Across the road from where the building stood is an outdoor riding ring enclosed by a rough rail fence.
The work consists of two stone cairns, each enclosed within and only partly visible through a rough split-rail wood beehive dome 24 feet in diameter.
For visitors wishing to take day trips from the bling-bling Riviera cities to those that are more diamonds in the rough, the rail service may be the best way to go.
It's all about the price of gold — the roughest split-rail, the most unadorned three-strand electric, the might-as-well-be-made-of-diamond double rail crossbuck with six-by-six French Gothic posts of fresh-sawn oak.
"Passengers in the Rhondda, where I live, already feel as though they get the rough end of rail services.
According to COOP's rough estimations, the rail transportation costs can be around 5 to 10%% lower than the road transportation costs.
But because the Cooper S Convertible rides like it's on rails, on rough roads it vibrates harshly; the rearview mirror shakes so badly that you can barely see if there's a car behind you, and your hands will buzz with all the noise rattling from the road to your hands.
The rough design for a rail tunnel under the Gotthard pass was first sketched by Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner in 1947, but bureaucratic delays, cost concerns and other hurdles pushed back the start of construction until 1999.
They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and into a bright white room.
Some 10,000 inaptly named Sons of Liberty ferreted out dissenters, then silenced them with public floggings, ritualistic applications of hot tar and sharp-quilled feathers, or an excruciating ride astraddle a rough-hewn fence rail with heavy weights dangling from their ankles.
