Reports, reviews, and experiences at or about museums
This is a photograph of locomotive #31, a Baldwin, on the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The locomotive was built in Philadelphia in 1908.
This photo was snapped along the “Road to Paradise”, which is Strasburg’s line from the Strasburg station to Paradise along Route 30 in Lancaster County. The filmstock was Kodak Kodacolor Gold 35mm. I recently scanned it from the original negative. This image has been mildly touched up in Photoshop to correct color shift and aging.
If you are a fan of the great movie Grand Prix (1966, staring James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and others) you are probably familiar with racing cars similar to the one on the right. This is a BRM P56 race car from 1961. It is one of the …
On the right is a photo of Lewis Hamilton’s 2010 Mercedes MP4 25A racing car with which he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and the Belgium Grand Prix. This is the sort of car that you see racing on the TV (unless you are lucky and rich enough …
Visitors from the US to the UK who elect to drive tend to want to lock themselves into their hotel or B & B room after their first adventure on the roads. It is not that the drivers are nuts, which they aren’t, or even that driving on the opposite …
This is the Charnwood Museum located in the lovely Queen’s Park in Loughborough, UK. Loughborough is in the Charnwood Borough, which is in Leicestershire in England. The museum features local history and more. On the day I explored the park the sun was out and bright. Families were enjoying the …
The Spirit of Santa Monica is a Douglas DC3 on stands in front of the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport. This is especially appropriate as the airport was the home of Douglas Aircraft through World War II. The statue in from of the airplane is of Donald …
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. This is the building for the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport, and it has the nose of a Fed-X 727 protruding. At first it looks like either the coolest advertisement or the worst parking job in history. As it …
I had occasion to visit the Flight Path Learning Center and Museum at Los Angeles International Airport (http://flightpathmuseum.com/) recently. This was a return visit, I was last there a couple of years ago. One of the many things they had on display was this extremely interesting model of a Stinson …
