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A Danforthian gazes up at one of EMD's finest. EMD E9A 101 arrives in the small town of Dansforth, Illinois with the 2008 CN Santa Train.
A former CN GP38-2 is at Clearing Yard on July 14, 1996 going somewhere in a funky CN-like scheme. Anyone know where this (and the PQ002 hooked up to it) wound up?
I seem to remember it was somewhere in South America.
Visual evidence that Toronto is a midwestern city.
Kodak Vision 50D and an F mount converted Olympus 24mm f2.8 lens.
I couldn't resist this old sign. Everyone in these parts knows Maid-Rite. There are still plenty around, even new versions in shopping malls, and the food is usually good. But for true 1939 ambiance, yummy home made pie, great malts and the best beef loose meat sandwich in the world, you have to visit the tiny Canteen Lunch in the Alley in Ottumwa, Iowa, and sit yourself down on a stool at the little horseshoe counter. It's a time machine! Just saying . . .
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Revisiting my Thanksgiving morning story... I was awoken early by a mouse in the ceiling, which is apparently not so uncommon of an occurence when one lives out in the country in western Illinois. After giving up on getting back to sleep, I grabbed the camera and headed outside to witness this beautiful sunrise.
The challenge out here in the flat farmlands is trying to find something to include in the foreground of my shots. Unlike out there in California, there are no mountains or bays... and the bridges are few and far between. These tall reeds in the foreground are growing next to our front porch here on the horse ranch. Pretend like they are a mountain range... :D
The weather when I took this picture in November was a lot warmer. It will be -2 F (or -19 C) tomorrow night with a windchill around -20 F (-28.9 C).
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Built in 1912-1913, this Arts and Crafts-style hotel was designed by Fred Loring Seeley for Edwin Wiley Grove, and is known as the Grove Park Inn. Edwin Wiley Grove, whom had made his fortune selling Grove's Chill Tonic, used to help relieve symptoms brought on by malaria that was then endemic to the southern and midwestern United States, manufactured by his company, the Paris Medicine Company, which originated in Paris, Tennessee, before moving its operations to the larger city of St. Louis, Missouri. Grove had a summer house in Asheville, built circa 1897, prior to the construction of the inn, with Fred Loring Seeley, his son-in-law and business partner, having spent extensive time in the area with Grove and his wife, Evelyn Grove Seeley. The land upon which the hotel and nearby Kimberly Avenue neighborhood was later built was purchased by Grove in 1910, acquiring land all the way to the top of Sunset Mountain, as well as several tuberculosis sanatariums that Grove closed and demolished in order to change the reputation of Asheville’s health-focused resorts. Part of the land, atop Sunset Mountain, later became home to Seeley’s Castle, a large, Tudor Revival-style castle-like mansion built similarly of rough stone, and also designed by Seeley, but featuring more medieval appearance. The hotel went through several designs by various professional architects before Grove settled upon a design by Fred Loring Seeley, which featured a simple facade clad in rough granite stones, with a shingled cotswold cottage-style roof with dormers and curved edges, casement windows, and an all-concrete interior structure. The interior of the building was outfitted with Arts and Crafts furnishings and finishes designed and built by Roycrofters, a firm based in East Aurora, New York, and was opened in a ceremony with William Jennings Bryan as the keynote speaker. The hotel featured a large dining room in the northwest wing, with a tile floor and simple plaster walls, which sat next to the hotel’s original service wing, which housed the kitchen, laundry, and other service areas, a large Great Hall, serving as a lobby and lounge, in the center wing, with stone columns and massive stone fireplaces, a plaster ceiling, and a tile floor, and guest rooms on the upper floors, with a large atrium, known as the Palm Court, directly above the Great Hall, and four stories in height, crowned with a large skylight. The hotel was marketed as a health-conscious retreat for wealthy visitors. The hotel has hosted former United States Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama in its over century-long history. The hotel was utilized during World War II to house diplomats from the Axis Powers, and later by the US Navy as a rest and rehabilitation center for returning sailors, and in 1944-45, as a US Army Redistribution Station, where soldiers rested before being assigned duties in other parts of the army. Following World War II, contingency plans in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States involved moving the US Supreme Court to the Hotel, as Asheville sat far inland in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a far more defensible location than many major cities, and had very little strategic value compared to most cities of its size. In 1955, the hotel was purchased by Sammons Enterprises, owned by Charles Sammons, and underwent a modernization, seeing the stone columns in the lobby stripped and clad in aqua-colored vinyl