Wayne's Reflections

Train Museum in Douglas Wyoming Most of the pictures in this Blog Post are self explanatory  Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Passenger Depot Bar area and entrance to kitchen I would call this a 1st class sleeper as it has toilet, sink and storage plus the bed.  The curtain can be pulled and makes this two compartments.  Door on the toilet closes to hide this feature. Hallway with sleeping berths on both sides Economy Class.  The shelf looking thing on the left behind the door is a pull-out bed. Going between train cars was usually inside flexible walls when allowed.

On Memorial Day weekend (2017) our sons Tracy, his son Alex; and Dirk, wife Natalie and children Maddison, Lindsie and Garrett came to our house to visit and celebrate.  One of the things on their list of things to do was go to "Craters of the Moon," National Monument.  The Monument is just 45 minutes from our home in Mackay; and we all drive past it to go to Kimberly where Dirk and family live as well as to Hailey where Tracy and Alex live.  But, we haven't spent much time walking the trails of the Monument. We left Mackay at 10:30 Saturday morning.  The weather was perfect; clear, not cloudy and the temperature was about 60 degrees F.  Perfect for hiking.  The only problem was Shirley was not feeling well and Maddison had a stress fracture of her right foot; so, they decided to stay home and have lunch ready when we returned. First stop is the Visitors Center Natalie and Lindsie Dirk and Garrett Next Stop - The Devils Orcha

OLD FORTS OF WYOMING It has been a tradition for the past few years to go back to Shirley's home state of Wyoming and visit places where she has been and wants me to see; or, go to places we both want to explore.  We do this with Shirley's brother Terry and his wife Donna. Terry and I have been reading about the old west and the part Wyoming played in the settling of the west.  For the past two years, we have been talking about visiting the old forts (Shirley said we didn't have time to visit all the old farts).  Three of the restored forts are located rather close together.  This made it fairly easy to select Fort Caspar, Fort Fetterman, and Fort Laramie as the forts to visit on this trip. As you can see from the map below, these three forts are fairly close together.  Don't let this fool you as it took two to three hours to tour Fort Casper.  Fort Fetterman has not been restored to the extent of the other two, but took a little over an hour to tour using a golf