Santa Cruz Beach Train
2024-03-31
Today we tried to take the Santa Cruz Beach Train from Roaring Camp to Santa Cruz and back.
FIGURE 1 Here comes the train!
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FIGURE 2 The Tuolumne, a two-truck Heisler geared steam locomotive, minding its own business.
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FIGURE 3 Lots of cool trees.
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FIGURE 4 Interior of the train.
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Oh no, it derailed!
FIGURE 5 A bogie on the first carriage derailed.
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We had to wait about 35 minutes for another locomotive to come and pull us back to where we started from.
FIGURE 6 Waiting in the forest for backup to arrive.
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Hooray, locomotive 2641 came to our rescue!
FIGURE 7 Locomotive 2641.
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FIGURE 8 Connecting our train to locomotive 2641.
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FIGURE 9 Trees on the way back.
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In the end we didn’t get to go to Santa Cruz after all. We were too tired so we went home. They refunded our tickets.