I finally broke down and bought myself a really nice camera. It's a Nikon D200 DSLR with an 18-200 VR lens. I've had a couple of Nikon CoolPix cameras and I've had an old Minolta SLR film camera but nothing in the same class with the D200. It rocks to say the least.
When you get a new toy you have to use it! My brother-in-law and I packed up and went to Cass, West Virginia. It's just on the other side of the mountain from "you can't get there from here". Cass is the home of the
Cass Scenic Railroad. It's a State Park that contains an almost fully preserved logging town from the early 1900's. They also have eight fully operational steam powered locomotives that make daily runs up and down the mountains.