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Old faithful erupts on June 28, 2019 in Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY. Thhis photo was taken from the bench near Beehive Geyser on Geyser Hill. Beehive’s cone, from which it gets its name, is in the right corner of the picture. To the left of Old Faithful, the Old Faithful Lodge is visible. The current Lodge is a descendent of the Shaw & Powell Camping Company that operated in the park from 1898 to 1916. Over the years a series of detached buildingd and cabins were built. Then starting in 1926 architect Gilbert Stanley consolidated them one complex. The lodge is li part of the Old Faithful Historic Distric listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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The windows shuttered, and the doors locked at BD Cabin in Binghamton, NY. It was around two years earlier that the area was cut into the dispatchers board in Hornell making BD a lonely place to visit. The operators there were usually friendly and would get you in out of the rain if need be. The little cubical covered all of the immediate area of Binghamton and the S&U up to Chenango Forks. On this day Conrail BUOI and OIBU meet with help from 100 miles to the west. The consolidation of towers and cabins into the dispatchers offices hundreds, even thousand of miles away, on not just Conrail, but all US railways would spread over the next two decades creating long distance love affairs over the radio instead of a friendly "highball" trackside.
Fellow Flickr member Mike Stellpflug had posted this unusual photo of Charlie Decker, getting orders ready at BD. He was the regular daytime operator in the late years of the cabin.
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