| I spent this past weekend in Galveston which turned out to be great fun. While I was really there for my other job, I took a bit of time to do a bit of research. They have this wonderful train museum and since I'm currently working on a story for an anthology about heroines who once rode the orphan train, I was very excited about taking pictures of the trains. |  |
So . . . I'm going to post a few of the more modern train pictures here, then post the images that most resemble the trains from the 1870's on the orphan train blog.
 | This is a picture of the 555, a 1922 steam engine that was one of the last revenue engines in service in the US. |
The next pictures are of the interior because when I tried to do a search for the interior of trains, I came up empty handed. I'm hoping others will be able to learn from these.
| This image is of the inside of a mail carrying car. Further into the car, they had a row of slots with names for each town on their route |  |
 | Check out the galley. Can you imagine cooking while the train rumbled across the tracks? I actually got to ride the George Bush train to Dallas and it built up quite a bit of speed on the straight tracks. |
 | And last, but not least, enjoy a picture of a sleeping room. My mother was big on "experiences" so she booked us on a two-day train ride when I was about 12 just so I could say I slept on a moving train. The room was very similar to this one and yes, being the child, I got to sleep on the top bunk. Needless to say, I don't think I slept much that night. |
Be sure to check out the orphan train blog tomorrow for more train pics. The ones I post there will be of an earlier era; 1890's.
2 comments:
Interesting visit that you had and the photos are extremely lovely. I enjoyed those pics of bygone eras.
Thanks Anne. It was fun climbing through these trains and imagining what it must have been like traveling 100 years ago.
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