We took advantage of the nice weather and made a day trip out to Byesville (near Hellotown) for their annual Steam and Mining festival today. We were both noobs there, but we fit in all right. It was fun - an hour long train ride, with narrators in the cars who told the story of the railiroad and the mines that operated in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The fun thing is everything there is hands on - you can even get up into the engineer's cab (I didn't have time to before they were stoking the boiler for the next run). They hold it every year, but I figured with the economy the way it is, a volunteer run operation might have to cut back after this season. But who cares? It's a big goddamn steam engine!
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