Sorry about the radio silence – boy, once you stop posting, the longer you wait the harder it is to start up again!
OK, so I’ll just pretend I wasn’t gone. Let’s see, what do I have?
Ah! Pictures of an adventure!
Last weekend I was invited to go on a special train ride. The Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad brought two of their engines (one a newly refurbished historic steam engine, and one historic diesel engine), and a few passenger cars, down to Tacoma, Washington for a model train show. They gave 45 minute rides on Saturday and Sunday, and then on Sunday afternoon they had a special excursion. We were to ride the train out of Tacoma, on Tacoma Rail tracks (so it was a ride you’d never get to see otherwise, basically!), and up the mountain to Eatonville. We would then bus back to Tacoma while the train went the rest of the way home to Mineral. The trip should take about 3 hours total, we were told.
We were to leave Tacoma at 3:30pm and be bck home at 7pm.
I got off the bus in Tacoma from the ride home at 10pm.
