To Shiny Rails

We literally stumbled onto the west entrance to Moffat Tunnel during our little getaway to Winter Park, CO. Turns out, the portal is right next to the Winter Park Resort. I also got a chance to photograph the Fraser-Winter Park rail station, but alas no trains came by while there. And last, but not least, we visited the Moffat Road Railroad Museum in Granby, CO. All the pics are here.

Big day! Off to the Georgetown Loop Railroad to meet up with the Visalia (CA) cousins for a train ride. What a hoot! Lynn had been trying to tell me that we were there (family reunion) with my parents, sister, her kids, and our own very young children way back when, but absolutely nothing was coming to mind. Even when we got there nothing seemed in the least familiar. Until we got to Silver Plume, the other end of the rail line. And there was the yard where we walked along the rails! Looked exactly like a scene in my mind that I could not place. We were here almost exactly 30 years ago! After the train ride, we went to downtown, historic Georgetown to stroll around a little, had some ice cream (eat dessert first!), and had lunch at Cooper’s on the Creek. All the day’s photos are here.

Last year I started putting together the newsletter for the Rocky Mountain Railroad Heritage Society (RMRHS) along with creating and maintaining their website. I just posted the Summer 2021 edition: https://rmrhs.org/newsletter.html.

Thanks to Karl Hovanitz (Bitter Creek Western Railroad), the Foster family got a tour today of the Norgrove Railway being built just south of Arroyo Grande, CA off El Campo Road. Here’s a website address: https://norgrovetraintours.com/. They’re doing some incredible restoration activity of (very) old equipment and putting down a brand new 600mm track. They’re setting up for rides and events!

Probably the last Parlor Car Chat (the Museum is reopening). It’s here.

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