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So yeah, my dad has been like, IN LOVE, with the Instagram app on his new iPhone.
While we were in Huntington, West Virginia, in June, moving my sister into her new apartment, we wanted to check out some places, since we've never been there before. We found this neat little visitor center / mall area, that sold nothing but local, handmade items, and had a cafe with a giant model train track running through it, all along the ceiling. And yes, it was operational.
Anyway, in front of the place, were two NOT operational trains. They were pretty rusted and run-down looking. Not to mention, stupid people had the wits to actually vandalize the beautiful, historical things. But I was in AWE at the trains. They were legit trains from the early days. Like, this place USED to be a train station, waaaaay back in the day, but after it lost business, it was taken over multiple times, until it finally ended up as what it is today. I asked my dad, while he was in his little Instagram phase, to take a few pictures of me on the train.
I actually really liked this one. So yeah. This is me, on an old train.
I like trains.
Photo © Mi papa
While we were in Huntington, West Virginia, in June, moving my sister into her new apartment, we wanted to check out some places, since we've never been there before. We found this neat little visitor center / mall area, that sold nothing but local, handmade items, and had a cafe with a giant model train track running through it, all along the ceiling. And yes, it was operational.
Anyway, in front of the place, were two NOT operational trains. They were pretty rusted and run-down looking. Not to mention, stupid people had the wits to actually vandalize the beautiful, historical things. But I was in AWE at the trains. They were legit trains from the early days. Like, this place USED to be a train station, waaaaay back in the day, but after it lost business, it was taken over multiple times, until it finally ended up as what it is today. I asked my dad, while he was in his little Instagram phase, to take a few pictures of me on the train.
I actually really liked this one. So yeah. This is me, on an old train.
I like trains.
Photo © Mi papa
Category Photography / Human
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File Size 503.3 kB
Was looking for furs from West Virginia, and found this instead. I love trains also. As I am originally from Baltimore, MD, let me suggest the B&O Railroad museum. They have a period round house full of operational condition trains going back to the Civil War. Also in West Virginia there is the CASS Scenic Railway (there are nice pictures of this searchable on flickr). They have a bunch or working steam engines. I used to help restore trains as a hobby job a long time ago. There are also a few sites near me that do this sort of thing as well, with rail tours as a side line.
Anyway, have a great time exploring this.
=^'.'^= NekoYuki_Kun
Anyway, have a great time exploring this.
=^'.'^= NekoYuki_Kun
when i was little my dad worked for the railroad, in the stations and switch towers, well he did that the rest of his working life. when i was born in 1948, there was still a lot of steam in operation, though it was already being displaced by pretty colored diesels. by the time i started kindergarten it had mostly been religated to secondary duties, and by the time i reached third grade, in the mid 50s, it was nearly all on the scrap line. when i was in high school i was a member of a rail fan society, that would go on field trips and show movies and slides members had taken at meetings every month. i didn't have the same infatuation with steam most of the older members did, but rather considered the railway as a form of transportation much kinder to the environment then what the dominance of the automobile has become, and still do.
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