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Day 292, something completely different!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

The steam engine SP4449 returning to Oregon  from a Train Festival, approaching the Rockies.  This is near Browning and Glacier National Park. “SP 4449 was built in 1941 as a GS-4 “Northern” type locomotive. A 4-8-4 wheel arrangement, she is 110′ long, 10′ wide and 16′ tall. The locomotive and tender weighs 433 tons, and […]

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Day 280 – End of an Era?

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Grain elevators litter the landscape in Eastern /\/\onTana!, but too many are slowly falling apart, abandoned when the railroad pulled up tracks, or replaced by a row of modern multi-story round concrete tubes on end.  While not attractive or nostalgic like this tin sided (or the much scarcer wooden) elevator, the new tubes often have […]

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Day 261: Meanwhile, Back at the River…

Thursday, September 17, 2009

A bit drier than a month ago. (Stitched together out of two photos with MS ICE) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 235

Monday, August 24, 2009

Tunnel Number 4, from the South… (1/160, f8, 135mm, ISO 100) And from the North… (1/50, f8, 135mm, ISO 100) Interstate 15 between Helena and Great Falls… ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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something really different…

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Time Lapsed photos of the building of Disneyland…the original tiny one, in Anaheim…with commentary. Excellent stuff! From Holycoast.com! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 183, Arriving in Skagway!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

In actual order we went to Ketchikan on the 10th, Juneau on the 11th, and Skagway on the 12th.  But they sure don’t show up that way here! Here is a Marine Highway Ferry, early in the morning.  click to enlarge, aww, you know the drill by now… An artful gaze stern-wards in the early […]

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