These are not the red cars built
in the 1920's that were running when I was a kid. These are brand
new reproductions of the cars that were in use 100 years ago.
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The cars use this siding for passing.
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There are two of the red cars running
on about a mile of track. The conductor said there are plans
to extend the line to Wilmington.
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The original blueprints were used
to make these new cars, which are absolutely beautiful.
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A battleship mast and anchors from
the New Jersey decorate the waterfront. In the distance is the
old ferry building where we used to drive onto the ferry to ride
to Terminal Island. The building is now a museum.
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This is one of the New Jersey's
sixteen inch guns and one of the big shells it fired.
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This statue is a monument to sailors
of the merchant marine.
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The Autry Museum in Griffith Park
features great western art and other artifacts of the Old West.
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Gene is singing "Back in the
saddle Again".
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Sessue Foster and my old friend
Michael C. Ford were featured in a Saturday poetry reading at
the museum. Here Ford holds forth with a very well-received piece
about Roy Rogers movies.
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Leaving California, we get an early
morning view of Mount San Jacinto from a rest area in Banning
Pass.
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