Grand Canyon Solo Tour: All Aboard!

After breakfast I head off to the train depot to figure out what's what. I wind up getting shuffled into a souvenir photo shoot, from which online I can view and purchase a picture my smiling mug in front of an old-time railroad engine, with a railway sign displaying my rail car and seat number. Yay ;-)


I walk down the platform to see what else I can find, before boarding, and come across a Wild West shoot-out stage. The actors are hamming it up, but what the hey, its a way to kill some time before the train arrives. (Hate to spoil the "surprise," but the marshal wins.)


A whistle heralds the arrival of the train, so I go and find my seat (15B in car Budd N). When I get there I discover its an aisle seat :-(

Luckily, the car isn't fully booked and no one winds up sitting next to me. Satisfied, I slide over to the window for a better photographic advantage :-)

The train has departed. Next stop: the Grand Canyon National Park!