LOL!!!!!!!
Lot's of BNSF and UP in my little corner of the world. Maybe this will help motivate you deeper...
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
My Blog
Stourbridge Lion: You just had to post more pictures of BNSF engines.
How did you know that I have been thinking of a way to incorporate some BNSF or BN units into my model train world?
Now I have to think more about it.
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
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Golden BNSF Yard Before heading home I make a stop at the BNSF Yard that is near the museum across from Coor's on what is called Depot Street off of 10th Street. I need to learn more about this area of Golden and it's RR history...
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Thanks Ken!
I enjoy sharing trip reports on the places I have traveled too as well as placed like this that are close to home.
Darren, thanks for the great photos. I had never seen this much of the GG before. It was cool to see all of the details.
Did I happen to mention that I took a CAB RIDE! in Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose Work Car #6 and had a working camcorder that I kept running the entire time around the loop as well as caught some action by all four as they went around the loop too?
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I also took these few shots of other equipment as well... - - -
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RGS#2 Rio Grande Southern, Narrow Gauge. Built by RGS Railway Shop in 1931 using a Pierce Arrow 80 Body a 6 Cylinder Engine. Replaced Passenger Train between Ridgway and Telluride. - -
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Rio Grande Southern, Narrow Gauge. Built by RGS Railway Shop in 1933 using a Pierce Arrow Body and Engine. Freight compartment replaced with Wayne Bus Co. body for passenger use in 1946. Engine later replaced with a surplus WWII GMC engine. Rebuilt again in 1998 and runs regularly on the Cumbres & Toltec and the Durango & Silverton lines. - - On loan from Dolores for this event
Here are a couple of detail shots I took of #6... -
RGS#6 Rio Grande Southern, Narrow Gauge. Built by RGS Railway Shop in 1934 using a Pierce Arrow 36 Body and a Pierce Six Cylinder. Used as a Work Car. - -
Here are a couple of detail shots I took as well... -
RGS#7 Rio Grande Southern, Narrow Gauge. Built by RGS Railway Shop in 1936 using a Pierce Arrow 80 Body a Ford V-8 Engine. Freight compartment converted to passenger use in 1950 using Ex-Denver Tramway Streetcar Seats. - -
National Train Day Weekend is spent at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Goosefest 2010; here are the star of the event! #7 #6 #5 #2
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