Second day in a row now, storms danced around our area, beautiful colors of dark and light cloud hues interspersed with blue sky and patches of bright sunligfht highlighting small portions of mountains.
Bright sunlight highlighting those magnificent bastions of salute to human greed, with sheets of rain pouring down to the left, distant. The greater bulk of large development of Bullhead City homes visible up the slopes beyond the towers. All the buildings but one lie right on the Colorado River.
Taken from the rooftop of Tropicana's parking garage. Deb refused to walk the Riverwalk today, "we might get wet"! (really afraid of lightning!).
In the early days, Trop. had a riding-sized train operating about it's entire property perimeter, about 3/4 mile or so, free. Just above the gazebo the remaining rail bed and start of the trestle below which all traffic entered the parking garage. Track gauge about 3-feet. I remember riding the train years ago, about 4 to a car. Deb plans to try to locate early pics of the train. I believe they had a steam-driven, as well as diesel, locomotive.
The trestle and trackage, the ramp entering garage to the right of it. Trestle was massively-built of 12 X 12 inch timbers.
30 minutes later the storm cell has moved elsewhere, southward. About two hours later, our home area was drenched! Lasted about 20 delightful minutes! imp
Bright sunlight highlighting those magnificent bastions of salute to human greed, with sheets of rain pouring down to the left, distant. The greater bulk of large development of Bullhead City homes visible up the slopes beyond the towers. All the buildings but one lie right on the Colorado River.
Taken from the rooftop of Tropicana's parking garage. Deb refused to walk the Riverwalk today, "we might get wet"! (really afraid of lightning!).
In the early days, Trop. had a riding-sized train operating about it's entire property perimeter, about 3/4 mile or so, free. Just above the gazebo the remaining rail bed and start of the trestle below which all traffic entered the parking garage. Track gauge about 3-feet. I remember riding the train years ago, about 4 to a car. Deb plans to try to locate early pics of the train. I believe they had a steam-driven, as well as diesel, locomotive.
The trestle and trackage, the ramp entering garage to the right of it. Trestle was massively-built of 12 X 12 inch timbers.
30 minutes later the storm cell has moved elsewhere, southward. About two hours later, our home area was drenched! Lasted about 20 delightful minutes! imp
