moving right along

i told myself a while ago i was going to do more with my time. there’s a part of me that wishes my friends and i would still do things - any ‘things’. but life, work, kids.... Warcraft.... people just don’t do things anymore. so i made a list of random crap that i’m going to do solo, today was the first.

today i made a late afternoon run to the Museum of Transportation, and i have to say it was kinda cool. the place has a huge variety of trains from the past of a lot of varieties - above you see picture of a rotary snow plow engine, this badass machine is like 16’ tall and was made to plow through drifts almost as tall. crazy. since i’m on a train almost every week, i asked the conductors about it, and apparently they’re used to following these plows through mountain passes where drifts and avalanches will cover the tracks. one even told me a story about how the freight train in front of them was caught in an avalanche, which could have easily been them. they finished by telling me it was worth taking that train for the views. i may add it to the list.

also at the museum of transportation was a collection of cars, a tug boat, and a WW2 era plane - but the collection of trains was really the meat of it, and worth the trip in itself. that, and the section of the Coral Court Motel they saved. awesome.