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Friday,
May 6, 2016: This was the first day of the summer
season for
North Shore Scenic Railroad Train Excursions. It is a part of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in downtown Duluth, Minnesota. |
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Number 193, the Messabe is a diesel/electric locomotive.
She is over 50 years old and purrs along.
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Quick, Paula, there's the conductor. "All Aboard,"
he announced. Time to get on the train for a 90 minute ride. |
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Everyone was waving, the train engineer
waved back. |
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It was a warm day with temperature in the high 80s, which was
unseasonably warm. No one complained. Fishermen were headed out too. |
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The train ran up the north shore of Lake Superior. |
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The conductor was watching everyone while they were looking
outside and enjoying the weather. |
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It was all over too soon. The train headed back past the
Vietnam War Memorial on the Lakewalk. It is a shelter looking out over the
water. The shelter/bunker has holes to see out and gives visitors a sense of what a lonely soldier might have felt while on guard in that far away country. |
Quote of the day:
History is all around us. Mark
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Questions, Comments? Email Mark Persons teki@mwpersons.com |
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