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HarmBotjes@mastodon.nl

Harm Botjes @HarmBotjes@mastodon.nl

Nostalgia #spoorwegmuseum #utrecht

CathyTuttle

Cathy Tuttle @CathyTuttle

@garland I geeked out at the #Spoorwegmuseum #Railway Museum yesterday!

History of #Trains in an actual train yard and #train station. Excellent!

Brief history of the white guys who pushed the boundaries of train travel. speed and safety. I wonder if they were all as full of themselves as the guy on the lower right.

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I totally geeked out on the draisines! A new vocabulary word! Draisines are the handcars used to let people inspect rails and do minor repairs as they go along train tracks.

Considered the forerunner of the bicycle. Light enough to be lifted off the tracks when a train approached. This one was hand-cranked by a crew in the back while the inspector sat in the front bench.

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Until recently there was a 10-minute spur line from Utrecht Centraal direct to the entry of the Spoorweegmuseum. Here's some of the dozens of historic trains on tracks outside under a dramatic sky.

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Elegant dining cars, conference rooms, libraries, and velvet-lined seats on some of the elegant trains of the past like these plush-upholstered wooden seats inside the Orient Express.

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