Oh my! This ride was amazing. Of course pictures never do justice to the real beauty of God's creation but still ... We rode this train for 3 1/2 hours, 119 miles south yet it's 10* colder here than in Fairbanks. There were 5 different moose sightings but none close by, all in the distance running off. This train is 85 feet long, 10 feet wide and more than 17 feet high. Most of the pictures were taken off the platform in the cold brrrr air but well worth it. Just a few of the pictures. I'll let them speak alone .... Dall sheep on the hillside, an interesting bridge
The red topped buildings are Denali Logde where we stayed the night. The water in the lake was so blue! Then our view from our room and to the side.
That "night" we went to the Dinner Theater, sat at picnic style tables with tablecloths, drank from mason jars and passed around Bar-b-Que Ribs, Salmon, corn on the cob, coleslaw, beans and biscuits all family style. No dessert unless your plate was clean, buckets proved for the scraps, then yummy chocolate pudding cake. Our waitress and actor was Angie. If you needed anything you had to call her by yelling (like pig calling) "Ang..eeeee!" while waving your cloth napkin overhead in the air. At the end we had to wad the napkins and throw them into her held out apron.
The musical was discovering the legend of the first expedition to the summit of Mt. McKinley that had us clapping and signing along with the cast. It was a wonderful production and we slept well that night too.
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