Twain and Train

Talk about two extremes... first up is this photo of the beautiful 19th-century style sternwheeler as it rests in Fowler's Harbor. They're scraping the audio-animatronic barnacles off of it, I'm guessing. Either that or this is when they replaced the steam boiler with that atomic job. The Gullywhumper sits behind the Twain, like an anxious relative at the hospital (I'm pretty sure it is reading a copy of "People" magazine).


And now we leap forward to the exciting World of Tomorrow circa 1960 for a look at the equally beautiful 3-car red Mark I Monorail. It's just leaving the station for a trip around the concrete beamway - the spiel referred to it as "the highway in the sky", but nobody else did. By golly, if I was feeling blue, this picture would turn my frown upside-down.