Handcar Regatta

Railroad Revival Tour:

“This April, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show will embark on a tour unlike any in recent memory. Traveling exclusively in vintage railcars, the three bands will journey across the American Southwest over the course of a week. The aptly titled Railroad Revival Tour will feature the three bands playing concerts at six unique outdoor locations along the route, beginning April 21st in Oakland, California.”

Hurrah!

A new racing team has joined for the 2009 Handcar Regatta:

Shefield’s Fantastic Pump Trolley

Said trolley is a scale replica of a handcar that would have been in use 100 years ago.

See electro-luminescent graphical renderings in the Engineers’ Arcade

The gentlefolk “down under” have, I noticed of late, been rummaging about our humble Regatta site in surprising numbers. Not being one to miss a fond glance or two headed my way, I decided a bit of poking about was due in the Aether of the great country of Australia.

None to my surprise, the “Aussies” are sweethearts to their many working steam locomotives. A few of such beauties are listed thusly:

• Puffing Billy
• Pichi Pichi Railway home including:
  

  Afghan Express
  Pichi Richi Explorer
  the winsome Coffee Pot
  Wizards Explorer

If you are residing across the mighty globe from The Great Handcar Regatta, consider embarking upon a journey into the past upon the civilized rails of yesteryear!

Any news and Huzzahs! from the goodly chaps and lasses “down under” are gladly welcomed to dispatch an electro-telegraphic communiqué at your convenience!

The dazzling Railcar Videodeon has been added to the Galerie de Muse.

Kindly visit myself, Erasmus P. Kitty, on the splendid YouTube if you will.