2023 Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad Steam Locmotive in Yosemite National Park California

My wife and I spent the morning on the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine railway. We were on our way into Yosemite National Park from the south and this is a highly recommended stop. You can buy seats in a restored fancy caboose. The engine is a 1928 narrow gauge Shay built by Lima in Ohio. The drive system uses a bizarre side gear system. It is actually 12 wheel drive to handle steep hillsides carrying heavy loads of logs. Unbelievably interesting. As a special treat they had the engine hooked up to the back where we were riding in the caboose.

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😅 that's a nice train you know what kind of sickens me that are towns in our cities cannot look like this why cannot we live with nature and not against it and push it back and back and further away I don't understand why people cannot live in harmony with nature why do the roads have to be tar why can't they be dirt why do the sidewalks have to be concrete when they can be grass

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I just I don't know it just looks too fake to me