On July 11, 2009 marked 50 years of operation of the Colorado Railroad Museum (CRRM) and if you know anything about this little gem of a RR Museum you know they would mark this event with some flair. To begin with there was the Dignitary Pomp and Circumstance speeches and then they started a "Parade" a parade of _______________!!!!!!! :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes:
Well, it wasn't every piece of operational equipment they have but you can only run so much at the same time. Now, lets see what other photos Lisa and I took of the parade followed by VIDEO!!! of the event... :tb-cool: :tb-cool: :tb-cool: :tb-cool:
Crazy Day!!!!!!! OK, I think I have figured out what photos of Lisa's to post in this edition of RRAdventures and now working on the order of posting them... Let me set the scene of how this day went, we arrived to late to catch D&RGW #346 being turned on the Turntable and lashing up with caboose #40 but we will catch the others not counting the speeder since it was just lifted onto the track as it normally would. Now keep in mind, the "Loop" track is about 0.4 miles and while they loaded each engine onto the Turntable and brought onto the mainline, those already on the line were running around the track. So, as one shots photos/video of the turntable action, engines keep passing by you; EEK! which action should I shot now!. Once they are all running on the "Loop" together we wanted to catch a few Run-By's but again they are running so close together one can miss one engine while get shots of another so it was one Crazy Day!!!!!!! :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:
Galloping Goose #2 With so many things happening at the same time, I decide to group the photos of each photo event together starting with the photos Lisa took of the Turntable action starting with RGS#2. Lisa took a ton of shots so I've tried to pick just a few to show different angles of the engine as it rotated before us... [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
Galloping Goose #6 Next engine on the Turntable is RGS#6 & once again Lisa catches a ton of shots to pick from. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
GC&SJ #3 With action occurring on the "loop" in front of Lisa she will only catch a few shots of "Golden City & San Juan" engine #3 and I've pick this one as my favorite. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica][/FONT]
Galloping Goose #7 Next up on the turntable is RGS#7 and Lisa once again got a ton of shots for me to pick from. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
GC&SJ #4 Lisa catches the "Golden City & San Juan" engine #4 next on the turntable but action on the "loop" will keep her from getting a head-on shot but got lots of nice side shots to pick from. [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
D&RGW #50 The last engine Lisa will catch on the Turntable is Denver & Rio Grande Western #50 [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] - [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT]
