Saturday April 22nd 2017

The weather was beautiful again today. It was in the mid 80s with full sunshine. No complaints from me.

This is a tail of a frustrating start to the day and a productive end. I left camp without having breakfast. My thought was to stop at a McDonald’s for breakfast. That was easier said than done. I was on the wrong side of the intersection for the first McDonald’s so I thought I’d find another one down the road. Twenty minutes later I was still looking. Since when isn’t there a McDonald’s on every other block? I consulted my smart phone for directions to a McDonald’s on the back side of mall parking lot.

Engine and tender on display at the Nevada Railroad Museum in Boulder City.

After breakfast I found my self in a traffic jam on the freeway trying to get through Railroad Pass on the way to Boulder City. The road is being rebuilt and widened through the pass. This morning it was down to one lane as the road crews paved an area. The traffic crawled for more than two miles. It seemed like I was in the slow down for over an hour, but it had to have been less than that.

My destination was the Nevada Railroad Museum at Boulder City. This museum is on a section of rail line donated to the state by the Nevada Southern Railroad. It contains a number of Railroad stock from this area and the west in general. On weekends the museum runs an excursion train on the section of railroad line from Railroad Pass to just before the center of Boulder City.

Tracks the excursion train follows.

The museum has a great deal of potential. There are number of pieces of rolling stock in an open pavilion for viewing. Other cars, a ways down the track, are waiting for restoration. What I missed was the story that connects the pieces together. I think they get many donations of random old equipment to restore and display. The excursion train goes north from the museum, then backs up to return to the museum. I assume this is the big draw at the museum. I missed taking a ride on the train by a couple of minutes thanks to the traffic jam.

This afternoon back at the RV park, I had the productive part of my day. I got the laundry done including the towels and bedding. The holding tanks got dumped and the dishes got washed. Oh, and the TV got watched.