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)
I need to get up there one of these days! Sounds like a neat place, and very nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment. I'm having trouble learning to use dropbucket properly.
DeleteThat looks like a nice little museum!
ReplyDeleteDrop bucket. What is that? Am I missing some techno savvy?
ReplyDeleteDropbucket is a photo sharing thingy. Allows you to share photos with higher resolution than blogspot allows.
DeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteDidn't see that. They were giving rides on the largest Galloping Goose.
DeleteI was there a year ago Sept.
ReplyDeleteThey were raising steam in one of the engines.
Pure bliss.
I don't visit often enough.
DeleteThe UP is getting #844 ready for a run to Tenn.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/details.shtml