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2026-06-02 15:33 UTC
… Was his name localized to Tomas for Spanish speaking regions… or are you doing a Mandella Effect bit?
Um, no, I’ve not been to that museum, does sound awesome, but my (nearly 100% certainly also autistic) grandpa had an entire, fully functional landscape / diorama / train track kit, that he spent like two decades slowly building… it was the size of roughly two queen mattresses, end to end.
I also did go to some train museums / exhibits up in the PNW, the cascades, they’ve kept an old school steam engine working on I think an old rail line for logging, up around snoqualmie, it’ll choo-choo you around a nice little relaxing loop.
Like, I am entirely unironically the stereotype of ‘loved trains waaaay too much as a kid = autism’, and it literally runs in family, hahah!
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-06-02 16:58
I’m pretending he had nonunion latino equivalent like Flanders just roll with it Next time I’m up near snoqualmie (got some family in Puyallup no don’t try to say it) I might take that train. It sounds fun. We’ve got the Napa Wine Train here but that’s more of a drinking + trains day.