My Trip to California, Post 5: A tree and a train

I remember seeing logging trucks in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970’s with huge trees – so big that they could only get three on the entire truck. I almost think I saw a truck with just one enormous log once, but I’m not sure, I might have imagined it. It was a long time ago. Now the trucks carry much smaller trees. Once upon a time, the trees really were that big.

It’s sad that we cut the old growth down. It’s rare to see a tree of this size anymore. We don’t have trees – or any kind of wildlife – the way we used to. I don’t think most of us can even comprehend what it was like before the loss of most of the wildlife. Huge old forests full of wild creatures have become a thing of mythology.

This is the Skunk Train.

It’s a tourist train that was stationed immediately outside our living room window (photos and video taken from our window). The train was actually rather loud inside our place. I’m not sure why all the racket wasn’t picked up by my video. You can hear the little toot at the end of the second video, but it was much louder in person. My phone must have been filtering it all out as background noise.

And once again, I win the award for most boring videos. Youtubers would have jumped out the living room window waving a cowboy hat and landed on the train 😉

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