Durango to Silverton #2...
Feb 25, 2019 03:47:56 #
Continued...
You know you're getting near when you see the abandoned mine on the right...
...and the rusted abandoned mine equipment and vehicles everywhere
...as you continue to approach Silverton.
Then you're there, downtown Silverton.
You get a lunch and shopping break before heading back... Oh, and that's my wife in the blue shirt foreground avoiding the camera.
You can visit the train station...
...and see some relics. This rig was built on an old Cadillac, I think, car chassis began life as an ambulance for injured miners and wound up being railroad dignitary's shuttle.
All too soon it's time to head back to Durango...
...and then you find yourself pulling back into the train yard in Durango about eight hours later.
Feb 25, 2019 05:23:47 #
Feb 25, 2019 05:51:50 #
A great day out as I remember. Free tram down to the station from our motel and plenty to photograph.
High Street was much busier when we were there (09/2011) with an array of vehicles to photograph as well.
And I've still got the $1 cinder specs which I use for cycling.
High Street was much busier when we were there (09/2011) with an array of vehicles to photograph as well.
And I've still got the $1 cinder specs which I use for cycling.
Feb 25, 2019 06:28:34 #
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Feb 25, 2019 22:47:17 #
johneccles wrote:
Very Interesting.
Pretty crass and primitive by British standards, huh, junk lying around everywhere... A lot of the old mining towns are like that - "preserving the history and character," they are.
Feb 25, 2019 22:56:46 #
John N wrote:
A great day out as I remember. Free tram down to the station from our motel and plenty to photograph.
High Street was much busier when we were there (09/2011) with an array of vehicles to photograph as well.
And I've still got the $1 cinder specs which I use for cycling.
High Street was much busier when we were there (09/2011) with an array of vehicles to photograph as well.
And I've still got the $1 cinder specs which I use for cycling.
Sounds like you had a good time, as did I during my three year stay in UK with the Air Force. I loved the train system there, very convenient and predictable. The wife and I would hope on a train in Lutterworth and take off for the weekend, to the seaside, London, Stratford, Brighton, Wales, all over. That was when the M1 was new and was the only limited access highway and that was only good for a fast trip from Rugby to London and everywhere else was pretty difficult by car.
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Feb 26, 2019 03:08:02 #
gessman wrote:
Pretty crass and primitive by British standards, huh, junk lying around everywhere... A lot of the old mining towns are like that - "preserving the history and character," they are.
I didn't think so, it's a different approach to Conservatism. I often see Americans over here 'doing 'IRONBRIDGE' or 'BEAMISH' and commenting 'I wish we had some History like this' - and they've never been to Williamsburg. Get a 3 day pass for America's best attraction, take a rest then get another 3 day pass. You'll need it.
Feb 26, 2019 03:25:40 #
John N wrote:
I didn't think so, it's a different approach to Conservatism. I often see Americans over here 'doing 'IRONBRIDGE' or 'BEAMISH' and commenting 'I wish we had some History like this' - and they've never been to Williamsburg. Get a 3 day pass for America's best attraction, take a rest then get another 3 day pass. You'll need it.
I've been to Williamsburg a few times, Jamestown, Boston, up and down the east coast and it's no doubt a history lesson but when in the UK I lived in a cottage older than those places. I think that's what's so hard for we yanks to grasp and that's just beginning to scratch the surface of the scope of British history, or so it would seem.
Feb 26, 2019 06:00:17 #
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