Travel, Traveling, and Road Trips – Southwest Adventure 2016
The start of my series talking about my experiences on a 2 week road trip around the American Southwest.
Departure
Durango, Co Durango and Silverton K-28 class steam locomotive 473 departs Durango Depot with the morning’s first train.
Aspen
La Plata County, Co Aspens along the Animas river valley.
Dried Dirt
Grand Canyon, Az Who thinks about the dirt we walk on every day? Add some water and the resulting mud can stop all progress. Let it bake under the unrelenting sun and it dries out and it becomes almost as hard as a rock. Maybe there is something to the dirt.
Canyon Shed
Grand Canyon, Az Along the eastern end of the Grand Canyon stands a small stone shed.
Driver
Durango, Co The main driver of a narrow gauge steam engine, Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge K-36 number 486.
Fired Box Rails
Durango, Co Rails of the Durango and Silverton roundhouse complex are framed by the old smokebox of Durango and Silverton K-28 class locomotive 476.
Grand Canyon Moonlight
Grand Canyon, Az Moon-rise over the Grand Canyon isn’t really that much different than sunrise. Well except that the sky is dark, and there aren’t may animals stirring. So maybe it’s not quite the same either.
Stockcar Ruins
Looking through the ruins of a narrow gauge stock car in the D&SNG yard and museum in in Silverton Colorado.
Sight Glass
Durango, Co One of the two ways to monitor the water level in a steam engine’s boiler, the sight glass. This one is on the engineer’s side of D&SNG 478 (formerly D&RGW 478), a narrow gauge K-28 class mikado (2-8-2).