Train Mountain 2009

From here on the pictures are mixed from several different days.

Looking down on two loops of the grade from a third.

A poor dead MoPac caboose.

The comfort station at the end of the galaxy. A very welcome sight after a couple of hours on the train,

Miles' turn

LALS riders supervising filling the loco at the comfort stop - the gas tank isn't big enough to get round this track.

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Patricia Andersen, nee Fowler, visited on her way south.

Boarding from the main station.

And off for a two hour MoPac ride

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Steamers at the loading tracks.

Heavy metal.