Tom Gray Virginia & Truckee Railroad Tour: Virginia City, Nevada

[WineTrainDotCom]

Great seats! So convenient.

[CoastStarlight11]

@WineTrainDotCom Thanks!!! Tom Gray the guy in the video, his family (the Gray Family) owns the Virginia & Truckee RR. I actually had the opportunity to go one on one and have one of the family member owners of the RR give me a personal tour for youtube.

[WineTrainDotCom]

@CoastStarlight11 Great to see another family operated antique railroad still in business. It sure isn't easy.

[CoastStarlight11]

@WineTrainDotCom So the Wine Train is family owned correct?

[WineTrainDotCom]

@CoastStarlight11 Yes it is. :)

[CoastStarlight11]

@WineTrainDotCom Interesting. That would be cool if I could go down to the Wine train and get a tour and make a video for youtube like I did with this virginia and truckee video. I live near Carson City, Nevada and its almost 200 miles one way from my place to Napa.

[xxxDeath9572xxx]

Very interesting video!

[CoastStarlight11]

@xxxDeath9572xxx Yep. Tom Gray the guy in this video his family owns this V&T RR.

[Squawk7600]

Fantastic guided tour!! I find it fascinating that even those old glass lamp shades on the old-style lamps (by Pullman) are the originals... some of those are around 95 years old now (-wow-)!! There's a ton of history in those old cars!! Great tour!!

[CoastStarlight11]

@Squawk7600 Thanks!!!! Also here is some other info. The Gray family owns the V&T RR and the guy giving the tour was Tom Gray one of the family members who owns the V&T.

[ervans]

Great guided tour

[CoastStarlight11]

@ervans Thanks!!!!

[UnionPacific18]

How did you get in there?

[CoastStarlight11]

@UnionPacific18 I live down the road from Virginia City, Nevada and I drove there. The cars were just dropped off at this location and the steam engine had taken off and this Tom Gray was nice enough to give me a tour of the cars while they were sitting.

[trainlova12]

so these cars arent in use right?

[CoastStarlight11]

@trainlova12 Yes they are. The steam train had dropped them off in town and passengers got off just before I shot the video.

[virginiatruckee]

Score! If you don't mind me telling the story, you messaged me and I called you back, I asked who the V&T person was, turns out it was Tom Gray, I was like, "get an interview!" Good work.

Getting Tom to sit down for more than 30 seconds is a challenge! He was very nice to do this, as he had the regular runs going AND the speeder convention. There was a lot of chaos, a few of us became unoffical shuttles when the speeder folks didn't book a bus for their disable members. There was more that day.

[CoastStarlight11]

@virginiatruckee Thanks! Yeah I texted you letting you know where I was and all. It was very nice of Tom Gray to take the time to do an interview/tour video.