The World Famous Conch Tour Train in Key West

See the best on the train tour that’s been entertaining visitors to the Island City of Key West, Florida since 1958. The Conch Train is one of Florida’s most popular attractions, and for good reason. Our expert engineers and friendly staff have delighted over 15 million guests with legends such as Ernest Hemingway. Your tour of Key West will give you a fabulous view of all the wonderful Key West attractions. No Key West vacation is complete without The World Famous Conch Tour Train.

This Key West tour begins at the Front Street Depot and ends right behind it in Mallory Square. Once you have your ticket, climb on board and take your seat, as you are about to land on a terrific 75-minute journey through time. During the tour, the train will make one loop through Old Town Key West. There are two main stops: one is at Station Depot, allowing for a 10-minute break where you will find refreshments and shopping. The second stop is at Truval Village, located at the corner of Duval Street. From Truval Village, you are just minutes away from the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, many fine art galleries, shops and restaurants.

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FREE admission to the Sails to Rails Museum is included with ticket.

Please Note: This tour operates continuously every 30 minutes from 9: 00 AM to 4: 30 PM. It takes approximately 90 minutes to complete a full loop. Participants must be able to step into and out of the train. Children aged 12 and younger may attend the tour free of charge.

After spending his career as a chef and working as the Vice President of Food and Beverage at FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan, Michael McFarlen saw how much food would get thrown away from the Casino’s restaurant every day.

Unfortunately, throwing away perfectly good food is extremely common within the restaurant industry. Yet it was always something that bothered McFarlen about his work. Actions point, McFarlen decided to get involved with the South Central Food Bank of Michigan Inc. to help give back to those in need. He then became the president on the board and came up with a plan to open a restaurant in the community that would also help support a food bank on the property.

In April of 2016, the FireKeepers Casino Hotel and its owners, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, bought Fire Station No. 4, a historic firehouse near down town Battle Creek that had been closed for years and was set to be demolished. However, the group bought it before that happened and started to give the historic building a new life.

Renovations on the property lasted about a year. Then on April 19, 2017, the restaurant, which they named The Fire Hub, opened to the public for the first time. At the same time, the food bank, which they named the Kendall Street Food bank, opened its door in the back of the building.

“Anytime you open a new restaurant, you just have to figure a way through that first year,” George said. However, the first year of operation was beyond their expectations. Not only did the restaurant attract customers because of its popularity and sustainability, but the food bank helped more people in the first year than they ever imagined would need its services.

In total, about 375 to 400 households get help from the food bank every single month. “We’re able to cater to people who are working, but still need a little help during the month,” McFarlen told Second Wave media. To better fit the need of the majority of people using their services, the food bank was designed to look like a small market.

Most of the events we experience on a day-to-day basis are only remembered for a short period and then tend to disappear from our memory quite quickly. This makes sense. It’s not useful for our brains to remember everyday ordinary events, but what about traumatic (创伤的) or important events? And, if we do remember these events, do we remember them scene-by-scene as it really happened? Or do we adapt those moments and remember them inconsistently?

Psychologists theorize that our brains tend to imprint details of sudden traumatic experiences as if we’re taking a photograph of those moments. During the event, emotions run so high that whenever we recollect these memories, the emotional recollections flash across our eyes on an event-to-event basis. This is why these memories are called “flashbulb memories”; they have photographic accuracy. However, this idea of flashbulb memories being accurate did not translate into evidence for the same.

Inconsistent flashbulb memories are more likely to be repeated than corrected, as memories are not often checked for sure. On the other hand, inaccuracies regarding the event itself were more likely to be corrected, as there was backed-up data to refer to. Thus, these inaccurate memories were not repeated often.

Why does so much of our memory fall through the cracks? In 1975, researchers Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer noticed that language can affect how we remember an event. They asked participants who had seen a movie of a car crash to describe the crash. Using the word “smashed” instead of “hit” led participants to perceive a more severe accident. Likewise, using “collided” also resulted in reported differences in accident severity.

Additionally, false memories occur when people classify a certain mental experience as a real experience. A classic experiment, “Lost in the Mall” provides more evidence of false memories.

Many of the foods we regularly eat in our daily lives come from plants, which are essential for our survival on the “blue planet.” But what about the few people who live — although for a short span of time — in space? Is it possible for them to grow plants on board the spaceship and be self-sufficient for weeks on end? Yes, it is.

In fact, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ate the first space-grown salad (red romaine lettuce) on August 10, 2015. Even in a well-controlled environment like on the ISS, growing a plant in space is not an easy task. Traditionally, roots grow and spread downwards due to gravity. Still, in space, where the effect of gravity is negligible (忽略不计的), things change.

Roots grow in all directions in space. Other nutrients and water, which are essential for the growth of a plant, float all over the place! Can you imagine a plant floating in a spaceship, with its roots sticking out in every direction like the tentacles of a slimy sea creature surrounded by water and other nutrients?

Therefore, keeping this entire system going is very important. To achieve this, NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson set up a special container named “Veggie” a few years ago, specifically designed for “space gardening” on the ISS.

Veggie contains “plant pillows”, which are essentially bags of fertilizer and dirt released in a controlled manner to facilitate plant growth. In the bags, small wicks (棉芯) are installed that absorb water. Seeds are glued to the wicks and arranged in the correct position so that their roots grow unidirectionally (downward) and ‘push out’ of the bag. For the plants to grow properly (i. e. , upward), LED lights shine above the plants, provide light for the shoots and support photosynthesis (the process by which plants prepare their food) for proper plant growth.

Space agencies worldwide are striving to develop more advanced methods and procedures to enable astronauts to safely grow and eat vegetables from space-grown vegetables.