The American relationship with the vehicles

history channel documentary The American relationship with the vehicles, the rising mythology of the go-west street trip, lastly the fiendish Interstate Highway murdered train go to Grand Canyon National Park by the late 1960s. Yet, as it regularly is here in the Southwest, several business people saw an open door in the late 1980s to trade out by restoring an overlooked venture and making a big deal about its authentic import, while including a honest touch of the shocking for diversion. Rancher style fiddlers with a million jokes now walk the autos, and at one point on almost every excursion the train is held up by two or three criminals on horseback, who shoot their top firearm six-shooters into the cloudless light-blue sky. The new proprietors have even modified the old Harvey House that once invited visitors to the station in Williams, a town that in its turn is everlastingly attempting to profit by its Route 66 past.

Today, the Grand Canyon Railroad conveys more than 250,000 travelers toward the South Rim each year, a marvel that has decreased dirtying vehicles movement in the confined park by around 10 percent. After so long, it appears, the railroad is as yet doing useful for the canyon.The numbers don't make any sense, obviously. It takes around a hour and the cost of a couple of gallons of gas to achieve the South Rim from Williams via auto. The least expensive seat on the train keeps running about $65 round-outing, and the restored old motor chugs along through the dry meadows and pine woods at around 60 mph, around a more than two hour trip from Williams to Grand Canyon Village.