The random pic thread.....

[Ms Grumpy]

One of our favorite things to do is to go to Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum with the kids during the summer. It is acres and acres of Historical Homes with streets that only allow Model T's, Model A's, a 1929 Packard Bus and Horse drawn carriages. You can be chauffered around the Village in the Model T's and Model A's, or stand at the bus stop and wait to take the Packard Bus. It also has Steam Engines Trains from the mid to late 1800's that run around the perimeter of Greenfield Village. Everything in the Village is time period correct. The oldest building is from the 1600's. The most popular building is Menlo Park, it is the workshop of Thomas Edison. You can watch them blow glass, or you can make a candlestick or you can make a candle. These are only a few of the things that we do.

The last few pictures show the steam engine cleaning called "scalling". They would pour a chemical into the engine and it would build up pressure and when they released the steam it would blow the lime scale off the inside of the engine.