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Title: OTD - 26th July 2001 - visit to the Cass Scenic Railroad Post by: grahame on July 26, 2023, 12:24:56 No real doubt - anything British Isles is fair game. So if I get to Listowel or Ballybunion I can tell you about it. I voted for "British isles" but would add the caveat that posts about more distant attractions could be included if exceptionally important/interesting. Repeated several times ... so I'm inclined to think that the Cass Scenic Railroad (https://mountainrailwv.com/tour/shay-2/) can be included but probably not the Seminole Gulf Railway (https://semgulf.com). Cass, of course, is particularly inclined! A personal memory of Lisa's and mine - a visit to the Cass Scenic Railroad in 2001. A fantastic day out with a ride from Cass and after a stop at Whittaker up to Bald Knob. Not much obvious online I have found but a wonderful page at http://hawkinsrails.net/preservation/cass/cass.html Posting because it is - to me - of worldwide interest. Also personally a memory of a week at "West Virginia alt.good.morning" or WVAGM which was a meet-up of all the misfits and Mavericks who were a part of that newsgroup who we met through in 1996. Cass was superb, but that was the week that really took us away on a separate path from most if not all of the people there; it confirmed just how much we were right for each other among some significant challenges that would seem like trivia if I reported them here. Lisa and I met in 1996; we married on 24th July 1998 (so last Monday was our Silver Wedding). The AGM folks said it would not last - how wrong they were. The first 25 years were silver, the next 25 all be golden. On Monday we celebrated with "Meet the Manager" at 17:00, "Assembly Hall Working Group" at 19:00, and a meal in the Market Tavern at 21:00. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/casspf1.jpg) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |