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1950 Buick Roadmaster Sedan
"Roadmaster" -- what a wonderful name for a car! It had emerged during 1936 and would last until it was foolishly removed for 1959. It was the perfect term for the top of the Buick line, a car bordering on Cadillac price territory, preferred transport for the up-and-coming professional -- the doctor, the lawyer, and anybody else who could not quite afford a Caddy.
Buick catered to this clientele with flashy styling-far and away the flashiest of the GM divisions-plus luxury and a host of novel design ideas: the famous pop-art grille, the gun-sight hood ornament, the hardtop convertible, the sweepspear, and the porthole. The latter three all arrived in 1949, when Buick sales correspondingly increased by 50 percent, and then doubled in 1950. In that long-lost halcyon era, this was the kind of car America wanted --and bought.
At a time when the annual model change was an act of faith, Buick chief designer Ned Nickles responded in the ordained manner by adding chrome, and the early-Fifties Buicks were not as purely beautiful as Ned's '49, the first all-new postwar design. The buck-tooth grille extended down over the bumper in 1950, but this was too strange even for Buickfolk (but much coveted today), and promptly receded in 1951.
Like most other cars of 1950, 1951, and 1952, these Roadmasters were built: hoods clang down like manhole covers, doors shut with a solid clunk on bank vault-like hinges, radios wrap you in that kind of "fat" sound you just don't get from transistors. Maybe it was clumsily executed, but it is this kind of sheer integrity that makes cars like the Roadmaster appeal to people today.
Heading for Butler Yard amidst suburban traffic, Union Pacific LBU52, the "Marsh Job", glides north on the Milwaukee Sub and over Interstate 94 right at sunset at the westernmost edges of Milwaukee and West Allis, Wisconsin, with ex-SP GP40-2 1454 for power. The characteristic Chicago & North Western bridge in the background spans the old Milwaukee Road line from Elm Grove to Muskego via West Allis- today part of the Hank Aaron Trail. The bridge was bypassed by a small, new one for the trail, and a larger one for the interstate, when the I-94/894 interchange was rebuilt.
Columbia University, NYC
(EXIF data: NIKON NIKON D700 0.001sec f2.8 ISO500 24mm , auto-added by hpexif)
San Juan County Utah
There are notes on the photo.
“These cliff dwellings were built and occupied by the Anasazi Indians approximately 700 years ago. This ruin reflects the full range of living activities: habitation, ceremonial, farming, hunting, storage, and tool making. It contains four kivas, underground chambers where ceremonial activities took place. Three of the kivas are of the round Mesa Verde type most common in this area. The fourth kiva is a square type more commonly found in ruins to the south in Arizona. This indicates that the Anasazi here at Butler Wash were dominated by the Mesa Verde culture to the east and influenced less by the Kayenta culture to the south. Likewise, the ceramics found during stabilization indicate a pure Mesa Verde occupation during the 1200’s AD.
The kivas at this site are located toward the front of the largest cave, while habitation and storage rooms are visible behind them and in various caves and niches around the canyon.
The people who lived here farmed and hunted. Corn, beans, and squash were grown in the deep alluvial soils of the broad canyon to the south. A cycle of deep arroyo cutting may have made agriculture impossible by lowering the ground water level and making irrigation unfeasible. The current deep wash is a result of an erosion cycle which started in the 1890’s.
Whatever the reason – drought, overuse of natural resources, or waring neighbors – this site was abandoned before 1300 AD.” (US Bureau of Land Management)
I was driving beside Butler Wash, I looked out the window, and the word "layers" popped into my consciousness. So I came back to capture it. Butler Wash is an ephemeral stream on the eastern side of Comb Ridge--it is between the sagebrush and cottonwoods in this shot.
A nice view here at Butler right off the highway, made for a nice platform to shoot both the Bessemer and the Buffalo & Pittsburgh.
