“Agnes Macdonald, wife of the first Canadian Prime Minister, travelled with her husband out west after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. She was really excited to see the country, but to her dismay she couldn’t see much from inside the train because the steam from the engine blocked the view.

Her solution: they tied a chair to the cow-catcher on the front of the train and then tied her to the chair. She rode to British Columbia tied to the front of the train like a ship’s figurehead.”

-hotsy-totsy