Re: comments, questions, and we've made our decision
| December 09, 2023 05:12AM |
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Great photos Bob and John. With yours John, I gather 114 is the locomotive now going south? And is the coach with a cupola one of the ex-Sumter Valley railway cars?
And re John C's original post, I will read it in more detail. Per an earlier thread we have pretty much made our decision to do the cruise thing - in deference to a patient wife and two daughters who don't need this trip to be the railway boot camp I've put them through other times
It'll be a simple 7 day cruise Vancouver - Skagway and return, with time to ride the Carcross train. Remembering we've ridden the entire line back in freight train days. [ngdiscussion.net]. I will probably come back on my own at some point to ride steam because it's a bucket list thing....
Would love to meet you John W but you'll be there a little ahead of us. But John C although I know you'll be busy working, can maybe stop to say hi.
Cheers,
Ralph
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.”
- - - - - - - “Travel”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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And re John C's original post, I will read it in more detail. Per an earlier thread we have pretty much made our decision to do the cruise thing - in deference to a patient wife and two daughters who don't need this trip to be the railway boot camp I've put them through other times
It'll be a simple 7 day cruise Vancouver - Skagway and return, with time to ride the Carcross train. Remembering we've ridden the entire line back in freight train days. [ngdiscussion.net]. I will probably come back on my own at some point to ride steam because it's a bucket list thing....
Would love to meet you John W but you'll be there a little ahead of us. But John C although I know you'll be busy working, can maybe stop to say hi.
Cheers,
Ralph
“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.”
- - - - - - - “Travel”, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2023 05:15AM by tgbcvr.
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