Oh 2 point Oh
When you see the new "O" logo... what does it make you think of? People drowning in a sea of blood? Zombies? Red Republicans stuck inside a big blue doughnut? Mmmmm......doughnuts....
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When Steam was king
Ken Elder down in Carthage, NC has quite a collection of steam and gasoline engines. Here are a few pix that I shot a couple of years ago at his show. The first two are called "oil engines" since they ran on kerosene. International Harvester "Titan" Hart Parr, forerunner of Oliver Now we get to the steam engines: Avery Undermount Geiser "Peerless" Z3, the biggest engine Geiser made. And they didn't make many of them. Reeves in front, Nichols & Shepard behind 40-140 Rumley The figures are horsepower ratings. The first number is drawbar horsepower. The second is belt horsepower. And the ratings were figured differently then gasoline horsepower. J.I. Case Sawyer-Massey, a Canadian engine The Westinghouse "upright". A vertical boiler engine. And just to show that there's nothing new, here's a Lansing 4 wheel drive steam engine. And last we have an A.D. Baker engine. The Baker engine was one of the most technologically advanced steam e...
Down in the Valley
If you can call 8400 feet of altitude "down". I guess it's all relative... Just got back to Carolina from a week in Colorado. Meant to get down to Santa Fe and meet up with Pauls, Labrat and Stingray but it didn't happen. I had a case of the "tired" the first of the week and we ended up sticking close to the ranch for the duration. Anyway, a few pix: Coming up Hard Scrabble canyon into the Valley you start to see the Sandre de Cristos in the distance. And then you drop down into the Valley: You come to Silver Cliff first and then Westcliffe. The towns run together and you really can't tell where one stops and the other starts unless you see the signs. Silver Cliff was the original mining town. Then the Denver & Rio Grande bought cheap land outside the town and established Westcliffe. Gradually all the business migrated to the rail head as the railroad had known they would. When the mines played out, Westcliffe became the dominate town and is now the ...