Mine Train & Cascade Peak, August 1961
I have two very nice photos of the Mine Train as it circled Cascade Peak, circa 1961 (when Nature's Wonderland was only about a year old).
I'm guessing our photographer was on Tom Sawyer Island, and he grabbed a quick shot of the very nice scene across the river, marred a little bit by the crewcut-headed boy in the lower left. Darn kid! Shouldn't he be in military school? Somehow, Cascade Peak looks particularly big here (look at the tiny people in the train), I'm sure it helps that the surrounding trees were still small and appropriately-scaled.
Luckily, we get another photo, taken from a lower vantage point (though still on TSI, I guess?), with the plucky little Mine Train chugging its way through spectacular vistas populated with many photogenic critters.
3 comments:
Major-
Two days in-a-row of Cascade Peak. It's a Cascade Peak-palooza-!
Thanks, Major.
Yep, that's the same falls from yesterday's post. We can see the second "sister" falls, to the left, in both pics. Although, we can just make out a sliver of it in the first pic. The falls to the right (in the second pic), would be "Big Thunder" falls, which was discussed yesterday.
Bring back the Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland, I say! Yeah, like that would ever happen!
Thanks, Major!
Wow, these are nice photos! My first thought was that these look like an elaborate model train setup. My second thought was that, at least the crewcut-headed kid had the good sense to make himself blurry so as to inflict minimal damage to the scene. My third thought was, where are the bighorn sheep? Shouldn't they be leaping from rocky outcrop to rocky outcrop? My fourth thought was, I think we can see the water gong today(?). It isn't red but it's to the left of the Falls. My fifth thought was that, when you mention "trees" and "scale" in the same sentence, you're gonna get all sorts of comments from the Jr. Gs about trees having no scale. BUT NOT FROM ME! No siree! I'm more geniuser than that! My sixth thought was that I'm probably wrong about the water gong again. My seventh thought was that I should move on to the second photo.
I suppose there are "photogenic critters" somewhere along the plucky little Train's route... but not here! I don't see no critters here nohow! Even the AEDs are AWOL.
I'll say it again: Wow! these are nice photos! Thanks, Major.
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