Visited the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO today. Lots of memories growing up along the Denver and Rio Grande when my father was a section foreman for 10 years.
First hit of nostalgia, the smell of creosoted railroad ties. The second, motorcars that I got to ride on as a kid.
Few things are securely locked and the only guards are volunteers. One can imagine Murphy's Law running amok. http://lagniappeslair.blogspot.com/2016/10/water-dogs.html
However, one of his relatives must have been visiting.
Admittedly the "Keep" part is hard to read but the "Off" s quite clear.
Rather than clutter the blog, pictures are available on Dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/home/CO%20Rail%20Museum
The various "Galloping Goose" units are no prize for cosmetic construction, just hell for stout, and still usable. Rides were available on one of them today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar)
9 comments:
I need to get up there one of these days! Sounds like a neat place, and very nice pictures!
Thanks for the compliment. I'm having trouble learning to use dropbucket properly.
That looks like a nice little museum!
Drop bucket. What is that? Am I missing some techno savvy?
Dropbucket is a photo sharing thingy. Allows you to share photos with higher resolution than blogspot allows.
I've visited the Museum several times over the last forty years. Last time I was there, they had Thomas the tank Engine hauling people around. Don't know if they still do that.
Didn't see that. They were giving rides on the largest Galloping Goose.
I was there a year ago Sept.
They were raising steam in one of the engines.
Pure bliss.
I don't visit often enough.
The UP is getting #844 ready for a run to Tenn.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/details.shtml
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