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Day 205

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The radar towers of Francis Peak in the sunshine. Radar Towers?  Where? There!  And the flower shots are from the saddle to the right. Oh yeah, click to enlarge, BACK to return! ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 204: Restoration to be

Monday, July 19, 2010

A Saturday morning project in Ogden. They are trying to restore this old 4-6-0 Denver and Rio Grande locomotive. Where the steam pushes on the piston that makes the wheels go round. … One of the leading wheels. …… One of the big driving wheels. Where the smoke comes out! This part is usually inside […]

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Day 203: Outside

Monday, July 19, 2010

More at the Union Station, outside. A little 55 ton (?) Utah Central switcher and caboose. An end view. The engineer’s view. A wrecker train with crane, scrap car and … ….rotary… …plow??? The whole consist! U.S. Army tank car and bay window caboose! ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 202

Monday, July 19, 2010

More at the Union Station, inside. If you enlarge this you can see it is from Barrow Steel…hmmm… A caboose inside the museum, fully climbable! Outside the inside caboose. There is also a fairly nice model railroad running. ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 201

Monday, July 19, 2010

More from outside of the Union Station.  A 40 & 8 box car from France…just click on the second photo and read the whole thing.  BACK to return! I have seen these in other states. http://fortyandeight.org/ http://www.nsrm-friends.org/nsrm56.html http://wasteam.railfan.net/merci.html http://www.skylighters.org/encyclopedia/fortyandeight.html ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 200

Monday, July 19, 2010

On Saturday I braved the near 100F temperature and headed up to Ogden to the Union Pacific Station and the Utah Railroad Museums.  They have a an old 0-6-0 steam engine with tender and two cabooses set up outside as a playground…kids can crawl all over these things!  They must have not heard about litigation […]

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Day 199: The view on the way back down…

Saturday, July 17, 2010

It was pretty spectacular on the way back down from Francis Peak, too.  I have not done anything to these photos except cropping and resizing to fit on the page. A peek at the Lake: (1/30, f4, 105mm, ISO 400, -1 stop) The same photo as wallpaper: I  haven’t had a nice moon shot in […]

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Day 198

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The sunset was pretty neat from on top of Francis Peak.  All of these photos were stitched together in MS ICE from three to eight photos. Click (a couple of times!) to enlarge to full size, then BACK to return here! Looking West over the Great Salt Lake, Farmington and Layton: Looking East over Morgan, […]

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Day 197: The Flowers of Francis Peak part 2

Saturday, July 17, 2010

(1/30, f8, 135mm, ISO 100, -1 stop) Three variations on the same photograph: (1/50, f8, 50mm, ISO 100, -1/2 stop) (the same) (the same) (1/45, f8, 28mm, ISO 100, -1/2 stop) (1/90, f8, 122mm, ISO 100, -2 stop) ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 196: The Flowers of Francis Peak part 1

Thursday, July 15, 2010

I recently got to travel to the top of Francis Peak, Utah, elevation 9547 (I was a little shy of the peak, so I will call it 9400 in the saddle where I was).  Lots of flowers were still out! http://www.utahlepsociety.org/francispeak.html http://www.micksmtn.20m.com/francis.html (All of these photos are wallpaper sized!) (1/500, f8, 40mm, ISO 400, -1 […]

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