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Imagine Daniel being able to go back in time and visit these factories in their heyday and look over the shoulder of skilled workers putting these magnificent engines together.

Sometimes, in the deep dark recesses of my mind, I think that I can go back to times past and see the thing that dreams are now made of!

When perchance I do, it is a journey of wonder and delight!!

Daydreaming, is what I have heard it called, but I think it is far more than that term allows for, in its common definition!?!?
"Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music: Music is THE BEST...   
Wisdom is the domain of the Wis (which is extinct). Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence..."
F. Zappa ... by way of Mary, the girl from the bus.