Well I wait around the train station: austin

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Well I wait around the train station

Jan 10, 2025 00:10

I figured I could get another week's worth of retrospective nonsense out on my humor blog, so that's what I did. That, some MiSTing, and a Rex Morgan report make up nearly all this past week's pieces there. Do you see the exception? Look close and see if you can find the outlier ...

And now a dozen Camden Park pictures, showing what the inspiration for the Fallout 76 park looks like in reality. Or did all the way back in June.

Here's the station for the chair ride, which we did not go on ... at that moment. We were looking instead for ...

This! They have a miniature train ride around the north- and eastern-end of the park, the one with fewer rides better spaced out.

Here's a couple people looking at a park map. Note that it is an extremely faded, sun-bleached park map, unlike (trust me) the identical map on the other side of the post. I don't know why they would have gone to the faded map when the unfaded one is easier to get to, with sidewalk in front of it and everything. Also I don't know why one side of the map would be so badly faded when they're both in the same sun and rain and everything. I guess one side must have been a lot older than the other.

Here's that miniature train, doing its darndest to get to us!

The engineer's booth on the train.

And oh, don't you like bunches of big chunky metal to pull around like that?

The trains have this vinyl-printed CP wrapping that threw us every time because of its resemblance to the circular-bullet Cedar Point ``CP'' logo. It'd make a nice floor tile too.

Flowers seen through the passenger parts of the train. The top warns you to watch your head and I did, bonking it only on my way out.

Here's a view of several cars ahead of our seat.

And we're off! Here's a view of the Li'l Dipper seen through a fence.

And here's a view of the log flume and, beyond that, the Paratrooper ride.

There's this little ghost of a road to the left of the train racks. I believe we saw a groundhog hanging out here, briefly.

Trivia: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, established 1915, had no official seal or insigna before a wings design was established as the insigna in 1941. It would be another decade before the NACA had an official seal. The NACA was dissolved (becoming part of the National Air and Space Administration), making seal and insignia irrelevant except for historical purposes, in 1958. Source: Emblems of Exploration: Logos of the NACA and NASA, Joseph R Chambers, Mark A Chambers. Monographs in Aerospace History number 56.

Currently Reading: Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman.

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