Re: Photos from Great Western Steam Up (links to flickr)

guymonmd Wrote:
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> Thank you for the post with the links to the
> flicker accounts.
> I am getting the feel that the photo's, while
> great, do not convey the enormity of the event.
> The event seems to rival the Victorian Round Up
> event on the C&TS last year.


While there certainly were far more locomotives (dual gauge track helps with that) and attendance may have been higher (Carson City is a reasonable weekend trip from California's coastal metropolises, a stark difference from the isolation in Antonito or Chama) I don't know if it "rivals" the roundup. Cumbres & Toltec had two distinct advantages over the Nevada State Railroad Museum: scenery and mainline length. I personally only spent one and a half days at the steam up this year, whereas I spent six days at the roundup last year.