Next year’s convention in Scranton should prove to be another highlight for NRHS members.

And thanks to Dan & Dawn for inviting me and then finding me a fun job to do – namely, this blog.

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Dan and Dawn will be sending me a few pictures of Sunday’s trip back to St. Paul which I’ll add when I get them. We’ve so far been unsuccessful at providing you videos of the photo run-bys. If we ever get that tool working, we’ll post a new note here along with the videos. And we know some of the early pictures load slowly because of the the picture size we used. However, the last 3 or 4 days pictures should load much faster. Also, Dawn tells me that a few pictures of Tuesday & Wednesday are mixed up – I’m sorry. However, pending those minor updates, I guess this blog is now closed.

Roger Meyer

Must’ve left my key chain GPS on a train. Can’t find it anywhere. Oh, well. There’s more where it came from.

Great trip!

The train trip to/from Grand Rapids was smooth and uneventful. Had a nice box lunch in Grand Rapids and even found an ice cream store.

After arriving home and having a wonderful dinner at Black Wood’s, it started drizzling. Oh, well…

My one Grand Rapids picture is the photo run-by on our way home. I’ll have more as soon as I get them from Dawn.

Quite foggy when I got up at 6 – see pictures below of downtown Duluth taken from my hotel window – couldn’t even see Lake Superior and the Lift Bridge which is normally visible.

This morning, we (Dawn’s feeling better) attended rail seminars at the hotel. In the afternoon, we attended the membership meeting. Then this evening we attended the annual banquet held at D.E.C.C. Hopefully, Dawn got some pictures I can include below.

In the morning, Dan was needed at a shops tour which we’ll cover in a separate post. (Dawn was ill all day.)

Then after I returned to Duluth from the Two Harbors trip, Dan & I both went on a short line L.S. & M. RR down the St. Louis river shore, complete with a photo run-by.

See the pictures below. And be sure to activate both videos that I shot with my little Canon camera. One of the videos is the steam train heading for Two Harbors. Very cool (if I do say so myself).

Link to video

Tuesday was a wonderful day. The train ride to Duluth went smoothly and we saw lots of interesting farmland & forests of northern Minnesota & Wisconsin. Arrived at the Duluth depot at about 4:30 PM where we were met by a Dixieland band.

Our hotel checkin procedures went very smoothly and our room at the Radisson was very nice.

The evening dinner cruise was most enjoyable & delicous. On the Vista Cruiser, we toured the Duluth-Superior harbor viewing “the lift bridge”, large cargo ships, loading, unloading, huge grain elevators, etc. The onboard dinner was scrumptous. Returned to Radisson about 9.