Hello All,
I do not post regularly on this website… though I do stop by and read the posts on occasion.
I am a photographer. I have been one for almost 40 years.
A while back… I came across someone (on this website) who asked about a Pullman Sleeper Car in Atlanta.
Since I had photographed that particular car on several times… I responded with this post:
First -
I stayed about 1-1/2 weeks - mainly in the West Yellowstone area - about 3 years ago. A couple books that I purchased then might be helpful to you:
“Yellowstone by Train” by Thornton Waite, 168 pgs.:
“Yellowstone Branch of the Union Pacific” by Thornton Waite, 98 pgs.:
http://www.karensbooks.com/store/products/ProductDetail.php?ProductID=6704
Your daughters might like “Yellowstone Bears of the Union Pacific Railroad”, also by Thornton Waite (8 prints + 8 pages):
http://www.karensbooks.com/store/products/ProductDetail.php?ProductID=10167
The Yellowstone Historic Center in West Yellowstone is in the old Union Pacific Depot at the end of that line there, and has a very good display/ interpretation of that operation, including at least 1 passenger car - see: http://www.yellowstonehistoriccenter.org/index.php
The roadbed of the northeastern end of the former UP/ Oregon Short Line Yellowstone Branch is now a trail - open to 4-wheel drive vehicles, ATVs, as well as horses, bikers and hikers, etc. - from West Yellowstone to the southwest through Island Park and at least as far as the Harriman State Park - the “Railroad Ranch” (yes, one of those Harrimans) - http://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/parks/harriman.aspx I haven’t bee