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Timmc
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BC
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I love this thread
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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That is the 50 year old train........all down hill from there.
Hang on it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
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Ghost
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A long way from where I started
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Tobia
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Denial
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cool pics all day; even the sad ones (including the suffering of living within walking distance of a walmart)
stahlbro: where's the trainwreck?
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
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Banquo, Moe made me laugh out loud.
But then what guy doesn't laugh out loud at the stooges? :-)
Eric
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Timmc, what the heck took you to Libya? I saw a bunch of pictures that one of our aeromagnetic crew took there about 10 years ago. Definitely looked like one of the best Roman ruins to see.
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Ydpl8s: I worked 4 months in central Libya in 2009 working on mountain ops for seismic. Some mighty big jebels!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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I have been riding the 50 year old train down hill for several years now ;-)
Tobia - Train wreck is on the Carizzo Gorge Railway
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Those are great Cosmic. Someone I work with was actually born and raised in Trona. Here is another good one.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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LOVE that series, Ghost. . . especially the second shot.
Thanks Kath. With everything gray and rainy and cold here now, it was nice to pull up that reminder of last summer and post it.
This is a really wonderful thread.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Thanks Stahl bro.
FDR rode his train to Warm Springs, GA just over "the mountain" from here.
train wrecks?
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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More on train wrecks...
3 pictures of the local Circus Train Wreck 1915
local wrong side of RR tracks
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Cosmic, I thought the same thing and went to look at mine and then decided to post. Train gage is different as well. Most of the old pics I post are ones I had access to as a teacher. I would use them in teaching with powerpoint. I wish I could give proper credit to the photographers or collections; but I have lost track over time.
Other local transportation snafu:
other local transportation
The average number of trips in a steamboat's short life was a remarkably low 20 trips as they were lost in the treacherous navigation of the river and the dangers of boiler explosions. Locals made and lost fortune's insuring the main cargo of cotton and the ships themselves. I used to have a figure for the cost of building one; but can't locate it now.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Here's a cool shot of a local train used for troop movement at Fort Benning.
Local train schedule from late 1800's. The Midland train station was at the border of my property.
other local railroad pictures
My favorite local transportation pictures (posted before)
and the cops that chased them:
both of the above are from 1909
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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A few years ago one of my students went on an end of summer trip to the mountains with three friends. Not experienced mountaineers but they did climb a 3rd class peak. On the way down one of them fell on some old icy snow in a gulley and unfortunately did not survive. A few months later my student wanted to go back and asked me to go in support. So I went with two of them. It had snowed since the accident so I fitted them out with axes and crampons and going in we went over the basics of safe snow and ice travel. When we got within sight of the bottom of the gulley where the kid fell, I stopped and they went on alone. I took this image as they returned to me.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Banquo, nice photo; but sad story. I pass a place pretty often where a friend died years ago and it gives me the hibbie jibbies when I see it. I kind of look around, above and below.
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