gessman wrote:
Well, Rich, thanks for the visit and kind words and I'm sorry you missed riding this one. It's a relaxing journey. Did you get to ride the yearly trip up to Cheyenne Days Rodeo on the 844? It makes that run every year, down and back up twice. Not sure how a person gets on it but also not sure I like the idea of that old engine pulling me along at 100 mph. Last year some lady was taking pics along the route and got sucked into the draft and killed, poor soul. You just need to schedule a trip back here. You can catch the Amtrak Zephyr in LA to here and back and for sure get caught up on your train ride quota real quick in just a matter of a few days. I bet it'd be fun.
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Thank you for your reply. If I can get one more visit to God's country in, I do want to ride the 'Gorge'.
As far as the run up from Denver with the 844 for Cheyenne's Frontier Days, I managed to chase the 844 once (and the 3985 a couple of times) but never rode behind them. I ran a business in Cheyenne which gave me photo ops when I had time. On the other hand, as far as riding behind them goes, the busiest couple of weeks during the year wasn't Christmas, it was Frontier Days. Riding the train would have been a bad move on my part.