How a tourist line stays in business- Location-Location-Location
| December 11, 2016 09:08PM |
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This is a crop of a photo from the book Roaring Camp Railroads and showed me just why Roaring Camp has been successful for all these years (besides, of course, a good plan, nice line and a lot of hard working people)- they have the fortune to have a beautiful location with 10 million or so population within 100 miles; over one hundred thousand riders in a less than a year is phenomenal!
Interesting thing about this book is that I have met many of the people who built the railroad, most at other locations. Many of them were at the Swanson Pacific Railroad in the late '70s when we convinced our dad to take a detour off Highway 1 and we found an entire miniature steam railroad running in the woods, dream of a lifetime for a young railfan!
An Article on My Old Webpage About It
When this picture was taken I was less than a year old, but in less than four years I would experience my first remembered steam train and cry my head off when the engineer blew the whistle! We rode many times including Fourth of July weekend, 1976, just after the Spring Creek trestles were burned. I hope to someday post my pictures of my train adventures on my blog...
Russell Courtenay
Idaho, USA
Interesting thing about this book is that I have met many of the people who built the railroad, most at other locations. Many of them were at the Swanson Pacific Railroad in the late '70s when we convinced our dad to take a detour off Highway 1 and we found an entire miniature steam railroad running in the woods, dream of a lifetime for a young railfan!
An Article on My Old Webpage About It
When this picture was taken I was less than a year old, but in less than four years I would experience my first remembered steam train and cry my head off when the engineer blew the whistle! We rode many times including Fourth of July weekend, 1976, just after the Spring Creek trestles were burned. I hope to someday post my pictures of my train adventures on my blog...
Russell Courtenay
Idaho, USA
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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