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Caliente, California seems to be much more photographed, but the Nevada version is fine with me. Here we view coal loads heading west out of Caliente, Nevada and into the Meadow Valley Wash.
Petroglyph Canyon in Valley of Fire. The black area shows the petroglyphs that are several hundred years old.
The Nevada Northern Railway's 1909 vintage Alco number 93 steams beside the coal tipple in the East Ely Yard. In the foreground framing the locomotive is the NN's home built scale test car resting on the scale track. The 35,000 lb car was built in 1913 and features 44 inch spoked wheels that were originally on the pilot truck of a steam locomotive.
This is the only time I attended one of these winter steam spectacular photo shoots at the Nevada Northern Railway and actually the only time period that I've ever been there! It was truly an unforgettable experience and with all the amazing recent news coming out about future happenings I will have many more reasons to return soon.
To learn more about this railroad and its historical significance check out the detailed caption with one of my other photos from this weekend: flic.kr/p/2m4eqAY
Ely, Nevada
Saturday February 14, 2009
Eldorado Resort Casino Reno is a hotel and casino in Reno, Nevada, owned and operated by Eldorado Resorts.
Don Carano opened the Eldorado in 1973 with 282 guest rooms, two restaurants and 10,000 square feet of gaming space with 200 slots and 12 table games. The Eldorado of 1973 included a lobby, registration area, coffee shop, cocktail lounge, specialty dinner house and gaming area. Also incorporated into the property were a convention room accommodating up to 600 people, a swimming pool and executive suites.
In 1979, the success of the Eldorado Hotel Casino prompted what would be the first of many expansions and improvements. Guestrooms were brought to a total of 411 with a further expansion completed in September 1985 adding 20,000 square feet of gaming area and four new restaurants. By 1989 the Eldorado had grown to 817 hotel rooms and boasted its own on-site bakery, pasta and gelato shop and butcher shop. In 1992, the Eldorado added a 10 story parking garage for added convenience to guests.
The completion of another dramatic transformation for the Eldorado happened in 1995. Coinciding with the construction of the Silver Legacy Resort Casino, a 50/50 joint venture between the Eldorado and MGM Mirage, the Eldorado added a crossover to the new downtown property connected by the first ever micro-brewery in a casino, The Brew Brothers. The exclusive Spa Tower was created, adding 10 floors of luxury accommodations; a 10,175 square foot convention center was opened as well as a 580 seat Broadway-style showroom. A coffee roasting company was added to the list of on-site services and the casino now totaled 76,500 square feet with more than 1,500 slot machines, 55 table games, a keno lounge, full service state-of-the-art race and sportsbook and poker room.
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Time-lapse video of airglow, Milky Way, meteors satellites and airplanes over historic sites, under the dark, starry skies of rural Nevada, arguably the darkest state in the Lower 48 states.
This time-lapse sequence will soon no longer be possible to capture like this, as these sites decay over time. Vandalism and even necessary restoration and protection measures interfere with seeing and capturing sites in an authentic state.
I'm uploading landscape astrophotography videos today, on the anniversary of Carl Sagan's passing. His astronomy series Cosmos was an inspiration to me.
Night sky time-lapse videos like this are becoming more difficult to capture as light pollution grows in the West, and worldwide.
Aquí os presento una nueva foto, ahora del Picón de Jerez, situado en Sierra Nevada, Granada, a una altitud de 3088 metros sobre el nivel del mar.
Another picture, of Sierra Nevada, Granada (Spain), The Picon de Jérez montain, 3088 meters over the sea level.
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Some interesting rock formations near the top of Nevada Fall.... There wasn't much water flowing in September. I walked a mile or so from the campsite at Little Yosemite Valley to shoot Nevada Fall at sunset, so it was interesting to walk back and try to find the tent in the dark... Though this is a popular spot in the daytime, I was the only one at the fall at sunset.
During my time in Nevada I hiked an area called Buffington Pockets, based on the recommendation of a niece. She said this location reminded her of bacon. Buffington Pockets, nestled in the Muddy Mountains, is full of unusual multicolored rock formations. When I came upon this hillside, I wholly understood what she meant.
The covered bridge was built in 1862 by a certain David I Wood, who used to charge teamsters to travel across the bridge. The bridge was built using wood from Mr. Woods's lumber mill in Sierra County, California. There is a plaque on the northern side of the bridge that commemorates this.
This bridge was built to replace an 1850 bridge that washed away in a storm. At 251 feet (229 feet after the end walls were removed) it is thought to be the longest single-span covered bridge in the United States. As with all such bridges, the cover serves mainly to keep the rain off the load-bearing structure, which would otherwise soon rot from the moisture. Some said covers also made the bridge look like a barn so horses wouldn't be frightened to cross, but this was not universally accepted by teamsters of the day.
This road in the late 1800s was part of the Virginia Turnpike, a link between Marysville and the Comstock Lode silver mines in Virginia City, Nevada. Wagon teams, horsemen, buggies and livestock were charged a toll to cross the bridge. The Turnpike ran 14 miles from Anthony House (submerged under Lake Wildwood) to North San Juan.
The main visitor center to the South Yuba River State Park lies just to the south of the bridge.
Everybody, listen to me
And return me my ship
I'm your Captain
Though I'm feeling mighty sick
I've been lost now, days uncounted
And it's months since I've seen home
Can you hear me
Or am I all alone
If you return me to my home
I will kiss you, Mother Earth
Take me back now
To the port of my birth
Am I in my cabin dreaming
Or are you really scheming
To take my ship away from me?
You'd better think about it
I just can't live without it
Don't take my ship from me
I can feel the hand of a stranger
And it's tightening around my throat
Help me
Take this stranger from my boat
I'm your Captain
Though I'm feeling mighty sick
Listen to me
And return me my ship
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