tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post48836335624313976..comments2024-01-09T00:41:17.570+01:00Comments on Kolo kolo mlynsky :::: Steam Train to Křivoklát and an Advent FairJuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-7809275373752606842012-12-18T13:49:19.370+01:002012-12-18T13:49:19.370+01:00ML - Polar Express might just be showing up under ...ML - Polar Express might just be showing up under the tree this year! <br /><br />Robbie - My camera led me astray, it always wants closer and closer shots. After reading Captains Courageous many times, I think you're absolutely right about robber barons and their relationships to trains (and boats of course). <br /><br />Paola - once spring arrives it seems as if the steam trains travel twice a month or so almost for the rest of the year. <br /><br />RW - We were running around between multiple concerts and parties on Sunday, but stole 30 minutes to light our wreath and enjoy coffee together. A still moment in Advent is so wonderful.<br /><br />GG - I'd like to take that trip too, some of my friends have been on something similar and very much loved it. Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-28357374961696508222012-12-18T13:49:18.761+01:002012-12-18T13:49:18.761+01:00ML - Polar Express might just be showing up under ...ML - Polar Express might just be showing up under the tree this year! <br /><br />Robbie - My camera led me astray, it always wants closer and closer shots. After reading Captains Courageous many times, I think you're absolutely right about robber barons and their relationships to trains (and boats of course). <br /><br />Paola - once spring arrives it seems as if the steam trains travel twice a month or so almost for the rest of the year. <br /><br />RW - We were running around between multiple concerts and parties on Sunday, but stole 30 minutes to light our wreath and enjoy coffee together. A still moment in Advent is so wonderful.<br /><br />GG - I'd like to take that trip too, some of my friends have been on something similar and very much loved it. Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-47832131791308636612012-12-17T23:40:44.024+01:002012-12-17T23:40:44.024+01:00Trains are so romantic and wonderful. My fantasy ...Trains are so romantic and wonderful. My fantasy vacation involves a train trip through the Canadian Rockies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-9627256724096029862012-12-16T13:49:09.331+01:002012-12-16T13:49:09.331+01:00Oh, I miss train rides and stations. In Japan, the...Oh, I miss train rides and stations. In Japan, the <i>Shinkansen</i> was a marvel of silent power, but I did miss the huffing and puffing of the dragon.<br /><br />Advent! Advent! Das dritte Lichtlein brennt!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-68682150487342815792012-12-16T11:51:19.787+01:002012-12-16T11:51:19.787+01:00Yet another thing to do to add to my Prague list!Yet another thing to do to add to my Prague list!Paolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16106203770822701470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-48158171338417976932012-12-16T08:11:32.772+01:002012-12-16T08:11:32.772+01:00Thank goodness for Will. It's one thing to rea...Thank goodness for Will. It's one thing to read about Anna, quite another to imitate her.<br /><br />Nice to see that your steam-fed ecstasy didn't get in the way of your camera hand and that some truly beautiful pix (esp no. 2) emerged. Nice too that your party didn't include a heart-breaking pragmatist (eg, me, for instance) maintaining a threnody that present-day diesel locomotives, like boxes on wheels, unwreathed in white clouds, not given to ear-blasting sounds, are rather more powerful than these monsters from another age. However, had I been there, and had I been told to shut up and not rain on everyone's parade, I would have pointed out that steam does have one spectacular advantage over the internal combustion engine: a steam train doesn't require a gearbox. Thus when the power is fed to the wheels at standstill, and despite the huge weight of attached carriages, the drive wheels spin in fury against the rail because the system is able to apply full power at virtually zero kph. A drag race where time doesn't matter<br /><br />Nice too that this clear case of seduction left the brain functioning as always. Your remark about the 19th century is well-marked and may I add a small coda. In the USA that was the time of robber barons, some of them associated with railways. But I wonder if there was an underlying, basically loving, attitude towards these smoking behemoths that managed - by a sort of intellectual diffraction - to turn those rapacious criminals into something more like rogues.<br /><br />And finally, even if I had been able to write something as good, seamlessly turning enthusiasm into well-judged prose, you would have pulled effortlessly away with "and only hear the the lonely third wavering as it rushes into the hillside". A knowledge of intervals leaves everyone else breathing your dust.<br /><br />PS. Yes to Monet, yes to E. NesbitRoderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472241.post-82938753543863325302012-12-16T00:38:19.434+01:002012-12-16T00:38:19.434+01:00Ooh, that sounds fabulous and romantic (except the...Ooh, that sounds fabulous and romantic (except the fumes, of course). It's been decades since I've been on one of those. <br /><br />This also reminded me of the animated film 'The Polar Express' , the children would love it and I did too. Of course there are numerous movies centered on trains...marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com