Ran across something called the "Skunk Train", and am thinking that is not the best marketing name for a train ride. #railroads #tourism
@ai6yr @yoused
If you explore Fort Bragg a little more, you will run across something called Glass Beach. Now, it is part of McKerricher Beach State Park. People come from all over the world to explore and marvel at the bits of glass that are all that remains from the town dump where we dumped our garbage back in the 50s and 60s.
@dougfir @ai6yr @yoused To be clear, these days is just a Pacific cliffside beach with lots of weathered glass. It’s been cleaned up of the big detritus and made into a park.
But honestly not sure what the locals were thinking when they had the bright idea to throw their garbage off a cliff into the Pacific in the first place.
@dougfir @joy @yoused My friends and I used to hang out in the canyons near where I grew up in Salt Lake City, which were randomly strewn with old cars and tin cans, along with other detritus. It seems like that was the usual. I wonder what ever happened to all those old cars, or if they just covered them up with dirt when they put houses there.
@yoused LOL my thought was it was because there are a lot of people growing weed in Mendocino and it smells like skunk there, but... no. Per the train line:
"
The nickname “Skunk” originated in 1925, when motorcars were introduced (today sometimes referred to as railbuses or railcruisers). These single unit, self-propelled motorcars had gasoline-powered engines for power and pot-bellied stoves burning crude oil to keep the passengers warm.
The combination of the fumes created a very pungent odor, and the old timers living along the line said these motorcars were like skunks, “You could smell them before you could see them.” "
https://www.skunktrain.com/about/