Day Out With Thomas @ Roaring Camp Railroads
This Saturday, we went over to Felton to visit with Thomas the Tank Engine at Roaring Camp Railroads (for the third year already …). The kids love it and there was also some fun to be had for the railfan parent. More “Day Our With Thomas” events are scheduled for all over the country until December of this year - click here for details.
Some railfan notes:
- Thomas the Tank engine is obviously a fake. The 10 car train was actually pulled/puhed by a CF7 (I think) diesel of the “Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific Railway”, i.e. these are the engines that normally run the standard gauge Santa Cruz excursion trains. The train ride that is advertised and sold as the main attraction is a short 30-or-so-minute ride a couple miles down the San Lorenzo River canyon and back. And you don’t actually see much of Thomas while riding the train - not unless you’re in one of the cars right next to it.
- Diesel #40 seems to have received a new coat of paint - last year, it looked quite a bit less spiffy.
- This is the first time that I saw steamer #3 in operation at Roaring Camp. I wonder if the little engine would make it up the hill … 
Day Out With Thomas @ Roaring Camp (Felton, CA)
Thomas the Tank Engine “pulls” a 10 car train loaded with ecstatic kids and their parents.
Diesel #40 runs the shuttle trains between the depot/water tower and the overflow parking lot.
Later in the afternoon, #40 gets a break and steamer #3 takes over the shuttle trains.
Due to the large crowds in the village, the narrow gauge trains up to Bear Mountain cannot use their usual loop track - instead, they back up towards the yard and then turn on the wye to get back up the mountain.
Shay #7 “Sonora” puts on quite a show as it ascends the grade.
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