The train to nowhere...........

So a couple we are friends with asked us if we'd like to ride out to Campo and take a ride on a historical train.
Campo is a 45 mile ride from us. There is NOTHING in Campo but weeds, dirt, a few old run down buildings and this old train museum. It is only ONE mile from the Mexico border. In all the years we've lived here we've never been there.......now I know why!

We looked on websites and it said there was a 90 minute ride on an old historical train through the old tracks and we thought it would be a fun way to see how it was on the old train rides.


There is a huge barn which is a museum of old trains. We bought the tickets, $10 a piece to see the museum and ride the train. The museum had three full size train cars in it and we were able to go inside them and see how they were many years ago.
We were anxious to go on the ride and see the old tunnel and how the old train worked.

THEN THEY DIRECTED US TO THE TRAIN CABOOSE...........riding on the caboose was going to be fun...........we got inside the caboose and found THREE seats two windows and doors............connected to the caboose was the engine car..........NO OTHER TRAIN CARS WERE ATTACHED..............humm??? this started to seem strange to us.......we were told it would be alright to stand on the outside of the caboose if we wanted to see better while riding......ahhh, ok? We heard the engine start! We wondered how the caboose would ride and what we would see......the engine was loud.........The caboose and engine started to move...............forward.............then it stopped a few yards ahead...............backwards..............then it stopped a few feet behind..................forward................then it stopped a few yards ahead.............backwards...............WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT IS GOING ON??

So we asked the man who was on the caboose.......the volunteer train guy with the train hat on.............."what is going on? Are we just going to go back and forth?" and he replied "yep, there was a fire on the tracks a few days ago and we can't go on the normal ride anymore". WHAT???????????????????

"so why weren't we told this when we bought the tickets" we asked him.............his reply " it's on our website".

This was the extent of our train ride ........these tracks....................

Now I looked online at a few websites that talked about the places to see in our area. Places to go and things to do sort of websites........they ALL said this was going to be a 90 minute ride through old train track sights............

BUT THE ACTUAL MUSEUM WEBSITE DOESN'T SAY THAT............here.......check this out for yourself...............does it explain EXACTLY what type of ""ride"" you will be going on? I hardlly call watching the weeds go back and forth a ride! Here is the link to their own website......

http://www.sdrm.org/

So after 20 minutes of watching the same things going back and forth past the windows of the caboose we walked back out into the 92* heat to our car and drove to the Casino 30 minutes away!

We didn't win anything but didn't loose either. Broke even. Had a good meal at the buffet. Got to see another person win $23,000.000 on a PENNY machine!

Needless to say we won't be recommending the train ride to anyone. Definitely not worth the HOT ride out there!