Moab?

So what am I doing in Moab? No trains here, at least as far as I know. This is not exclusively at train riding trip, there are plenty of other things to see and a friend recommended Arches National Park so here I am. Tomorrow I go into the Fiery Furnace.

This will be my last stop in Utah. There are many kinds of deserts and I've seen a lot of them on this trip, in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Each has it's own appeal and many people are very attracted to them. But I like trees ... and there aren't many trees in any kind of desert. Wednesday I head for Colorado and trees, trees, trees. Hooray! When I first started planning this trip, it was going to be confined to Colorado and the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad in northern New Mexico. But then I thought about going to SLC to do a little genealogy research and why not stop along the way to see whatever there was to see railroad wise. Anyway, it sort of grew. I'm glad I went to all those places, there are some very nice excursion railroads out there and chasing down some of these park railroads sent me places I never would have seen otherwise. But I now know a bunch of places I don't need to go back to and maybe one or two that might be worthwhile to see again, if I'm in the neighborhood.