Trains & Hot Rods

After church this morning I joined John on the Pickleball courts.  We sure do enjoy this game! We actually bought a couple of paddles so we can play wherever we travel.

This Fairplex is huge. There is a drag strip with big stadiums on either side, and a race course set out on the asphalt and another oval race track with a stadium. There must be a dozen buildings of all sizes.  A few of them were built by the WPA.  The building where the concerts were held also hold 4 Pickleball courts and another mini-stage area with seating for 100 and an area with tables and chairs for another 100 people. and there is still more room for other stuff.  Around the outside of the grounds there is a park, golf course, a Train Yard Museum and the National Hot Rod Assoc. Museum.

We found our way into the NHRA and enjoyed looking at dragsters from the 1940’s to the 1990’s,  All different sizes, shapes, designs and colors.  Then we looked at six different train engines from small steam to monster steam to UP diesel electric engines.  They also displayed a Pullman car, two cabooses and a horse car.

Its been pretty hot here, in the 80’s but it looks like that might change in the next few days to highs only in the 70’s.  Darn!