My wife and I took a week-long tourist RR trip to CO with a tour group in 2019
(oddly, only myself and one other guy were actual train fans)
and we went up Pikes Peak in a Jeep, as the RR was torn out at that point,
and the locals didn't know if it was ever coming back.
I so wish they could have done this work about 3 years earlier,
but maybe someday I'll be back in that area to ride it...
____________________ -Lee
Commanding Officer, 796th Railway Operating Battalion (in On30 gauge), operating on the Stoney Creek branch of the ET&WNC RR