(click to enlarge)		a railroad museum - Alicia & I went down to Old Sacramento and visited the California State Railroad Museum. These were full-size trains, not model ones.
		1 All Aboard! This train is off to the City of Las Vegas. While in Vegas, watch out for the Mob, Dean Martin and radiation.
		2 Maybe Alicia's wishing she had her own sign...
		3 Because we all associate terrible stereotypes about Native Americans with the Golden Gate bridge.
		4 We all know Alicia's a rulebreaker.. here she is touching the Do Not Touch sign. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
		5 The window on this one train was too high for Alicia to look through, so I took a picture. Sorry Alicia, there weren't miniature pigs running around in circles in there like I said there were.
		6 This train museum had full-size trains, not miniature ones. Or wait, did they just have us all go through a shrink ray before we came in?
		7 Engine No. 12 famous for running over 12 antelopes while they were playing with the deer.
		8 This was one of those hot rod trains. It competed in the 1880 X Games.
		9 Alicia thought these wax figures were pretty scary. I think they escaped from Madamme Tussauds.
		10 Every entrance to the state of California has a fancy sign and a wonderfully ornate chandelier. Didn't you know?
		11 Doesn't Alicia look like she's a wax figure here herself?
		12 Don't look into the light!!!
		13 Built new 5-24. I have a sign like that on my butt, says "Built new 5-17."
		14 There was an exhibit where you could walk down under a locomotive. Alicia said it gave her the willies.
		15 Alicia's trying to see if the conductor's wearing his little stripped hat.
		16 #42. You should have seen it, much more spectacular than #41. What were they thinking?
		17 This was in the mailcar. Bags and bags of undelivered mail from the 1880s.
		18 Aren't these cool little wooden boxes/slots? They had exactly 12 of them, aren't they nifty?
		19 Sometimes if you look up, you see a bird about to poop on you. Other times, you see interesting people doing interesting things in mirrored ceilings. This time it was just a light.
		20 Another kind of slot. They had such the variety!
		21 The shinny chrome side of the dining car. Reminds me of that Civic I'm always eating McDonald's in.
		22 One of the fancy lighting features in the deco dining car. That or it's the eye of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, I'm not quite sure in retrospect.
		23 Anything look good on the kiddie menu?
		24 This is a from a series I like to call "Alicia walking up stairs."
		25 You might think this is similar to my series "Alicia goes up the stairs" but you couldn't be more wrong.
		26 Why yes, that's your great-grandfather Doug there with the fuzzy head. He always had a fuzzy head, ever since he was a kid.
		27 Ever see a locomotive from above? Ever do the locomotion with me?
		28 I just had to get Alicia in a shot with this scary wax conductor guy. I think he's giving her the look.
		29 Complete & utter clarity. Everyone, across all cultural & geopolitical boundaries, will know exactly what this sign means. Now where's the lean-to with all the women again?
		30 After the museum, we went out and sat on the grass, enjoying the warmth of the sun and some salt water taffy.
		31 They used to build their building on the side. Saved them from having to tip over in earthquakes.
		32 Just a little whiff of a cloud. Poor thing.
		33 This entry (and of course, just about everything in life) ends with a brick wall. Now you might have thought it would be wood or maybe concrete, but no, brick.