Its a warm Summer night as an NYS&W West Shore job has just ran around their train at Butler Yard with an SD33-ECO leader. Upon receiving their Form D, they will run east on the main back towards Little Ferry. A piece of track equipment on one of the yard tracks serves as a reminder that Butler is one of the main MOW bases on the Susquehanna.
Butlers Wharf at the side of the River Thames next to Tower Bridge in London.
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One of the remaining few Butler yard jobs crawls west onto the 124th Street Spur for their only remaining customer there - Wallboard who receives centerbeam loads of drywall in the industrial park area.
It's not only pretty rare to catch this in decent daylight, but they almost always shove a load on the head end and pull an empty out on the reverse move, so usually the shot is completely crap of the power move. In the past handful of times I've seen this job move the past couple years, these are the only salvageable shots.
UP 1345, ex-DRGW 3122
It's a beautiful spring afternoon at the east end of Chicago and Northwestern's Butler yard, as a Soo Line SD40-2 waits on it's outbound crew to take it south to Proviso yard outside of Chicago.
In the distance, a C&NW GP7 works away the hours at the east end of the lengthy yard.
SOO 789,C&NW 6503
Butler, WI.
May 1989
San Juan County Utah
There is a note on the photo.
“These cliff dwellings were built and occupied by the Anasazi Indians approximately 700 years ago. This ruin reflects the full range of living activities: habitation, ceremonial, farming, hunting, storage, and tool making. It contains four kivas, underground chambers where ceremonial activities took place. Three of the kivas are of the round Mesa Verde type most common in this area. The fourth kiva is a square type more commonly found in ruins to the south in Arizona. This indicates that the Anasazi here at Butler Wash were dominated by the Mesa Verde culture to the east and influenced less by the Kayenta culture to the south. Likewise, the ceramics found during stabilization indicate a pure Mesa Verde occupation during the 1200’s AD.
The kivas at this site are located toward the front of the largest cave, while habitation and storage rooms are visible behind them and in various caves and niches around the canyon.
The people who lived here farmed and hunted. Corn, beans, and squash were grown in the deep alluvial soils of the broad canyon to the south. A cycle of deep arroyo cutting may have made agriculture impossible by lowering the ground water level and making irrigation unfeasible. The current deep wash is a result of an erosion cycle which started in the 1890’s.
Whatever the reason – drought, overuse of natural resources, or waring neighbors – this site was abandoned before 1300 AD.” (US Bureau of Land Management)
San Juan County Utah
There are notes on the photo.
“These cliff dwellings were built and occupied by the Anasazi Indians approximately 700 years ago. This ruin reflects the full range of living activities: habitation, ceremonial, farming, hunting, storage, and tool making. It contains four kivas, underground chambers where ceremonial activities took place. Three of the kivas are of the round Mesa Verde type most common in this area. The fourth kiva is a square type more commonly found in ruins to the south in Arizona. This indicates that the Anasazi here at Butler Wash were dominated by the Mesa Verde culture to the east and influenced less by the Kayenta culture to the south. Likewise, the ceramics found during stabilization indicate a pure Mesa Verde occupation during the 1200’s AD.
The kivas at this site are located toward the front of the largest cave, while habitation and storage rooms are visible behind them and in various caves and niches around the canyon.
The people who lived here farmed and hunted. Corn, beans, and squash were grown in the deep alluvial soils of the broad canyon to the south. A cycle of deep arroyo cutting may have made agriculture impossible by lowering the ground water level and making irrigation unfeasible. The current deep wash is a result of an erosion cycle which started in the 1890’s.
Whatever the reason – drought, overuse of natural resources, or waring neighbors – this site was abandoned before 1300 AD.” (US Bureau of Land Management)
The Big Boy is taking it easy out of Butler, WI, beginning another leg of its Midwestern Tour.
Rolling through Wauwatosa, I found myself amongst good company documenting the world's largest steam locomotive as it crossed over Underwood Creek and Watertown Plank Rd. in route to Chicagoland and a weekend stay at West Chicago.
Wauwatosa, WI
2019.07.26