Rick,
Sorry to hear about the Fourney Transportation Museum. It was real rundown
but lots of great vehicles! I chased the U.P. Challenger 2-8-8-2 many
times.
Waited for hours sometimes for it to pass. It runs on the U.P. mainline
from Larimie to Cheyenne. Easyest place to photograph it with really cool
shots would be Sherman Hill westbound. Great Grade, Lots of Steem & Smoke.
Better shots await those who leave the paved road and head into the plains.
Hermosa tunnel sets in a ravine, can't see it until you come up to it.
I got a 4x4 scout stuck in snow out there in early spring...Found a house
several miles away. Could have been a deadly situation. Had My mother and
My
4 year old son with me. Homeowner said it was the first time he had been
there
since winter began. We saw the lights. About this time, 1984. Be carefull.
Rob Teed 74 Painted Desert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gmcmotorhome
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> RickStapls
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 1:28 AM
> To: gmcmotorhome
> Subject: Re: GMC: Spring in the Rockies (long)
>
>
>
> > I used to head up in the mountains
> > every weekend. Love that country. Also railfan-
> > ing. Used to chase steam trains out there.
>
> Rob,
> Thanks for kind words. Don't know if they did this when you
> were out here,
> but every year the Union Pacific and the Denver Post sponsor a train from
> Denver to Cheyenne, Wyo., to the Frontier Days rodeo. The UP has
> one of their
> huge 2-8--8-2 articulated steam engines (not a "Big Boy", but
> about one size
> smaller, I believe) still in steam, which is used for motive power. I've
> never taken it (not real cheap, and sells out in a few days), but
> I'm trying
> to pin down the route they take out of Denver. I've just got to
> see and feel
> that unit pound by.
> Speaking of the "Big Boy" (at 6,000 HP, the most powerful
> steam locomotive
> ever built, for those who don't follow these things), The Fourney
> Transportation Museum in Denver is a victim of urban
> renewal/development. The
> evening news, and the paper, had shots of them moving their Big
> Boy down the
> South Platte riverbank to a temp. home. Jack Fourney, the owner
> of this vast
> collection of antique autos, trucks, and rolling stock, is a
> GMCer, and member
> of the GMC Mountaineers.
> (See, this IS germaine to the group!) ;-)
>
> Rick Staples
> '75 Eleganza
> Louisville, CO
>
