Happy Fourth of
July! We thought this was going to be a
day of rest, but it didn’t turn out that way.
We did laundry at a Laundromat in the morning and toured a museum in the
afternoon. We noted an obvious contrast in
how washing clothes was done 125 years ago versus today.
Before heading off
to the Lincoln County Historical Museum in the afternoon, we went to the Golden
Spike Tower overlooking the world’s largest classification train yard (over 8 miles in length and 2 miles wide). This train yard does not build a train of
cars, but can separate a train of cars off on a separate track. This yard does major refueling, is Union
Pacific’s largest repair facility, and is a location for changing crews. They also scan the barcodes on each car that
goes through the yard.
The museum had a
wonderful collection of buildings. The
building in picture dates back to 1869, so could have been seen by the Parcels
as they passed through North Platte.
The family did
not stay in North Platte but camped in the rolling sand hills north of the
city.
No comments:
Post a Comment