Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Better
Today was Realize Day for me, the day when you are going about your tasks and suddenly realize that for the first time in several weeks, you feel reasonably healthy! I'm so very glad to see it coming around again!
Did some time traveling this evening, with Mr. Mike. Some of the train videos he ordered with his birthday money arrived, and one featured two pretty neat old films. The first one was a travelogue cum advertisement which followed the Missouri Pacific (and several subsidiaries) from St. Louis, though the Royal Gorge, up to Aspen for some reason, then across to San Francisco via Salt Lake City. It was neat seeing the old round-end buses and cars, and a few sights of places we have seen more or less recently.
Then we saw a vintage safety film for railroad employees, about a train wreck that happened here in Colorado in 1956. They basically recreated the scenes leading up to it and then showed the clean-up, all the while harping on how expensive it all was, and how ticked the guys who got hurt (happily no one killed) were at the two men in the cab who got to yakking and didn't see a yellow signal telling them to slow down. Very cool look at how the 'modern' railroad worked behind the scenes half a century ago!
Did some time traveling this evening, with Mr. Mike. Some of the train videos he ordered with his birthday money arrived, and one featured two pretty neat old films. The first one was a travelogue cum advertisement which followed the Missouri Pacific (and several subsidiaries) from St. Louis, though the Royal Gorge, up to Aspen for some reason, then across to San Francisco via Salt Lake City. It was neat seeing the old round-end buses and cars, and a few sights of places we have seen more or less recently.
Then we saw a vintage safety film for railroad employees, about a train wreck that happened here in Colorado in 1956. They basically recreated the scenes leading up to it and then showed the clean-up, all the while harping on how expensive it all was, and how ticked the guys who got hurt (happily no one killed) were at the two men in the cab who got to yakking and didn't see a yellow signal telling them to slow down. Very cool look at how the 'modern' railroad worked behind the scenes half a century ago!
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