As JBWX predicted, the Moonlight Special was FANTASTIC. Thank You Richard Tower for hanging in there and making it happen!
Getting off to a late start cost us at least one photo stop, but all-in-all it was a GREAT evening. Maybe next time - and we
ALL hope there
IS a next time - #315 can leave at 3:00 or 3:30, and meet the regular eastbound train at Lava Loop ...
If I had known they would pick us up at the west end of Hangman's trestle, I'd have walked farther up the hill. Next time, if there's a photo stop here they should let us off right at m.p. 286 so we can spread out along the ridge and get a view back down toward Antonito.
I hope this one is at least a little different from everyone else's:
Most of the other riders detrained at Lava Loop, but I stayed on:
Some of us rode in the gon the whole time; here's one reason why:
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"Th ... Th ... That's All, Folks!"