To Shiny Rails

This was today’s Parlor Car Chat for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum. There was a bonus feature at the end – a brief discussion of the “real” 150th Golden Spike ceremony today in Strasburg, CO.

This was today’s Parlor Car Chat for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum.

While the boys caught fish in Palmer Lake, I caught this UP Heritage Fleet locomotive #1989 rolling by Palmer Lake with a unit train of windmill blades. Thanks to the guys on the bridge that let me know it was coming. I noted a bunch of railfan-looking guys with cameras (you know the look) on the pedestrian bridge over the tracks to the lake and asked if anything special was coming. They didn’t say what, but they did say it was three trains away coming from the north. It came by a little over an hour later and was indeed the third train to go by. You should always keep your radio scanner in the car.

This was today’s Parlor Car Chat for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum.

This was today’s Parlor Car Chat for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum.

Take a slide-show tour of the Pacific Harbor Line and the Ports of L.A./Long Beach as Jamie saw it in 2009 and 2015. If time permits, we’ll take a ride on the rails down to San Diego. The video/audio recording is here.