If you haven’t seen “the Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, you need to borrow it, rent it, or figure out how to watch it online. Its the story of men having dreams and living them out before they die.
Have you got things you want to see, places you want to go, things you want to accomplish? Times passing, you need to get at it. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. You may not accomplish it all, but you might as well slide in to the hole in the ground, screaming, “what a great ride!”. Isn’t that what a model railroad is? Dreams your wanting to build. And isn’t there always the next layout?
So we did a little of the Alaska Railroad. We went basically around Mt. McKinley, Mt Denali or “the Tall One”. Whatever you want to call it. Anyway, it was a great train ride and makes me want to do more.
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Another item for the “Bucket List” -
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I think I’d like to ride all of the Alaska Railroad. We stopped in Anchorage on our cruise and Roger and I immediately headed for the Alaska Railroad Station and Headquarters. Beautiful, well maintained railroad and buildings. Got talking to the ticket agent and you can ride the whole railroad from Seward to Fairbanks in 2 days. You drive to Anchorage, get on the train early in the morning and head south to Seward. Catch the afternoon train back to Anchorage, stay on our transfer to another train and ride up to Fairbanks. In Fairbanks, you’d have to get a hotel room for the night, because there are no sleepers and then ride south back to Anchorage from Fairbanks the next morning. First class operations, all dome cars and a dinner on every train. Two people, $800 in September with 2017 fairs, not counting food or overnight lodging.
This is a “Flag Stop” Railroad, you’ll share the rails with plywood and canoes. And the next stop may be round the bend, much like our Sudbury/White River trip in Canada many years ago on the RDC’s. So far, I haven’t been able to get any guarentee, they’ll let me have throttle time.
Anyway, consider it for an item to add to your “bucket list”.
Here’s a link to wet your appetite.
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https://www.alaskarailroad.com/
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What’s on your bucket list?