In pic # 1: This is the double-wide in the 21st Century where Clarence's birth family live; parents Charley and Alice, and older siblings Jack and Rhonda. The home is a mile or two southwest of the town of Vaughn. In the background a BNSF train is traveling along the fly-over which is a built up grade overpass where the BNSF Railroad passes above the Union Pacific Railroad (that particular UP line formally being a Southern Pacific line until UP bought out SP a few decades ago). https://youtu.be/1bCAqIPO5Kw?t=134
The cars on the 4 lane Highway 54/60 are a Nissan Juke and a Toyota Prius.
In pic # 2: This is that same parcel of land as it appeared during the time era around 1960. It would be many years before that double-wide would be there. In the year 1960, Clarence's biological parents and biological grandparents have not yet been born. In the background, a Santa Fe freight train is headed westbound through Vaughn (there were no intermodal container trains back in those days). This was also before the railroad fly-over in Vaughn was built, thus what was then the Santa Fe Railroad and what was then the Southern Pacific Railroad crossed each other as a simple junction...And in those days, there was always a caboose at the back end of a freight train. Highway 54 was a two lane highway back then. The two vehicles shown on Highway 54 are a 1957 Plymouth and a 1955 International Harvester pick-up truck.
I did present things to the best of what I could find out through research sources that were available anyway.
As far as so much space, Wyoming is even more rural than New Mexico is...I've been through Wyoming in August of 2013, and through much of the central and eastern part of New Mexico in December of 2013. There are parts of Wyoming where you travel for many miles, and there is nothing but highway, land and natural rock formations.
I did present things to the best of what I could find out through research sources that were availab
