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| Best Friend, Charleston, S.C. |
I am a bit of a train buff. I am not freaky about them, but I do like them and have ridden on some very cool trains and routes. It caught my attention the the
Best Friend of Charleston replica was coming home and when I had dinner at
Rue De Jean on Friday night I spotted the colorful engine in the building across the street and caught a picture through the glass with my handy pocket camera.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston's second best friend is coming home.
An 85-year-old replica of the Best Friend of
Charleston, the first train in the nation to offer regularly scheduled
passenger service, returns to Charleston this weekend. The replica of the engine, tender and two passenger
cars, based on the original plans, will be installed in a new free city
museum in one of five old railroad sheds dating to the 1800s. The new
museum is the last of the buildings to be refurbished during the past
two decades; the first was the nearby city Visitor Center that opened
back in 1991.
The replica "is an important part of Charleston
history," Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said Tuesday. "We're very proud to
install it in a historically appropriate and a very accessible place."
The steam-powered Best Friend of Charleston made its
inaugural trip along a 6-mile stretch of track reaching northwest from
Charleston on Christmas Day, 1830. The Charleston Courier reported at the time that "the
one hundred and forty-one persons flew on the wings of wind at the speed
of fifteen to twenty-five miles per hour, annihilating time and space."
The "Wings of Wind". How lovely that sounds.Welcome home!
1 comment:
That's something entirely different! Good shot!
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