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Keys on an antique typewriter at the Mayborn Museum on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
The artist Tony Bryant was working on this mural. It is pretty amazing depicting a lot of Waco,Texas history. Have a great new week. View large and you can read what is on it.
There is a lot of Waco history in this mural. Come visit us. It is supposed to be 107 degrees today. Have a great weekend.
I will post my last one tomorrow and not wear you out on Barrel racing.
Be sure and check tomorrows out. It is amazing.
Waco Mill old grist mill out in the country and close to me, shot in black and white. Found in North Carolina.
I am not getting out to get many photo opps now so I took this.
Hilda got shots in her back last week and felt good for a couple of days. It is hurting again a lot. I will probably be off this week. Thank you for looking and commenting.
NS 26A, the former 220, runs up the hill from Waco and toward Bremen proper with a former ATSF C44-9W still wearing the Warbonnet paint scheme.
Lake Waco filled up Saturday night. It has been at a historic low all summer. There was flooding on the Bosque river that feeds Lake Waco. This is wonderful news. We have had about 7 inches of rain at our house . Have a great day.
NS 244 heads east for Atlanta through Waco with one of the Canadian Pacific heritage ACUs on the point. 12-11-23
Amtrak 19, the southbound Crescent, runs through Waco, GA with GE P42DC 160 on the point. In commemoration of the companies 50th anniversary last year, several engines were painted in heritage paint schemes, with this one getting the Phase 3 scheme that was fitted to their Dash-8 GE’s that were delivered in 1990. This became known as the Pepsi Can scheme due to its similarity to the product during the same time period of the 80’s & 90’s. 3-11-22
In 1866, Waco's leading citizens embarked on an ambitious project to build the first bridge to span the wide Brazos River. They formed the Waco Bridge Company to build the 475-foot (145 m) brick Waco Suspension Bridge, which was completed in 1870. The company commissioned a firm owned by John Augustus Roebling in Trenton, New Jersey, to supply the cables and steelwork for the bridge, and contracted with Mr. Thomas M. Griffith, a civil engineer based in New York, for the supervisory engineering work on the bridge. The economic effects of the Waco bridge were immediate and large. The cowboys and cattle-herds following the Chisholm Trail north, crossed the Brazos River at Waco. Some chose to pay the Suspension Bridge toll, while others floated their herds down the river. The population of Waco grew rapidly, as immigrants now had a safe crossing for their horse-drawn carriages and wagons. Since 1971, the bridge has been open only to pedestrian traffic and is in the National Register of Historic Places. (Wikipedia)
NS 24E makes their way to Atlanta past Pilgrim's Pride in Waco with the KCS "Salute Our Soldiers" unit on the point. 6-26-22
The Waco F series of civil biplanes were one of the most popular aircraft in their class during the 1930s and 1940s. They featured good performance and carrying capacity while being relatively inexpensive to operate. The first of the F series were introduced in 1930 with the Warner Scarab powered RNF. Over 600 F series aircraft were built between 1930 and 1942. Waco was one of the leading aircraft manufacturers leading up to World War II, but the company disappeared shortly after the end of the war. However, the F series remained popular with owners through the next several decades and many remain in service today.
This is an old Victorian home in Waco, Texas built about the turn of the last century but being restored now. Inside are a number of period pieces of furniture sitting in rooms with 10' high ceilings, wonderful old creaky stairs, etc. Many such houses are in various states of repair/dispair in the city of Waco.
Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served around 1885.
Baylor University (Source of Baylor Medical School and of Women's Basketball Championship fame) was founded in 1845 in Waco. The home shown above might have been a professors or administrators residence at one time.