I took my Subaru in to the tire shop to get the tires rotated before my trip to Oregon for the holidays.
The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
Heather and I stopped off at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center run by the BLM outside of Baker City, Oregon on our way back to Colorado. We tried to visit the center a little over a year ago but the center was closed by the time we reached it.
The area is absolutely spectacular.
The Oregon Trail follows the ravine down the mountain.
Some replica covered wagons were sitting outside the museum in the snow.
The Oregon Trail crosses the highway at the left side of this picture.
The 2014 Van Bossuyt and Lee Family Christmas Trains
This year we had a family Christmas with the Van Bossuyts and the Lees gathering together. I decided to bring the trains out of their storage boxes and setup all six gauges of trains plus a gondola. This is the pseudo-G Gauge train that my grandfather gave me many years ago.
This is a wind-up train that would fall somewhere between N and HO Gauges.
This push train is a bit smaller than N Gauge.
The N Gauge train next to the push train.
The HO Gauge train coming out from behind the Christmas tree.
The O27 Gauge Lionel engine. I need to find a replacement tender for this engine because the original was lost some years back when it went out for service and never came back to us.
Some of the newer cars in the O27 fleet
All of the trains together.
The trains all run around or near the Christmas Tree. In years past I was able to get all of the trains to actually circle the tree but not this year.
The Swiss-made gondola.
It is a pretty fun toy.
Here is a video of all of the trains running.