Erie Zoo: All Aboard!

 The Erie Zoo has a track-based Railway Ride.  The experience takes guests around the northern rim of the zoo and then off into the park beyond to the east before turning around and coming back to the zoo.  It also has a really interesting little O-gauge model train mini-habitat in the very heart of the zoo.  It's not well advertised.  I just sort of stumbled upon it as I was fixing to leave.  It's also not terribly well maintained.  It was running, but it felt like a real afterthought to anything else.  Like whomever is responsible for its upkeep either had better things to do, or hadn't been around for weeks.  Still, a model train will always capture something in the imaginations of children no matter how old we are!  You can find it in the zone marked [Ee].

An image of the creek that divides the zoo.  Given the current climate mayhem, it isn't impossible to imagine how it could become a raging torrent over-flowing its banks and devastating a little zoo like this.  We live in provocative and interesting times.

The Erie Zoo train crossing an adjacent bridge.

The O-scale Model

A contrivance dedicated to William D. Kinney.

And either neglected in the most ridiculous simple ways, or ridiculous staged as in a Monty Python killer Rabbit has just slaughtered a cow, a horse, and a pig to the horror of the devestated farmer.  And now has chased a rooster into the bed of pick-up in a vain attempt to survive the psychotic bunny's killing spree.

Just say'n...  The imagination abhors a vacuum.