Why do I always find interesting train trips to do in other countries and have to add yet another museum to the BUCKET LIST?
Now I have to go to New Jersey then NYC. First to see NOT one but 2 GG1 Locomotives, then catch the museum train down the Hudson River or even go to Chicago.
https://www.tripsavvy.com/hudson-river-rail-historic-train-cars-7097871
And does @rooster have one of these beauties?
Interesting video. Not real sure why he talks fast as an auctioneer to get his point across, but nice video.
Not practically an electric locomotive fan, but the GG-1 I find most interesting.
Thanks
Yes I too find that annoying. Going, going, gone! 
Something for the North Americans, and those hesitant to try Amtrak.
Holy cow, what a trip that would be.
For the full 3-day run from Frisco to Denver, all my wife and I would need to do is either empty out our IRA’s for the $46,500, or find four other couples willing to spend a mere $11.6k, or 8 couples to spend $8.5k, and we’d travel free. Hmmmm…
There are apparently other providers, such as…
There is another way to do the trip and they actually pay you. Best of all you arrive at the station just a little bit ahead of the other.
$22,000???
I’ll take my car thank you! Being from NA-VAD-DA, not NA-VEH-DA, it was nice to see home in the video. Though I am from a place near Carson City, I did live in Reno for a time. Always had a spot in my heart for Truckee, a real cool place to visit.
Good video.
I’m in but it won’t give Linda anyone to talk with. My custom Stormy Daniels blow up doll doesn’t say much. However she can go crazy like sticking her head out the window at 85mph or wind surfing on the observation car railing. If she gets too outta control I’ll just pull the emergency dump valve and put her in the medicine cabinet of my cabin for the rest of the trip.
Cliff, I suspect agreeing to Rooster’s suggestion, things might get out of hand.
…Gale, Rayne, Snowy & Monsoon Daniels.
You can’t un-see it now, can you?
I still want to know how Rooster got away with removing the window to get that shot.
I’d love to take the Rocky Mountaineer trip, but its way out of my price range. One way only Denver to Moab or Moab to Denver including meals and overnight 5 star hotel stays. You need to provide your own transportation to or from Moab.
A few years ago we did manage to take the Royal Gorge train. We did the first class dining car. The meal was great and the views even better. Fares in the hundreds, not thousands!
Just note that Jon’s photo is the Royal Gorge train. The Rocky Mountaineer has no open viewing cars, and I was surprised to discover it is a non-corridor train - you can only move around your own coach. Read the reviews before you try it.
I’d love to do the Rocky Mountaineer as well, but it sits well beyond what we can reasonably justify. For us, the combined cost of travel to get two seats on a three-day railway experience simply doesn’t align with our reality. I’m not quite sure what to call the level of disposable income that is required for a party of four to commandeer two carriages for three days. Good on him for posting the video, otherwise I would not have known about many of these train rides.
However, after watching this YouTuber tour multiple high-end rail journeys, I’ve realised I don’t just have a bucket list — I have a leaking bucket list, and apparently, it comes fully accessorised.
Pete,
Just a note …Clean your glasses and read the whole post before commenting ?
What’s your beef? The first paragraph talks about Rocky Mountaineer, and the second talks about the Royal Gorge, and the photos are not labelled. Go clean your own glasses.
Renting the caboose on the C&TSRR is around $2500 if I recall, and holds 12 people.
Sure is. And right there is Donner Lake, and the museum and meadow/marsh trails.
If you drive up towards Donner Pass for ~15 minutes, you get to Rainbow Bridge, ancient petroglyphs, original Central Pacific Summit Tunnel (which you can walk through), with its massive SP upgrades (ditto), between which is the amazing “China Wall” built by Chinese men in the original CP build. All within one parking spot. Love that place…
Whilst the golden age of travel looks expensively fun, getting to ride a special freight train that drops you and your personal box car for a week of rail-camping really appeals to me.
There is no mention of what this used cost in the article. (link above)
Dave Taylor can you add to this story?
The Patrick Henry makes the Rocky Mountaineer look like Amtrak. its a BMW trip, as in Broke My Wallet. $$$$, I stick with Antrak
