Union Pacific 7263
It was your comments that made me realize I had a theme of transportation going here, and that really is the story of this town situated on the Oregon Trail. The distances involved in the great American West are gigantic, and the arteries of transportation directly determined the patterns of settlement. Here on this morning, literally within a few hundred meters of each other, I had photographed a horse and wagon, a river boat and a train - all the main characters of very recent history in this area.
On a different note, Blanca was rather terrified of the locomotive that made the ground shake as it went by!
Union Pacific 7263
It was your comments that made me realize I had a theme of transportation going here, and that really is the story of this town situated on the Oregon Trail. The distances involved in the great American West are gigantic, and the arteries of transportation directly determined the patterns of settlement. Here on this morning, literally within a few hundred meters of each other, I had photographed a horse and wagon, a river boat and a train - all the main characters of very recent history in this area.
On a different note, Blanca was rather terrified of the locomotive that made the ground shake as it went by!