As you know, Nicholas the Rambunctious needs outings like whales need minnows. And today was a free day at the B&O Railroad Museum, so it was the perfect opportunity to make the trip. Plus, Grandpa Dan was in the mood to play hooky from work, so he joined us for a little guys' trip to the train museum.
It's a small museum, with only a few small exhibits, but it has a large number of old train locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, railway post office cars, basically anything associated with railroading in the first 150 years of train travel in the U.S. In that respect, it will probably be more thrilling for Nicholas in a year or so. Right now, he doesn't find the motionless hulks very interesting in the way that he does the moving fish in tanks at the aquarium (to take one example). But we had a good time, and it definitely merits another trip, especially since he got cranky before we could look at everything. Plus, they sometimes offer train rides! And, next spring, there's a Thomas the Tank Engine Day, which should come right on [railroad standard] time for Nicholas to be thrilled by such things.
Finally, as a rule I am required to take photos whenever Nicholas and I go somewhere without Sarah, so I present one from today, with others available to the right in the Peanut Gallery.
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| From Nicholas - Month 5 |
Nicholas will also be happy to know that the B&O Museum houses both the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Collection and the John Work Garrett Papers, valuable sources should he want to undertake a project concerning the history of the B&O. The highlights of their holdings are the minute books, offering valuable insight into the day-to-day activities of the railroad. Tell Nicholas to contact the archivist, John Maranto - archivist1@borail.org. He's a nice guy, and very helpful.
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