Carillon Park Transportation Center
T he Transportation Center was one of the sites at Carillon Park that Lukey was looking forward to seeing. In fact, Lukey was looking forward to seeing this building so much that, in the photo below, he is already inside the building as the rest of us are still approaching the building. As the name of the building suggests, this building is home to most of Carillon Park's vehicles such as train cars, streetcars, trolleys, buses, one or two cars, horse-drawn carriages and even a horse-drawn fire truck. I think Lukey was most interested in the trains inside the Transportation Center. Honestly, I am also partial to all the railroad-related vehicles. The "John Quincy Adams" locomotive, below, is the oldest steam locomotive still in existence today. It was built in 1835 for the B&O Railroad. This is an unusual steam locomotive in that its boiler is in a vertical orientation rather than the boiler being a long horizontal tube running from the front of the loc...