Very Short Line RR Pictures from somewhere in the Mid West.
#181
Posted 22 October 2022 - 02:36 PM
#182
Posted 24 October 2022 - 10:31 AM
https://i.imgur.com/up1RmlL.jpg
Randy
#183
Posted 24 October 2022 - 06:52 PM
#184
Posted 25 October 2022 - 07:16 AM
timmuir, on 24 October 2022 - 06:52 PM, said:
Hey, I stumbled upon this the other day and thought it might be of interest to you as a possible subject for a model.
Grain Elevator.jpg
There is something odd about that photo - it feels like a model or maybe photoshopped. Uncanny valley maybe.
#185
Posted 25 October 2022 - 10:59 AM
Do you know where that picture was taken?
Looks like something I maybe could do. You want a new one and I want an old one. Hmm.
Randy
#186
Posted 26 October 2022 - 07:41 AM
https://i.imgur.com/dD58CqLh.jpg
How quaint.
Yeah I need one of these.
Randy
#187
Posted 26 October 2022 - 01:09 PM
steved, on 26 October 2022 - 07:41 AM, said:
https://i.imgur.com/dD58CqLh.jpg
How quaint.
Yeah I need one of these.
Randy
LOL.. Yep, I used Larry as a quick an' dirty gauge to judge the height, too. He never would have guessed his image would have been used in such a fashion. But, I am thinking that maybe Larry is more like 5'-6" tall. The siding looks like 3" to the weather clapboards, so that would make him about that tall...
I don't have any info on the photo. And I regret not noting where I got it, something I usually do. I will go through my history and see if I can find it again. It may have come from The Historical Society of Missouri, since I was there not long ago and the image resides in the folder where the other material from THSOM is. I'll let you know.
-- Edit: I found it. It's located here, and the photo is from St. Charles, Missouri, 1887. ( I had fade-corrected the image in PSP.)
#188
Posted 26 October 2022 - 06:22 PM
#189
Posted 27 October 2022 - 05:42 AM
steved, on 21 October 2022 - 01:44 PM, said:
Found this little nugget from the bowels of Wichita Falls on r/TIL.
https://i.imgur.com/ZoYKp52.jpg
Had to have one.
https://en.wikipedia...lest_skyscraper
As falls Wichita so falls Wichita Falls, Pat Metheny.
Randy
I thought it looked familiar. Here is a link to a short video made by Tom Scott, who is British, about the building.
My link
#190
Posted 27 October 2022 - 06:49 AM
keystoneaholic, on 27 October 2022 - 05:42 AM, said:
My link
Ahh, thank you, Rob, that was really enlightening and interesting. It makes me appreciate this model all the more.