Monday, August 1, 2011
Photo Non-Contest #156 -- Red
The theme at Written Inc. this week is "red." Easy enough.
Engine 119, one of the two original engines (now restored) that met for the driving of the Golden Spike on May 10, 1869, joining the first transcontinental railroad. Taken at Promontory Point, Utah.
The Samurai: a potentially nausea-inducing ride at Lagoon amusement park in Farmington, Utah.
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Ahh, the Samurai. You'll never catch me on that thing. It's not the height, it's not the going upside down. It's the spinning on several axes at the same time. Sensory overload. But a great picture anyhow. And the train too.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos! I love the engine... would NOT want to ride on the other machine...
ReplyDeleteNice engine - but do you mean to tell me people actually RIDE on that thing??
ReplyDeleteA lovely shiny red engine! As a vertigo sufferer I’d be avoiding the Samurai for all the obvious reasons :)
ReplyDeleteThe Samurai looks as if it might be made of Lego bricks. You would not get me on that.
ReplyDeleteYes, Max, that's it, exactly. Before my back injury, I used to ride it with the academic team on Lagoon days (now I have an excuse to skip that one). It's rather akin to being a grasshopper in the mouth of a playful cat and being shaken all over the place before the kill.
ReplyDeleteThat engine makes me swoon. The irony of where this picture was taken isn't lost on me: Isn't Promontory, UT also where ATK built and test-fired the SRBs for the shuttle program?
ReplyDeleteAmazing history of transportation there, and I hope there are still more chapters to be written.
I'll stay off the ride, though. I get sick just thinking about it :)
Yes, it is where the shuttle parts were manufactured, including the disastrous rings that didn't fit and caused the blow up of the shuttle in the 1980s.
ReplyDeleteThe plant is several miles away from where the trains are, though. And there really isn't much of a town in Promontory anymore.