wallpaper, the addition of a pool to the southeast terrace, a large two-story concrete motel structure that sat southeast of the hotel along the hillside, and later, the addition of a wing to the southwest, which appears to have only lasted about a decade and a half before being demolished. In 1976, the Sammons family purchased the adjacent Asheville Country Club and Golf Course, before embarking on a major renovation and expansion of the hotel between 1982 and 1988, with the addition of the massive Vanderbilt Wing and Sammons Wing on the south facade of the building, obscuring the original service wing, northwest wing, and heavily altering the hotel’s appearance with their white EIFS-clad facades, postmodern rooflines based on the original hotel, bands of horizontal and vertical black-tinted glass curtain walls, and minimal usage of rough stone. The Sammons Wing contains conference spaces, a parking garage, and service areas for the hotel, with guest rooms along the southern and western edges of the building, with the Vanderbilt Wing containing hotel rooms along the southern and eastern edges of the building, wrapping around a central parking garage, and also containing a large multi-story atrium and restaurants. The original wing of the hotel was restored as part of this project, with the columns in the lobby being clad in oak surrounds, the stonework and roof being repaired, the palm court being brought back to its original appearance, and furnishings from the period of significance for the hotel being re-introduced to the interior. Around the turn of the millennium, the grounds in front of the historic inn and between the two modern wings was re-landscaped with waterfalls, terraces, and gardens, with a new Spa building being constructed below the hotel, partially underground, between the two wings, with the two previous swimming pools on the hotel grounds being closed at this time. In 2012, the hotel was purchased by KSL Resorts for $120 million, whom subsequently sold it to Omni Hotels in 2013, with the hotel being rebranded as The Omni Grove Park Inn. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, though this would not have been possible following the massive alterations the building underwent in the 1980s, as the renovations have significantly and irreversibly altered the historic hotel, and have removed several character-defining features, though this is understandable in that it was done to keep the hotel economically viable in the modern age of larger resorts and economies of scale, which made the hotel in its previous form no longer economically viable.
Nearly one half of the massive abandoned Packard Motor Company Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Like the endless fields of Great Plains grain... Like the expansive rolling topography of the Appalachian states... this is the terrain of the Midwest.
Packard Motor Car Company Plant. Detroit, Michigan. January 3, 2007.
Ray-Carroll Co-Op (RCC) SW1200 #1221 is reportedly the former C&NW 1221, nee 321. It appears to be permanently parked at the RCC elevator at Hardin, MO, one of three such sites operated by Ray-Carroll in central Missouri. Located nearby is a newer facility with rail loading loop.
Note 1221's homemade air conditioning with vent hose in the open cab window, and DIY stack caps hung from the horn.
This trackage is former Wabash, connected to the NS Kansas City District on the west side of town, but disconnected on the east. It is part of the former Santa Fe/Wabash joint operation between Camden and Carrollton, established in 1907. For the mile or so through Hardin, both BNSF and NS now operate on BNSF's Marceline subdivision, a couple blocks to the north,
South Shore 803 operates on her own for the first time in years at the IRM. She is a beautiful locomotive. I would love to see this thing on the South Shore running excursions to South Bend from Chicago. Dream on...
midwestern orogeny at its finest. the porkies were so beautiful this weekend, and i had no idea what i was in for
that's all I really dreamed of being :)
Disclaimer--almost any other part of the country would have sufficed
2017-10-20
Olympus XA4 28mm,
Fujicolor Superia X-tra 400, expired 2011, shot at ISO 200,
Pakon F135 scan,
2017.B4.roll 12
Midwestern butterflyweed, Rick Evans Grandview Blackland Prairie WMA, Hempstead County, Arkansas, June 2013
It's not everyday a Midwestern boy like me gets to see something like this! It's hard to shoot pictures of dolphins; when you see them it's almost too late.
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KURASHIKI
Kurashiki (倉敷市, Kurashiki-shi) is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, with a population of 480,000.
Kurashiki is located in the south-central part of Okayama Prefecture, and the Takahashi River flows through the midwestern part of the city from north to south and empties into the Seto Inland Sea. Most of the plains are occupied by reclaimed land and alluvial plains, and are relatively flat except for the Kojima area. Kojima, Kameshimayama, Tamashima, and Tsurajima are many places in the city that have the kanji 'island' in their names; these areas were originally islands and were connected by land reclamation to form the current city limits. Okayama City, which is the prefectural capital, is adjacent to the east, and Kurashiki forms part of the Greater Okayama metropolitan area.