Bob's Resource Website (2007)

Potomac Chapter Fall Tour 2007


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....Early AM, for many of us....

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Paul gives us our 'marching orders'
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..we leave from a point east of White Post, VA
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First regrouping....
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Through Apple country..
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... this was fresh tar with gravel over it....YARGHHH!
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..Second regrouping..
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Stopped for lunch at O'Neill's,
Moorefield, WV
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<------- We Left for the Smoke hole Caverns...

but one of our convoy didn't make it------->

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<---- A couple of us tried to lend assistance

The rest went on. We caught up later --->

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We continued toward Snowshoe Mountain...
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...got there around 6PM..

Next AM, at the "Inn at Snowshoe" we get ready to go up the mountain

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.. Snowshoe Village...
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...will look different in
about 3 weeks..
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taking the chair lift down.
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Karen Johnson & Nancy Pfahler
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..Le village de la neige...
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..fun for some...
..last resort for others..
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Mary & Steve Walter...
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A couple of us tried out the big Chair...

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..We stop at Greenbank Radio Observatory..
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..A picture of an Infrared picture..

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... This was one sweet sounding F-body...
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Later, the Cass Railway....
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This is an old Logging Railway...
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... using Shay locomotives....
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... up the mountain, we go...
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.. A Fiddles and Vittles dinner..
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..the old drag line engine..


.. All of us, finally in one place..

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...back down the mountain..
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..Got back, well after dark...
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..later that evening, Potomac Chapter's, Darrell Carr entertains the group
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.....Next AM, breakfast at the Raven Country Club..
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...I think there's a nice
spot up there, we
could build a ....
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.. Then headed north and stopped at ....
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Seneca Rocks National Park..
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.. A couple group pics..
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...And then we, all, head for home......

Another great and memorable Fall Tour, with the Potomac, Ohio and Alleghany SDC Chapters. Many thanks to Paul and Karen Johnson for all the hard work and planning... It was a blast!!