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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Postcard Art from the Golden Age

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A collection of vintage postcards…pretty neat! http://lileks.com/misc/portfolios/index.html ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Cruising…Old School!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

http://lileks.com/misc/lurline/index.html Bonus:  Can you find the Argus C3??? ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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A History of Bathing Suits

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Ongoing… http://lileks.com/misc/bathing/1.html ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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The Last Days of Food and Drink…

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

An online copy of a food and drink visitor’s guide to LA, c. 1962.  The end of the Post War Golden Age.  It all changed in 1963… http://lileks.com/misc/key62/index.html An ongoing project… ~Curtis 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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A Public Service Announcement

Saturday, July 17, 2010

How to remove those unsightly Bumper Stickers that are so embarrassing now… ~Curtis, soon to be back in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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