October 10-12, 2011 – Camp Verde, AZ continued
Rex received tickets for the Verde Canyon Railroad as a Christmas gift from the owners of the Dolly Steamboat and we finally got a chance to use them. We rode the train on Monday and had a great ride. Our two FP& engines, No.s 1510 and 1512, were built in 1953 for the Alaska Railroad. In 1988 they went to the Wyoming-Colorado Railroad and ran on the scenic railroad from Laramie to Fox Park in Wyoming. When the Colorado-Wyoming Railroad closed in 1995 the engines were purchased by the Verde Canyon Railroad. We rode the Colorado-Wyoming Railroad out of Laramie the last year it operated and were disappointed when it closed. We are glad the engines found a new home. The scenery in the Verde River canyon was beautiful and we even saw a Bald Eagle sitting in a tree beside the river (unfortunately, we were not able to get a picture of it). We passed by a couple of cliff dwellings shortly after the start of the trip. En...