8: Cimarron Canyon Rail Exhibit - Colorado
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- The Grande Tour Episode 8.
Day 5: 13th July 2023
A supplement to Episode 7 where I followed the Rio Grande from Grand Junction, to Montrose, to Ridgway and to Ouray, here I took a side-step from Montrose to visit Cimarron Canyon where a locomotive and cars is displayed on a bridge as a memorial to the old railroad. A beautiful monument.
Following from this video will be:
- Ep. 9: Ridgway Railroad Museum
- Ep. 10: Ouray, from the ground and high above
- Ep. 11: Tracing the Rio Grande Southern!!!
Then a whole lot more as I make my way towards Denver.
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Gracias for all of this fascinating railroad history!🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂👏👏👏👏👏
You are very welcome.
Muchos gracias Tomás! 👍
So well done!!! Thanks for all the work you put into to sharing both the history & beauty you're presented in this series.
That means so much, thank you.
I've had a lull in motivation since my last one, to be honest. Episode 11 was HUGE. But I'm getting back into it now.
I can't believe it was a year ago, I was in America filming all this!
Thanks again.
Simon
We are learning a lot about our neighboring state. Thanks for the education.
Fantastic! I'm glad to educate.
Love these videos👍👍
I'm very glad.
Thanks Philip!
Great part 8 tour.
Thanks so much!
I always like seeing the old cars and train stations. Really cool!
Beautiful engine and cars for show. Fantastic!!!
It's a lovely looking engine, I think.
Hello Simon, a fantastic video from your trip through the Rocky Mountains and to the railways in Colorado and New Mexico.
Interesting is this little train on the bridge with a small steam locomotive, a boxcar and the caboose. The Galloping Goose is very beautiful. Thanks for showing and best regards Wolfgang🎥👍👍👍🙋♂
Hi Wolfgang,
Thanks very much, I'm glad you enjoyed. I loved seeing it.
All the best. Simon
Almost missed this video. Watching now.
On my trips to Colorado & New Mexico I could easily go back and enjoy more trains. Plus there are other museums with transport interest.
Yeah, I mean I did a lot. But there is so much more to see. You could spend as long as you want exploring everything.
Thanks Andrew!
Enjoyed the tour of the canyon!
I'm very glad. Thanks!
Cool! I'll have to visit this sometime.
It's well worth stopping by. As I say you can really picture the trains coming through back in the day, which is so different from trains on display in rural areas.
Cheers!
OK here’s a fun story! They took the train off the bridge for restoration and the locomotive went one way and the car went another way and the caboose ended up at Wasatch Rail Contractors in Cheyenne Wyoming. And as they tore into it, they found on the back platform where someone had taken their dogs license and nailed it to the side of the caboose. Apparently the dog had died in an order to keep a memory of the dog he had nailed the license up there. And then it had gotten painted over and forgotten about. It had been hanging there since as I recall 1920? We have a picture of it someplace!
Oh wow, that's amazing! So memory of the dog returned around 100 years later. That's brilliant.
Do we know the dog's name?
Thanks for this amazing video, I'm hoping they are getting the roof fixed before the winter is coming.
Wow, thanks for the compliment!
Sadly, I haven't seen any reports of a repair, so I assume it's still damaged.
Great tour filled with epic railway history and amazing scenery. It's kind of a shame that many of these route will never hear the sound of rail traffic again, but at least there are some elements left to savour.
That's true, there's something magical about those sounds echoing through the canyon. But yes, at least there is something.
Cheers!
I’ve always wanted to visit the 278, and go to the RGS area. I’ve only ever visited the C&TS, ever since I can remember and the D&S once in 2021. Great video as usual!
I'm glad I managed to stop by as this display is quite different being out on it's own, rather than in a town like most displays.
You'll have to make it over this way some time! It really was special passing through all the RGS scenes we are all so familiar with from seeing historic photographs. I really felt like I was walking through history.
Thanks so much!
Well, I suppose that if you live in one of those apartments in Tokyo the size of a closet and you are into Fn3, you could build that train display up on the section of bridge and be satisfied you’ve build a prototypical thing! 😊 Awesome video as usual.
The canyon would be HUGE 🤣
But yep, a model of the bridge would look great.
Thanks Terry!
My first thought was "what a stupid place to display a train". My second thought " I bet that's difficult to vandalize".
Haha! Yes, I was similar. I must admit, I did really look and think how possible it would be to climb up. "Pretty difficult" was my conclusion.
Thanks Paul!
Yes a wonderful monument to the railroad but quite sad aswell.
Another awesome video Simon.
Rudyard didnt happen to be a Gnome did he🤔
Haha! He must be related.
Thanks David! 👍
This is really cool! I hope that engine survives the rockfalls. Would be a crying shame for it to be squished.
(Did you go see the lake behind the dam?)
I hope so too. It's been there a long time, and I think there are a group of people who tend to it.
I would have loved to have gone on towards Gunnison (following the Rio Grande route further) but I had Larry waiting for me in Ridgway, so I had to press on.
Damned lakes make me feel queezy anyway, as you can see how deep they are! 😬
There's also Black Canyon which is RIGHT there, which would have been nice to see too. Oh well,.... Next time 🙄
@@ThatBIGTRAINGuyah well an excuse to go back then!
To bad you could not play the song: Cimarron Roll On by The Sons of the Pioneers. Here is the song link for you: ua-cam.com/video/c8-D5HAP9nA/v-deo.html
Royalties and all that. Would have been a nice opening.
I was not aware of this. Thanks!