Another Monday...

Last Sunday (10/9) this little squirrel helped celebrate my niece's birthday (Michelle) in Des Moines in my mom's yard. He was really cute--but small!

These are pictures I took in Stanhope on 10/9 with the fall colors in the trees showing off!

More North Platte (Nebraska) Bailey yard pictures.

The corn maze next to the train yard for entertaining kids while the dads go up in the Golden Spike Tower?

During the bus tour through the train yard there were two demonstrations going. This one showed how the crane puts an engine back on the tracks.

This is a picture of the tour bus (not ours) driving through the train yard (with a train person in front in a pickup to clear the way!).

Self-explanatory...

This was the other demonstration in the train yard--changing 'tires' on the train cars.

Trains, and the Bailey Train yard in North Platte, NE

Here's some pictures from the 'trains' category from our short vacation. This is the "Golden Spike Tower", where you can go to the 7th floor and look at the massive train yard in the open (no windows, etc.). The 8th floor in the tower is enclosed, but windows on all sides make for a great view.

This is the diesel shop, where the engines are repaired, updated, etc.

This is the switch engine, one of the only engines in the yard with a real person inside the engine to maneuver it.

This strip of engines (on the right, past the little switch engine) had come out of the diesel shop, and two weeks later ended up in Boone!

Where there are two train guys, there is train 'talk'!