Can you guess?  Ok, I’ll tell you.  They are trains; engines to be exact.  They are the two engines that met at the Golden Spike ceremony of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in Promontory Utah in 1869.  These are historically accurate replicas.  Unfortunately, the originals were scrapped out for $1000 a piece long ago.  We are at the Golden Spike National Historical Site.  The engines are wondrous to look at.  They are meticulously maintained and drive every day; out for display then back in for the night.  One each, coal fired and wood fired puffed their way along the tracks with bells and steam whistles accompanying the clatter of the rails and whoh-whoh sound from the stacks.  I love it!

A possible volunteer site for us?  Maybe.  They use volunteers for maintenance in the winter (pretty cold here though) and in the summer as actual fire tenders on the trains.  Sounds very cool to me.