California State Railroad Museum, 2017 -- August 8, 2017

Today we drove to Sacramento.  Traffic was light going up. The weather in Sacramento was pleasant, not too hot.  The California State Railroad Museum had an exhibit of autos from the California Automobile Museum, which used to be the Towe Ford Museum.  I wanted to visit that place, but it is closed on Tuesdays.  Here we see a high speed rail mockup with a 1914 Stanley Steamer. 

In the lobby there was an exhibit of images showing Southern Pacific employee sports teams, including baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball and bowling. 

We walked under the freeway to the K Street Mall to get lunch.  The K Street Mall was closed.  They are redeveloping it.  We were hungry, so it was fortunate that Macy's had a cafe on the ground floor.  We had a nice lunch there. 

We walked through Old Sacramento and back to the car.  We stopped at the Nut Tree to have sundaes at Fenton's.  Traffic going home was pretty light, except around Emeryville. 

Stanley Rocket - July 21, 2007

Another early racing car, referred to as a "freak" in contemporary publications, was the Stanley Rocket, a steam-powered car which set the land speed record of 127.7 miles per hour at Daytona Beach in 1906. An improved version of the car returned to Daytona in 1907 and reached 150 mph before it hit a dip in the sand and wrecked itself. If it were not for the wire wheels, it would not look like a 1906 car.