A Visit to the Vintage transport museum and gardens..

I'm about to make a thread with pictures of the small walled gardens and park area around the Museum.. not so many pics this time..
As for this forum, thanks Kaila and Old Feller for your great input..:D. please everyone, visit as many times as you wish, you'll see something different in each picture every time you come..(y)
 

The Pony Express Company was only in business for about 2 years, and their route ran from Missouri to Sacramento. Their boast was that they could deliver a letter in 10 days, over their 1800 mile route. The completion of the railway put them out of business. Link. Pony Express - Wikipedia

I think Mark Twain was fibbing if he claimed to have crossed the country on a stage coach in a week. JimB.
 
jimintoronto said:
The Pony Express Company was only in business for about 2 years, and their route ran from Missouri to Sacramento. Their boast was that they could deliver a letter in 10 days, over their 1800 mile route. The completion of the railway put them out of business. Link. Pony Express - Wikipedia

I think Mark Twain was fibbing if he claimed to have crossed the country on a stage coach in a week. JimB.
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I read Roughing it many years ago. So if I got it wrong, I'm not surprised.

There is an interesting summary article of Twain's Stagecoach trip on the internet:

Riding The Overland Stage, 1861

"The trip from St. Jo to Sacramento, California could take from 15 to 17 days."


"In 1861, Mark Twain's (real name Samuel Clemens) brother Orion was named Secretary of Nevada Territory. Twain joined his brother for the trip west.
Eleven years later Twain described his journey in the book Roughing It. Although its approach is humorous, the book's descriptions are accurate. As Twain notes in his preface, "...there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes."
 

Another photo from the Museum

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