Monday, January 1, 2024

Vegas 2023

 Hiking at Calico Basin (very near Red Rocks)







Lake Vegas


Sloan Canyon Petroglyphs

A herd of wild mountain goats kept a watchful eye on us!






Hollywood Cars Museum & Liberace Garage; Las Vegas 12/23

 http://hollywoodcarsmuseum.com/

A great collection of cars!  Many are the actual cars from films, others are reproductions of those cars, others are just show worthy cars.

Ford Edsel Wagon

Peel 50.  I know this sort of car from the Top Gear episode from Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson drove it through the BBC corporate offices.  Someone asked me if this was the car from: "The Muppet's: "Most Wanted".  I am not sure, there wasn't a plaque near by.


The actual Fast & Furious cars.


Hard Castle and McCormick 

Replica of the Beverly Hillbilly's 

"Pursuit mode" KITT, from Knight Rider

Bonnie & Clyde the movie

This was the actual General Lee that did the 150' jump from the movie.  The body was repaired to look presentable. 









No idea if this was used in any of the movies, or just someone's neat build.
 




Is this a picture of Smokey Yunick?

Two of the six cars made for this James Bond film reside at this collection.


DeathRace 2000

Just a prop car, that was made from a jeep.


Sunday, June 18, 2023

Spooner Train Ride 2023

 https://spoonertrainride.com/

We had a lovely five course meal, a short ride across the Wisconsin country side, a bit of history lessons, and a bed & breakfast.  They also offer Santa Train, wine & cheese tastings, and a pizza train. They used to offer wedding services, private events.  There is also a caboose that can be rented out, ideally for a family.


1950 dinner car converted into the bar

Just some of the views, Namekagon River






Double decker car used for their wine & cheese tasting rides, these cars were in service along the Pacific coast, the upper level was only way to see the ocean.




Dessert

This guy has had it's 16 cylinder diesel de-turbo-ed as they were problematic, and isn't really needed with these light loads for these tourist trips.


Monday, October 24, 2022

 

Osceloa Depot
Minnesota Transportation Museum






Train cars are from the 1940's from the "Chicago 400"...the 400 mile trip, in 400 minutes that ran from Minneapolis to Chicago.



1912 Mail Car