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Day 268: Golden Spike Part 6

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Here the 119 backs up prior to the famous reenactment of the meeting of the rails! *** *** Now the 119 slowly… …slowly… …slowly meets with the Jupiter at the final spike! Bits and pieces to come! ~Curtis in Utah!  {!-{>

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Day 267: Golden Spike Part 5

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

After backing up to the switch, the 119 starts a low speed run-by of the Visitor’s Center.  The white steam is the whistle blowing. Here She comes! There She goes! Blowing off a bit if steam to clean the lines. And the whistle, long, loud and lonesome! ~Curtis in Utah! {!-{>

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Day 266: Golden Spike Part 4

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

“After the ceremony, Jupiter continued in service for the Central Pacific. In the 1870s, the railroad decided to end their practice of naming their engines, and thus, the Jupiter name was dropped and the engine was simply known as C.P. #60. The locomotive also received many new upgrades such as a new boiler, cowcatcher, domes, […]

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Day 265: Golden Spike Part 3

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The first view upon coming out of the Visitor Center! There are a lot of interpretive signs, and of course Wikipedia always has info! The Last Spike! Coast to Coast Jubilation!  We don’t get that nearly enough anymore… Original Rail. *** It all looks pretty close to the original event, but without so many people. […]

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Day 264: Golden Spike Part 2

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

A much more important place in our History than this small outpost in a field would indicate. ~Curtis in Utah!  {!-{>

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Day 263: Golden Spike Part 1

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Day dawned too early in Wells…actually, the Dawn was OK, it was just the COLD that left me in my bed!  But once I got out I had a mystery.  What the heck was this? !!!!! After pondering a bit I decided to head out into the wilds again.  20 miles down the Interstate and hang […]

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Day 221

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Dailylife Daughter #2 was home for her Grandfather’s 90th Birthday this week.  I took her and the Dailylife Wife to lunch at 5th Street Diner.  Good, as always! We took advantage of everyone being home to get a family portrait done.  Friend Bekka is very good at environmental portraiture.  I will post more when we get […]

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Day 220

Sunday, August 9, 2015

A few more of the Full Moon… More with the railroad tracks… Just one in the mud puddle. And while that one is okay, I have made a few variants using the filters in Elements. Bas relief. Cutout. Paint daubs. Water color. Glass. And one from my front sidewalk of the Moon through the powerlines […]

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Day 216

Friday, August 7, 2015

The Party was held and Dad and Sarah’s Church, Easthaven, up on Whitefish Stage Road.  This is a wide angle view of setting some of it up. A nameless friend of Dad’s, and Dad’s Speed Key.  That is the telegraph key he used when he was a telegrapher from the Northern Pacific Railroad, way back […]

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Day 212

Friday, July 31, 2015

While I was out for the moonrise, a train rumbled through Fife.  Five Engines! It seemed to be grain cars: I think they were headed the wrong way to be full, so some of the locomotives were probably deadheading until needed.  There is a new circle track grain elevator down by Moccasin.  I will have […]

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