A Sunday Trip to the Tanque Verde Swap Meet

The temperatures at night are still falling to around freezing, but each day is getting warmer.  Sunday the temp was due to rise above 60 degrees so we headed toward Tucson to their weekend Swap Meet.

We have seen much bigger flea markets in the Southwest but there was still plenty of merchandise, both old and new, to pick from.

The flea markets down here have much different "junk" than you can find up in Michigan.  Anybody need a  good steel cactus or copper javelina?

 Both Karen and Bill found a few items that they could not do without.  Furthermore, you can't beat the prices.

Sometimes you can find that rare item that you never see in the normal retail outlets.

Between Benson and Tucson were were amazed to see hundreds of railroad locomotives parked in a tight line along a side track sitting idle.  Without exaggeration, the line was more than a mile long. Notice how the engines go clear back and out of the top left of the picture above.  It appears that this desert area is a great place to park equipment for storage until they are again needed.