Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad
27 August 2007We took a ride on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad. This small tourist railroad runs on old Milwaukee Road tracks from Elbe, WA to Morton, WA. We rode a train of three passenger cars pulled by #17, built in 1929. They sell cab rides. Shown below are the customers boarding the cab of the locomotive.
Once we were out on the main line, we were pulled, cab forward, from Mineral down about six miles to a large trestle (”old shakey.”) Then they ran the engine around, and pulled us back.
The train carried a musician, a singer-songwriter named John Sparrow, who entertained us with his own train-songs. John sat down with us for the return trip and told us some stories of his life on the road as a musician. He had set some of his experiences to song, and for an old folkie like me, the trip home was heaven. Thanks, John.
There are some short videos of the trip, but the Palm Treo saves them in an odd format and I haven’t been able to convert them to something standard yet.
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