by Lara's Lane | Sep 14, 2014 | Lara's Lane, Museums
WARM: More Than Just a Museum She sits a little behind the rest of the rolling stock at the Western America Railroad Museum, welcoming visitors in her fading red-and-silver Warbonnet, a sparkle in her 47-year-old eyes. The old cowboy band Riders in the Sky got it...
by Lara's Lane | Apr 29, 2010 | Lara's Lane, Museums
Barreling down Route 66 with the band Journey blasting from the stereo, is there anything better? But I am getting ahead of myself. This particular trip, I was headed for enlightenment and education. What does the Mojave Desert and outlying areas offer us in the way...
by Lara's Lane | Oct 8, 2009 | Barstow, Lara's Lane, Museums, Trains
It was the little engine that could — and did — for 66 years. And 38 years after it was rebuilt in Santa Fe Railway’s Cleburne, Texas, shop, BNSF 1460 officially retired in December 2008. Rail fans affectionately call the little locomotive the...
