glenrio, part 2

Glenrio was never a large town. At its peak it only had about 200 people, but it was still a busy place since it catered to travelers on the busiest highway in the country.
  Old U.S. Highway 66 through Glenrio is a forlorn sight. It is still in good condition. It is a wide road with four lanes of traffic separated by a concrete, divider island. The pavement stripes on each side of the divider island are still there, in most places, but they are barely visible. In other places, they have faded into obscurity. It is a wide highway, but it is completely devoid of traffic! Only the occasional vehicle now travels this lonely road and most of those vehicles belong to sightseers who are exploring the old road. The wideness highway is a clear indicator of how busy highway 66 once was.
  About 1/3 of a mile after Old Highway 66 crosses into New Mexico, it becomes a dirt road. It was once paved in this area, but the Quay County Road Department removed the pavement after the highway became obsolete because the claimed it was too expensive to maintain for the minimal amount of traffic it was then carrying. Uh, I wonder how much to remove the pavement on 19 miles of road.? I'll bet it cost quite a bit of money to remove asphalt on 19 miles of road in worker's salaries plus the cost of operating the machinery. If they had just ignored the road and let it fall into disrepair, it would have been much cheaper. Also, why didn'y Quay County remove the pavement all the way to the Texas border instead of stopping about one-third mile short of the border?
 About one mile into New Mexico, the earlier alignment and the later alignment of Route 66 separate. It was 1952 when the highway was re-routed a few miles farther north. The pavement has been removed on both of these alignments.
  Between the former post office and the abandoned First Motel in Texas/Last Motel in Texas, there is a concrete obelisk about five feet tall. This is the state border. There is no engraving on this obelisk, but I am sure there some type of marking on the obelisk at one time, whether it be engraving or mounted signs. The state border goes right through a decapitated windmill. Directly across the old highway from this marker is the dirt road that one of the occupied houses is located on. It is Quay County Road A.