Sepia Saturday - 77 - 4 June 2011...All aboard....

All aboard the Sepia Saturday Express train to Happiesville!  Alan has set our theme in a direction that I wish I could take as well......even though I just got back home......it's so much fun traveling!  Especially by train!

If you want to join in on this train/Sepia/anything theme/ and fantastic fun then just go here
http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2011/05/sepia-saturday-77-saturday-4-june-2011.html

"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.  Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas!...we return."  - Edward Morgan Forster



   Since Alan's theme opens up the railroad of course there are so many ways one could journey!  So let's begin with a group of happy go lucky Minnesotans!

courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

Hugs and Kisses!...Sending their loved ones off to war, (members of the Semper Fidelis Club, St. Paul) saying farewell to young Marines in 1942.

and on a funny, yet normal kind of Minnesota day.....we have just a typical day of......

courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

"The Fish Train!"  It appears quite a catch can be had with only 1 1/2 hours of fishing on Leech Lake in 1896.

Okay, enough silly stuff....how about some educational clips......

courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

Our famous "Stone Arch Bridge" located in Minneapolis about 1900

it crosses the Great "Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis and was built in 1883 by railroad tycoon, James. J. Hill for his (famous) Great Northern Railway.

and keeping the path of trains in the family James J. Hill's grandson also featured...

courtesy of Ramsey County Historical Society

This is a Prototype of a streamlined passenger coach next to a standard railroad coach of the 1930's at Inglewood, California.  It was designed by Cortlandt Hill, grandson of James J. Hill and at 32,000 pounds, this bullet-shaped coach was one-fifth the weight of the older coach. 
Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars resembling ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train.  Here is a link for an interesting article, about it:  Transport: Jounceless- Time http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758983,00.html

...and from my own family album....

My grandparents (from my mother's side) in 1954 Cologne Central Train Station, Koln Hauptbahnhof.

and this train ride will end after we stop by a private railroad track known only to my cousin, Jorg and his most intimate family members......taken sometime in the 50's......

Oh what fun I'm sure he had with his very own private railway system!

I hope you all enjoyed your brief ride.....and come back and join us again and again...as often as you'd like!