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Yoohoo! Anybody here? Good Afternoon, Folks! A little late for lunch, which I already had, but I am still hungry! A burger would do nicely, Janie, and add abucket of coffee, please! We just had a terrific thunderstorm, followed by a torrential downpour. The siren of the fire brigade rushing out to pump water from flooded basements meant a sudden interruption of my mid day snooze, which I try to take every day now. It does me a lot of good, providing there is sufficient peace and quiet inside and outside the house. Today, it wasn´t. Today, Ulrich´s Train Movie Theater is featuring Molli. You have not heard of Molli yet? We all the famous name trains on the US of the 1930´s, the Broadway Limited, the California Zephyr, the Orange Blossom Special - you name them! We have heard of the famous "Blue Train" in South Africa, the Shinkansen in Japan and the красная звезда (Krasnaja Strela) connecting Moscow and Vladivosok, but Molli? Molli is the nickname for a narrow gauge line connecting Bad Doberan in northeastern Germany with the popular Baltic Sea resort towns of Heiligendamm and Kuehlungsborn. The line was opened 131 years ago and is Germany´s one and only 900mm gauge line. The name Molli was given to the line to commemorated the little dog of a lady passenger, which escaped from her lap while riding the train, jumping out of it and overtaking it, thus arriving ahead of his mistress. Molli´s trains are steam trains, with much of the motive power from the heydays of steam in the 1920´s. The trains are so popular these days, that the management decided a few years ago to have a new steam engine built, using the old plans but modern construction methods, just to be able to extend the services! Enjoy this video about a little train called Molli! <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JKw0JWbK3CQ" width="425" height="350"></iframe>   The following video shows Molli running in the streets of Bad Doberan. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/onre57AvuHU" width="425" height="350"></iframe> Molli is just a 2 hour´s drive from my place, but I have not had the chance to see it!
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