On The West Side Of Prineville, OR, at WayPt = 354 =>
….Traffic Is Heavy and Fast Where Rt-126 Branches off of US-26.

….“We arrive in Prineville Junction with only a few hours of daylight left. We’re at the intersection with Highway 97, where we’ll turn south, and I fill up the tank at the corner and then am so tired I go around in back and sit on the yellow-painted cement curb with my feet in the gravel and the last rays of the sun flaring through the trees into my eyes. “ (Cont.Next)

Photo on West side of Prineville, OR. As discussed in the previous photo => The above ZMM Passage takes place in Prineville Junction, OR some 17 miles West of /\ Above /\ Photo.
….And to get to Prineville Junction, OR, the ZMM Route follows the O’Neil Highway, Rt-370, in the scenic Crooked River Valley, and somewhat parallels the route of the Prineville Railroad.
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Since Prineville Junction, OR Is No Longer On Maps, Nor Can Be Hardly Found By Google, Where Just EXACTLY Is It?
In This Satellite View => The Red-Brown Triangle, Just Right Of Center, Marks The Location Of The Railroad Tracks for the Literal “Junction” Of:=> The City of Prineville’s Own Railroad Track, there to join the North-South tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and apparently also the-Union Pacific Railroad.
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In The Satellite Image, You Can See Where The Railroad Track =>
….1) From the North switches into a curved track that goes EastNorhteast. AND
….2) From the South switches into a curved track that joins into 1) above.
….3) Also See => The O’Neill Highway (Rt-370) which goes “a back country byway” all the way From Prineville, OR … To … Prineville Junction, OR and connects to US-97.

NOTE: This Rt-370, is practically the only road Robert Pirsig in 1968 could have used to travel from Prineville, OR and efficiently arrive at US-97 near to Prineville Junction.
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NEW TOPIC:
….Typically, the Narrator uses the poetic content of town names to emphasize his story. I have already discussed the poetics of word “Prineville”. Question: What “poetics” are being used here with the word “Junction”.

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(Photo =113-1319cb ...... ZMM Page = 293 ...... WayPt = 354i ~3250ft. Photo at WayPt = 354k 2881ft)