Author Topic: Photobomb. Post a photo/any photo and I will Hi5 you! (Read 22925 times)

Eupher · « **Reply #25 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:45:14 AM »

This is Maya, an Australian shepherd, 5 years old, that Mrs E and I adopted yesterday.

Three dogs and three parrots now. FML.

franksolich · « **Reply #26 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:45:47 AM »

franksolich · « **Reply #27 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:46:16 AM »

franksolich · « **Reply #28 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:47:16 AM »

The San Francisco-Los Angeles Coast Daylight.

EagleKeeper · « **Reply #29 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:47:50 AM »

This is me, way back in the day.

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #30 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:47:54 AM »

Quote from: Eupher on December 22, 2012, 10:39:52 AM

This pic is NOT photoshopped. Some whacko, crazed, shitbird in the Ruhr area of Germany did this to himself:

He;s from Germany? He's probably still finding dates (sad to say). All that magnetic attraction means he may set off unexploded WWII munitions.

Eupher · « **Reply #31 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:49:00 AM »

Tim, the professor of trombone at the U of Missouri; Brian, the conductor of the wind ensemble at the U of Missouri, and me in the foreground just before an orchestra gig back in the spring.

franksolich · « **Reply #32 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:49:20 AM »

The San Francisco-Los Angeles San Joaquin Daylight.

The Southern Pacific railway had two major lines running San Francisco-Los Angeles, one alongside the coast and another in the interior of the state.

Eupher · « **Reply #33 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:49:46 AM »

Quote from: Mr Mannn on December 22, 2012, 10:47:54 AM

He;s from Germany? He's probably still finding dates (sad to say). All that magnetic attraction means he may set off unexploded WWII munitions.

One can only hope.

franksolich · « **Reply #34 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:50:54 AM »

The Los Angeles Limited, an early all-sleeping-car train between Omaha and Los Angeles.

It was between Chicago and Omaha on some other line, because the Union Pacific didn't reach that far east.

franksolich · « **Reply #35 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:51:45 AM »

The Los Angeles Limited on its first run, in 1906.

EagleKeeper · « **Reply #36 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:52:34 AM »

Coach, I'm going to scan something and send to you.

franksolich · « **Reply #37 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:54:13 AM »

Air-brushed publicity photograph of the first-class all-sleeping-car Overland Limited racing across the cornfields of Iowa.

The Overland Limited ran from Chicago to Omaha on the Chicago & Northwestern railway, from Omaha to Ogden, Utah on the Union Pacific, and Ogden to San Francisco on the Southern Pacific.

CG6468 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:54:39 AM »

franksolich · « **Reply #39 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:55:31 AM »

Not sure which train this was, but it's on the Southern Pacific, Ogden, Utah to San Francisco.

franksolich · « **Reply #40 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:56:47 AM »

No idea, other than it's Union Pacific or Chicago & Northwestern.

CG6468 · « **Reply #41 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:57:43 AM »

franksolich · « **Reply #42 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:58:26 AM »

The Pennsylvania Railroad's 2-10-2.

One wonders how it made it around the curves of the Alleghenies, though.

It wasn't the largest steam locomotive, however.

franksolich · « **Reply #43 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:59:23 AM »

The Union Pacific's 4-8-8-4, the largest steam locomotive ever in use.

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #44 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:59:31 AM »

Mom! The kitty is making those faces again!

franksolich · « **Reply #45 on:** December 22, 2012, 11:05:04 AM »

A 2-8-8-8-4, probably from the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, or the Baltimore & Ohio, or the Norfolk & Western, or the Western Maryland. I don't believe it came into frequent use, and was actually cut in half to make two smaller, more practical locomotives.

For some reason, the four abovementioned roads tried elephantine locomotives, and some of them actually worked, but I've always been mystified.

The Union Pacific's 4-8-8-4 had the straightaway and generally level terrain of Nebraska and eastern Wyoming (where they were used) on which to run. It's been a very long time since I've seen the mountains of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, but I remember them as looking somewhat too daunting for large locomotives, but somehow these four eastern roads found some big models usable.

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #46 on:** December 22, 2012, 11:07:59 AM »

franksolich · « **Reply #47 on:** December 22, 2012, 11:08:20 AM »

Mr Mannn, sir, you're not giving me any high-fives.

I'd like to keep the proportion 10-1, high-fives to bitch-slaps, and I'm sure to get some of the latter during the top DUmmie awards, so I need "insurance."

franksolich · « **Reply #48 on:** December 22, 2012, 11:10:08 AM »

I'm not seeing any other pictures of trains in this photobucket account, so will switch.

Years before my time, the family vehicle in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

I disremember what make and model it is.

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #49 on:** December 22, 2012, 11:10:55 AM »

Yes, I'm dishing out the Hi5s. and I can't hit you again for another hour.
So keep your shirt on. I pride myself on being generous with karma.

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Author Topic: Photobomb. Post a photo/any photo and I will Hi5 you! (Read 22925 times)