Comments | kevin_standlee: A Day At the Museum

kevin_standlee

A Day At the Museum

May 30, 2016 21:34

On Sunday, Lisa and I went to the Nevada State Railroad Museum, where they were all steamed up for Memorial Day Weekend. There aren't a lot of places where you can see two steam locomotives in two different gauges working simultaneously, but this was one of them.

( Train Pictures and Video )

museum, trains, kuma bear, lisa

Comments 6

msconduct May 31 2016, 05:22:32 UTC

In Auckland we have a 7.4 km heritage steam railway which is also called Glenbrook. Quite a coincidence! I was wondering if it was a train term of some sort, but our Glenbrook is in fact one of the stations the train operates between, not the name of the train, so it does look like pure coincidence.

clothsprogs May 31 2016, 05:49:26 UTC

What a great way to start my day - trains and videos of them too!!

Thanks for sharing this.

Teddy

rono_60103 June 1 2016, 00:33:21 UTC

Thinking about it, I've taken three trips in steam powered trains (and too many to count in diesel-electric powered trains; thanks to over a year of commuting by train in San Diego and multiple trips to and from downtown Chicago). But all three of my steam train trips have been on narrow gage - actually on two stretches of the former D&RGW narrow gage line that once ran from Antonito Colorado to Silverton Colorado (or maybe all the way around nearly to Denver; I'm not sure if the train actually ran from Silverton to Ouray)

kevin_standlee June 1 2016, 01:20:59 UTC

Sounds like you have been on both the Durango & Silverton and the Cumbres & Toltec. The Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge lines, along with the Rio Grande Southern (Durango to Ridgeway) formed a (mostly) narrow-gauge loop (map at the D&RG Wikipedia article shows this pretty well.

Lisa and I want to ride the New Mexico narrow-gauge lines. Maybe if there's a Westercon in Albuquerque someday....

rono_60103 June 1 2016, 02:16:43 UTC

Ding! Ding! Ding! - exactly.

I road the C&TSRR from Chama to (probably) Osier and back in around 1971 or 1972 (I was about 5, before my younger sister was born), and from Chama to Antonito in 2004, and the D&SNG around 1982 or 1983.

I'm working on a SMOFCon (at least in the back of my head) first. Before I head up another convention that needs to be bid at more than itself, I'd need a much larger bid committee. I also need to get better acquainted with Albuquerque Fandom before I bring any traveling con here.

nojay June 2 2016, 00:22:19 UTC

That bit about Amy monitoring the water level in Glenbrook's boiler reminded me of something I read in a Royal Navy handbook for engineering artificers my father had from his time in the Navy during WWII. It specified that each boiler on a ship had to have a qualified watch-stander on duty to monitor the water levels at all times while the boiler was being fired and even the captain could not relieve that watch-stander from duty unless another qualified watch-stander could immediately replace them.