Titanic Quarter–Belfast, Northern Ireland
The first thing I am told, before I ventured into the confines of Titanic Belfast, the city’s newest exhibition, is that it’s not a museum. Continue reading “Titanic Belfast: A Review” »
Albion
The parking garage where I keep my car was going to be painted and I had to move it for the day. I thought it was the perfect excuse to get out of town for the day.
On a recent trip to Wales I was allowed into the locomotive car to see the engineers at work. The Talylynn Railway is a narrow gauge track and it used to be used to carry slate from the slate mines.
This video is a little shaky, and a little on the long side, as Internet videos go, but I think its pretty interesting. You can see the countryside going by, and you also learn a good bit about driving a train.
If this gets you excited, you can take your train fetish even further and go to Wales and ride on them. (There are lots of them.) This particular line has been in continuous operation since 1865.
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