Somewhere around U.S. Forest Service Fire Road 335, we entered a
siding. Judging from google
maps, we are due west of the Grand Canyon National Park Airport.
As we left Williams at 8:15 AM and had a 20 to 30 minute stop for our
run by and 10 to 15 minutes to couple up the steam engines, the
scheduled (9:30 AM departure) Grand Canyon Railway Williams Flyer train
was to
pass us at this
location. Who could complain, more time spent on the Grand Canyon
Limited? Again, after taking some still photos, I gathered a nice
video of the GCR train passing us on the main track. Above, I
wonder what this old building was?
From this point on to arrival to the Grand Canyon Village, I shot no
still photographs - only video. Clicking on the photo will open
the youTube
video link in a separate browser page. If you pass your pointer
over the photo, you can see the length of the video.
We are now very close to the Grand
Canyon Village as the yard limit
sign comes into view. The below left video takes us closer to the
Grand Canyon. The below right video is about 6 minutes and we go
through the final hard right curve and into the depot. The
Williams Flyer
from earlier has been there for a while and only Grand Canyon
Railway employees are aboard. A well known photographer is seen
on the inside of the curve at 1:10 point of the 6 minute video.
People are on the platform end of the Chief
car and someone on the GCL "high fives" the guy with the camera.
We were shoved back out of the depot and onto the Maswik spur track
where we were allowed to disembark.
I found Rober Frutos who was heading to the Maswik
Cafeteria to join
3751 crew and car owners for lunch. However, we were uncertain
exactly
where the Maswik
Cafeteria
was located. While walking away, I shouted
out to Wayne Yetter and he happened to look my way. Across
the street from the train, this woman was walking her dog.
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