The D&S has had the #18 out on a couple of work/crew training runs this week. Two days ago I missed her on the trip up to Hermosa but snapped her backing back down past our house near Hermosa Meadows Road with just a boxcar and caboose.
Yesterday she headed back up to Hermosa with a rail flat, boxcar and caboose, picking up a couple more flats from the Home Ranch Siding. Here are a couple of pics from the trip north. Once at Hermosa, there was a lot of hand shoveling required to clear the flangeways of ice and snow before the two flats were (carefully) tucked into the siding.They then put things back together and backed towards town, presumably turning on the event venue wye along the way.
Purist alert - high tension lines have been photoshopped out of a couple of the pics taken along CO 550.
LJG