The Train that Could

First of all, I just want to say that I am sorry. I have failed terribly in blogging lately. It is not all my fault. Our Internet has been down and it was taking to long for my pictures to upload, and my words don't mean as much without pictures. So here we go...

This was taking half way up to Pike's Peak in Colorado. The road was closed up on top, so this was as far as we could go. The snow was beautiful. We hated that we could not go any farther.


The big highlight for the day was the Royal Gorge. It is a train ride that goes along the Arkansas River. This was the train depot.

This was the car that we rode on. Adam had bought tickets in the Dome Car so we had refreshments served and got to sit on top and look through these windows.

This is a picture of the Royal Gorge Bridge taken from our train ride. The scenery was remarkable. The train went through these rocks and at some points we could have reached out and touched the rock. The tickets that Adam bought included the Royal Gorge bridge. More of that to come.

That is right, the river is 1,053 feet below where are standing. I wasn't sure what suspension meant when Adam was telling me about this. To everyone that doesn't know. That means the bridge is hanging from CABLES! Call me silly, but I don't put two and two together that quick. We walked across the bridge and you could feel it swaying in the wind. Crazy. There were people that couldn't do it and had to turn around. Not only could you walk across, but you could also drive across. That was too much for me to handle.

This was looking across the bridge. The bridge amazed me.

You could also ride this car down a 45 degree angle and look up at the bridge and get a closer look at the river. It was a pulley system, when one car went down the other went up. This was the only way to get down and get back up. There was also a weight limit. My whole thought process while I was riding the car down, was what happens if a bunch of kids decide to come down next and can't pull the weight back up the hill?

This was down at the bottom looking back up.

There was this couple that lived in St. Louis that struck up a conversation with Adam, seeing that he had a Cardinals' shirt on. So we asked them to take our picture.

Here are the big finales. Pictures from the bridge looking down and looking out. That is the Arkansas River that we rode next to in the train. The bridge didn't look that high when we were below. Pretty Amazing right?

XOXO - Sandi