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A week of riding tourist trains

Prototypes
#1

Train number one was a narrow gauge shay in Felton near Santa Cruz

Train number two was the Felton to Santa Cruz beach train behind a CF7 2641 a former ATSF covered wagon.

Train number three was an excellent lunch on the Napa Valley Wine Train

Train number four was another narrow gauge shay near Yosemite, was able to get a cab ride on this one.

And finally train number four was the Virgina and Truckee behind none other than McCloud River Railroad #18. This was interesting to ride on new track on a tourist line. That was about all we could cram into one week,

#2

Wow…what a great week you had !
Ralph

#3

Very nice pictures. You had fun!!!

Doc Tom

#4

Grate Photos… tks’ for sharing.

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#5

Awesome! You’re very fortunate to get to visit all those places!

#6

Sounds like my kind of week. Did something similar in the southwest about 12 years ago. Thanks for the pictures :slight_smile:

#7

Looks like LOTS of FUN … . . :slight_smile:

#8

It was a bit of fun, the biggest challenge of course is scheduling. We are looking at Arizona/New Mexico adventure maybe, which we did years ago, but you can never get too much of the Cumbres & Toltec.

#9
John Miller said:
...you can never get too much of the Cumbres & Toltec.
I agree. Hopefully it will operate next season. I hear the current operator has called it quits.
#10

@Jon et all. The Durango & Silverton RR has been hired by CO. & NM to take over the daily ops. of the C&T. They have been running it daily all summer long…

#11

OK, either the info I have is old, or it’s that they opted out for next season. I didn’t ask for details; it just came up in conversation over the weekend.

#12

What nice crisp photos of very interesting subjects. #4 and #5 are exceptional clarity in my opinion. You are a talented photographer,
What did you use for a camera?
Todd

#13

@Jon. I will check into it. The C&T has such a operator history, that as far as history goes, anything that is change, is more the normal, then any kind of stability in the opps.

#14

Lets hope the C&T continues to run, I’ve ridden it twice and wouldn’t mind a third go at it.

Todd, the photos were shot with a Canon Mark II. The last day of the trip the shutter failed at just about 50k images… fortunately Canon has a repair shop in SoCal.