It’s coincidence that I had planned on a few days in Sacramento (in the CalExpo RV Park) just as Howie and Norah were to arrive to begin a stint as hosts there. And happenstance that since we were both coming from the north headed to the same place, that I ran into them at a rest stop. Good to see them again.<\/p>\n
Sacramento is hot, around 100 degrees, but that’s not unusual at all. It would be nice if the RV parking was not on asphalt, but several decent trees give a bit of relief, if one is lucky enough to get a spot with a tree.<\/p>\n
Today I drove up to Roseville, just north. Roseville has a Union Pacific train yard used for assembling trains before the climb over the Sierras. Last year I visited North Platte, Nebraska, the biggest UP yard that receives these trains and splits them for points east. Of course, the opposite works, too.<\/p>\n
North Platte has nice tourist facilities, museums and towers and volunteers and such that help explain how trains work. Roseville doesn’t have such facilities. You’d think such a large company could spring a little sofa change for community outreach and common-man goodwill with a little visitor center or something, some place for a free hat for the kids and a rest room for the adults. “We’ve been greedy bastards since 1865” is the motto of all railroads in the US.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’ll go into Old Sacramento, the touristy historically place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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