To Shiny Rails

Enjoyed a train ride and a day in Santa Barbara. Pictures include: SP 142 (an old private/business car now on display at the Santa Barbara station), action in the harbor (including a flipped over sailboat student), the aquarium and marine center on the pier, and the train trip home.

These pictures are on SmugMug: http://jf2.smugmug.com/gallery/8727666_HhPsM#577144338_4YVEE

By the end of Dad’s last visit, Fosterville was practically complete, the railhead was halfway through the tunnel to the backyard, and a mining operation was going in on a nearby mountainside.

The page is here: http://www.jf2.com/pbjrr/090619.html

I organized and led a chapel car event for my church and involving the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. We met at 9:00am at the headquarters of the Santa Maria Valley Railroad (at the site of the old sugar mill in Betteravia) for a continental breakfast and slide show presentation by Barry Hague and me called “This Train Is Bound for Glory”. Following the presentation, we boarded the La Condesa, a vintage Pullman observation car, for a train ride along the SMVRR, including an en-route worship service led by Pastor David Burgeson and Rev. Bill Foster.

The pics (and some info) are here: http://www.worshipweekly.com/090606.html