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Steam is back on the loop and it looks like the new operator understands the pulling power as Steam Engine #12 is no longer trying to pull more cars that it can handle. They have setup a new price structure and you pay a bit more to ride the train when steam is the power over diesel power and they run the diesel most to not over utilize the steam engine. Well, you know Lisa and I paid the extra to ride behind Steam Engine #12

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National Train Day Weekend is spent at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Goosefest. I will also take my first Cab Ride in #6; video coming later...

RGS#7


RGS#6


RGS#5


RGS#2

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Work Train has arrived!!!!!!!
O Scale

• Atlas (Industrial Rail)
  • MFG#0351-1009801
  • Road#15423
  • Gondola
    
  • Road#35039
  • Stake Car
    
  • Road#30022
  • Derek
    

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Another great addition to our family game nights

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The Stourbridge Lion makes it's historical first run!!!!!!!
YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

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It's Here, It's Here, It's Here!!!!!!!
I would not have ever believed in a 1,000 years that this engine would ever be made into a model and thanks to Lionel (Heritage Series) it was been and the wife allowed me to over spend my hobby allowance and purchase one.

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Latest Addition
Atlas Trainman

• MFG#10-000-574
• Road #5015
• RS-36
  

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This weekend the CRRM had D&RGW OB Pile Driver being demonstrated while Shay#12 operated around the track. It was a cool winter day that added to show. Keep your eye out for a future RRAdventures Topic as there will be lots of shots & Video! of all the action...

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On are way home we stopped in Silver Plume; but, this time it's not about the Georgetown Loop but the Argentine Central that is in our sights. We don't have allot of time; but, we park our car at the base of the old grade and start a short hike up the mountain side. I will stop at several locations not to just take a photograph of the old grade; but, to also record the GPS and Elevation information at each point. We will only get in about a 1/2 mile before we turn around but we will be back someday to push farther and farther up the grade.

As we start to get onto the highway to drive home something catches my eye, the Georgetown Loop has a new engine...

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Day 2 of our long weekend sees the most Ghostfanning. Our first stop is in Hartsel, CO where we stop to take several photographs of the Colorado Midland Depot, Section House, and Outhouse that still survive here.

Our next stop we will spend allot of the day at which is at Fairplay in the South Park City museum. Many old builds are either original or are builds that have been moved here to preserve them as well as help create this Ghost Town type setting. Here we also find various narrow gauge equipment as well as a engine marks as Denver South Park & Pacific #22. It's not really a DSP&P engine but one of the same used by the RR which is the best this musesum could obtain. The engine is actauly from the "United Fruit Company #39 of Bananera, Guatemala"

The Depot was moved here from Buffalo Springs. It was originally (1900) a school house and today holds many items from the DSP&P, CM, and C&S railroads.
The Water Tower is also authentic, it's the RGS water tower from Ophir.

We will also walk around in Breckenridge before the rain (and snow later that night) to locate some lesser know pieces of RR history that are still here. One of those finds is this building which was built 1909 right on Main Street and was the home of J. E. Sayres; the C&S Railroad Agent of Breckenridge until 1905.

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