Caritas
Caritas
HIGH IRON TRAVEL CORP.
P.O. Box 337
Waunakee, WI 53597
info@highirontravel.com
Phone & Fax: (608) 850-3740
Travel in Pullman luxury in 1940's style and comfort aboard the Caritas
on one of our first-class excursions.
Explorer's Trip in Oregon
Effective Jan.1, 2007 High Iron Travel is owned by Iowa Pacific Holdings. IPH owns several short lines including the San Luis & Rio Grande, the Arizona Eastern, the Texas-New Mexico and the West Texas & Lubbock. Present management will continue to operate High Iron through 2007 and its web site, address and phone number remain the same.
Over the winter the Caritas received a significant interior refurbishing of its lounge and dining area: new carpeting, new upholstery, new wallpaper and new cherry wood trim throughout. The work was done at the shops of the Lancaster & Chester Railway in Lancaster, SC.
The year 2007 took us on some extremely rare mileage indeed! We participated in a trip over the Cincinnati & Southern RR (known to rail buffs as the "Rat Hole") from Cincinnati to Chattanooga and return in May. In August the Caritas went to Petoskey, MI from Chicago in a special train of private cars, traversing a lengthy segment of the former Ann Arbor Railroad. Petoskey is a simply delightful place to park; we had a view of Lake Michigan out the lounge window.
In October our "annual" Explorers trip (the 13th) took us to perhaps the most desolate rail head in America: Whitetail, MT, pop. 17, at the end of what was the Soo Line's west-coast extension hopes and now operated by the Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western. For a week we travelled around North Dakota, sometimes on our own special and sometimes behind lengthy freights. Former Soo Line and GN branches took us to Aberdeen, SD as well.
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