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Train No. 8, the Log Train, has just passed the Yard Limit sign as it makes its way eastbound to Incline where the empty log cars will be left. It will then continue east, turn on the wye at Moss Canyon, and return to pick up the loaded log cars and take them to the lumber mill at Merced Falls.
August 1939 on the Yosemite Valley Railroad
By Jack Burgess/photos by Dan Munson
I was 13 years old when I received my first train set for Christmas. I soon had my circle of track mounted on a sheet of plywood and even added a mountain. But I couldn’t afford turnouts on my meager allowance so that project was short-lived.
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If you want to truly embrace the terror and beauty of winter, a Russian-inflected modern folktale should do the trick. In Katherine Arden’s
The Bear and the Nightingale we meet Vasilisa Petrovna, who has no wish to marry. She grew up on tales of Frost Demons, rusalka, all that is wild and magical in the dark and frozen forests including the great Bear, who is gathering his power in the darkness beyond the village. Enter the stepmother, who agrees with the village priests that following the ancient ways will lead to Hell; she wants to see her new daughters packed off to convents, where devotion to God will cure them, or wed, where lives as wives will keep them too busy to bother with uncanny spirits and old lore. When a blizzard freezes the village, everyone Vasya loves faces certain starvation. The young woman will have to defy her stepmother and the priest to ally with every “demonic” force who’s willing to help her before the Bear destroys them all.
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