Linda and I had the pleasure of visiting Jim & Jo Ann Kottkamp’s Ridgway Grande Scenic Railway yesterday.
We’d just missed Bruce and Jean Chandler there, but I’d brought Bruce’s beautiful coach and pulled it behind Jim’s #41 which he was kind enough to let me run. Jack Thompson ran his #29 and train, Pete Thornton his live steam #42, and Jim was switching tankers with his #463.
No great videography here, as usual for me; just a candid pan of all these trains running, while I was trying not to run into anything with mine.
Watch for Jim’s new Ames hydroelectric plant in the foreground near the beginning, a very accurate model of (IIRC) Colorado’s first such power plant.
As always, the mountains and foliage are stunning on this layout!
Toward the end, check out Pete’s shortened and lengthened Aristo coaches in service.
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