Still at the Henry Ford Museum

 If Trish and I lived near here we would surely have a membership to the Henry Ford so we could come over and over again.  There is so much stuff of interest presented so well that you get “a museum overload” in a little while and need to take a break and then pick it up again.

As we think back, there are three more things we want to be sure to remember:

First is the C & O  1601 locomotive.  This is the heaviest multiple production and most powerful steam locomotive ever built. The double-drive locomotive has two sets of six articulated drive wheels to enable it to negotiate curves and produced 7,500 horsepower.  It pulled coat trains that were 1.25 miles long.

The second thing is the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion house.  Designed by Fuller and first built in 1933, the house was was to be factory built and then assembled on the spot. The house idea was fascinating.  It looked like an Airstream house to be in a permanent place.  Only the demonstration models were ever actually built.

Finally, there is Trish standing beside Rosa Parks’ seat on the Cleveland Avenue bus on which she refused to give up this seat and move to the back of the bus.  To visit the actual bus itself and have identified the very seat she occupied was an almost spiritual and moving experience.  It shows us how much one person of true courage can do if we are determined to do what we know is right.

There were so many more things there to be remembered, but, we must move on to our next adventure.