Chains, Trains, and... er... Auto De Fe?

[pyat]

Today was... an interesting day....




Yes, we went to a wedding, at the little Heritage Village I like! The one with a tiny train station, covered bridge, and circa 19th century villages.

And, PS, a train!


For sake of comparison, I am six feet tall. And that's the "little end" of the steam engine.


velvetpage wore contacts for the first time in ages.


The girls like the horse and buggy.


I'd work here...


What heritage centre is complete without a rusting lock-up cage in a wooded area?

Comments

[foomf.livejournal.com]

What a day, what a day, for an auto-da-fé!


That is a nice little cage there. One hopes it was for training grapevines or roses over?

The lovely velvetpage looks almost bridal in the white, and you're looking fairly formal as well, so I conjecture you were both participating in some fashion other than as general witnesses?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

One hopes it was for training grapevines or roses over?

Nope - it's some kind of lock-up thing, presumably used in small towns to temporarily hold people before trial.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

So, a mini-Gitmo. Hopefully not used in hard winters although I imagine it would be safe in lightning storms.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Well, it was a family wedding, so we were in at least one picture with my cousins. Myself and my siblings, and the bride and her sister, make up all the cousins on that side of the family, so there was a picture.

Other than that, we weren't involved.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Still a good occasion for dressing up.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what we thought. :)

[used_songs]

What a beautiful train! When I was a kid one of the many careers I considered (spy, mafia member, astronaut, artist, etc) was that of an engineer on such a train as that.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You'd have to travel back in time, I fear!

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Or move to India!

[used_songs]

If my TARDIS ever arrives, I may go. I've always wanted to live in the past and the present and the future.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the auto-da-fe!

The auto-da-fe, what's the auto-da-fe? It's what you oughtn't do but you do anyway!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Only decent part of that movie!

[kfops.livejournal.com]

That engine rocks!

I so loved steam engines as a child, and in the last few years am sort've re-remembering this.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

You and my husband are united in your love of steam trains. When he was in Austria, he lingered so long in a railyard that finally the engineers offered to (and did) fire up the other train and pull it out of the shed so he could take photographs and generally admire it. He sure loves him a train.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Has he heard of the "train cemetery" in the Atacama Desert? It's a large train station, used as a terminus for shipping minerals of some kind from mines in the desert. When the mines closed, it was simply abandoned, and the extreme dry conditions have preserved it as a kind of "ghost station."

Images here! (http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/dmp3380/world_tour_06-7/1179417600/imgp0501.jpg/tpod.html)

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

velvetpage always wears such pretty, flattering clothes in the pictures you guys post of her :).

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Thank you!