But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?
I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.
Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)
A few weeks after a Fuel City taco fillup in Texas, I found myself back in Paris, with an al pastor craving that wouldn't go away. With nary a taco stand in sight, and certainly not a truck stop selling tacos, I decided to give it a go myself.
Not having enough money in her change-purse to pay for them, she took a roll of bills from a bill-fold in her inner pocket, and, taking five dollars from the roll, returned it to its place of safety in the lining of her coat.
