Scattered Thoughts . . .

Y ou don't really realize it while you are walking around Carillon Park, but there are quite a few historic bridges in this park.  They sort of get lost to the main points of interest and get treated more like a way to get from one point of interest to another.  I've included a few bridges here... This lightweight steel truss bridge, below, is from 1881 and was designed and built by the Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton.  The building straight ahead is the Transportation Center which is really a locomotive roundhouse.  There are tracks that allow display trains to move in and out of the Transportation Center.   Now we are walking underneath the Columbia Bridge Works lightweight steel truss bridge...   This last photo isn't of any historic bridge but it is a bit of bridgework nonetheless so I included it here in this blog entry.  This was the hillside where they have long tube slides.  There are some video clips of Lukey and Kenzie on the s...

W hile we were at Carillon Park with Kenzie and Lukey, we spent some time at the Wright Brothers National Museum.  This museum is actually a part of the walk through Carillon Park.  It is on one side of the park up on hillside.   Typically, the flow of visitors walks up the main thoroughfare to the Transportation Center, then crosses a bridge to the hillside, then works their way through a few other Carillon Park historical items on their way through the Wright Brothers National Museum.  Once you get through the Wright Brothers National Museum, you then have close access to where you started.  We arrived right when the park opened so the "crowd" was just ahead of us.  In an effort to separate ourselves from the crowd, we chose to run through the park backwards by starting with the Wright Brothers National Museum.   There really was no "crowd" on this day because it was so unbearably hot and humid.  Everyone was indoors or at pools, I sus...