Two steam train depots, some snow, Earthship houses and my Dad found an investment opportunity. All in today’s post that took us from Utah to Taos, New Mexico and down the gorge of the Rio Grande River.
Dad’s investment opportunity. Somewhere in New Mexico.
Dad and I kept seeing places like this on the roads we’d been traveling and calling them “investment opportunities.” So we searched for the perfect “investment opportunity” that my Dad, old “Buy ’em high, sell ’em low” Jim Eades would find to be a perfect fit with his investment outlook.
The Durango Depot for the Durango to Silverton steam train.
Unfortunately, the D&SNG Durango to Silverton line was closed this day. You couldn’t even get that close to the trains. Sigh.
A box car on the D&SNG Durango-Silverton line.
My Dad really wanted to climb the fence surrounding the rail yard in Durango and sneak into this box car and pretend to be a hobo.
A passenger car sits on the rail in the rail yard of the D&SNG in Durango.
So since the rail yard was closed…
Beautiful downtown Durango.
We decided to check out downtown Durango.
A conversation piece.
Dad found a bench to sit on and liked this guy.
A neat hotel in Durango.
We thought the hotel might be a good place to stay, sometime in Durango.
A steam engine is returned to Durango.
We saw one of the D&SNG’s steam engines returning to town on a large truck. It looked bright and shiny and clean.
Excuse me, Miss.
Dad really liked this lady, even though she’s not real.
Some beautiful scenery on the road.
We drove up into the mountains east of Durango. This was a beautiful setting with the snow on the southern Rockies.
Roadside junk.
Besides beautiful scenery, we’d see some interesting junk too. We have no idea what this is.
Grazing deer.
We saw a few deer grazing in a meadow area near the highway.
More scenery.
It really was a beautiful drive on highway 64 out of Durango, on our way to Chamas, New Mexico.
United we stand, divided the water goes the other way.
Along the way, we crossed the Continental Divide.
There’s more from today, but I’m tired – so more tomorrow.
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The locomotive you saw on the truck is a former Southern Pacific narrow gauge oil burning locomotive from California. It’s on loan as the railroad learns about oil burning operations. You should check in with Bill Colley, a Disneyland Railroad conductor who is now the chief engineer at the D&S. Another Disneyland connection there as I believe that Rod miller played piano there at the STRATER once upon a time before he started at DISNEYLAND..
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