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On March 31, 1999, NR Tower hauled me around for a chase of Ohio Central\'s MJT (Mingo Junction Turn). Guidance much appreciated as it was a nice spring day and we did quite well. The train started at the shop in Morgan Run and went to Mingo Junction on the former PRR Panhandle route with a sizable grain train. Here it is rolling along next to Cross Creek between the communities of Reeds Mill and Fernwood, Ohio. This was the last shot of our MJT chase before the track turns away from the sun toward Mingo Jct.
My brother Doug, my flickr contact Grant and I visited northeast Ohio on a five-day trip. While in Canal Fulton, we had dinner at Margarita Mexican Restaurant on June 14, 2015. There were heavy rainstorms during the evening and after our dinner, passing storms had left a beautiful sky behind.
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Man meets nature. The coolest thing about East Black River Falls is the fact that you have to walk through the ruins of an old hydro electric station to get to it!
I probably posted to many similar shots of this place but I couldn't decide which to keep and which to delete!
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About this Photo: Winter scene taken in the Mayfield Wetland in Mayfield Village, Ohio in the late afternoon February sun. About 30 inches of snow was covering the wetland with drifts in places as deep as 40-50 inches. This is an HDR created in Photomatix using three photos set at -1, 0 and +1.
The Scripps Center is a high-rise office building located at 312 Walnut Street at the corner of 3rd Street in the Central Business District of Cincinnati, Ohio. At the height of 468.01 feet (142.65 m), with 36 stories, it is the fourth tallest building in the city, and the tallest added between the building of the Carew Tower in 1931 and the opening of the Great American Tower at Queen City Square – the tallest building in Cincinnati – in 2011. It was completed in 1990, and includes 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of office space. The building was designed by Houston architects Hoover & Furr; Glaser & Associates was architect of record. Space Design International was also involved with the building's design.
The headquarters of the E. W. Scripps Company is located in the Scripps Center.
In connection with the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game played in Cincinnati, the upper exterior of the Scripps Center was decorated with a gigantic hat and mustache, giving it the appearance of a 19th century Cincinnati Redlegs player. Despite public support for keeping the decorations permanently, the mustache and hat were removed after the game. Television cameras were also mounted on the building's roof to provide aerial views of the game.
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「Ohio」並非Alec Soth和Brad Zellar首次合作，早在2011年日本震災後不久，兩人就曾嘗試手工出版500本齊藤朝江作品，並將一切收益均捐出做為義賣賑災之用。Alec Soth和Brad Zellar兩人在今年5月之間，走遍了俄亥俄州的大城小鎮（俄亥俄也是題名的由來），踏足流連速食店、舞會、教堂、高爾夫球場和墓地，一路上拍攝當地社區居民之間的生活交流。返回紐約的短短一週內，Alec Soth和Brad Zellar，就以新聞紙印製了2000份48頁的「Ohio」，以紀念這趟偉大的壯遊之旅。
Flowers and birds today,
This is a close up of an Ohio Spiderwort. They are just as photogenic before they bloom as the blooms themselves!
Chicago. 2016
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nrhp # 70000552- The W.P. Snyder Jr. is the last intact steam-powered sternwheel towboat in the United States, permanently moored at the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio. Built in 1918, it represents the end of the steamboat era on America’s inland rivers.
🚢 Historical Background
• Built in 1918 by Rees & Sons Company in Pittsburgh, PA, originally named W.H. Clingerman for Carnegie Steel Company.
• Renamed several times: J.L. Perry (1938), A-1 (1945), and finally W.P. Snyder Jr. in September 1945 when acquired by Crucible Steel.
• Worked primarily on the Monongahela River, towing coal until being retired in 1953.
• Donated to the Ohio Historical Society in 1955 and brought to Marietta, OH, under Captain Fred Way Jr..
⚙️ Technical Features
• Length: 175 ft (53 m)
• Beam: 28.4 ft (original), later widened to 32.3 ft
• Depth: 5.2 ft
• Power: Two tandem compound steam engines, producing 750 hp
• Propulsion: Sternwheel (classic paddlewheel design)
Interestingly, even though it had a steel hull, engineers added anti-hogging struts and cables—a feature normally used on wooden hulls—to prevent sagging. This reflected uncertainty about how steel hulls would behave under sternwheel stresses.
Museum & Preservation
• The Snyder Jr. is a National Historic Landmark (designated in 1989) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1970).
• It was the last steamboat to lock through Lock 1 on the Muskingum River before the lock was removed.
• In 2009, the vessel’s hull was in danger of sinking, prompting restoration work at South Point, Ohio.
• Today, visitors to the Ohio River Museum can tour the Snyder Jr., gaining insight into the industrial and transportation history of America’s rivers.
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Ohio is a midwestern state in the United States. Part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads. At the time of European contact and in the years which followed, Native Americans in today's Ohio included the Iroquois, Miamis, and Wyandots. Beginning in the 1700s, the area was settled by people from New England, the Middle States, Appalachia, and the upper south.
Prior to 1984, the United States Census Bureau considered Ohio part of the North Central Region. That region was renamed "Midwest" and split into two divisions. Ohio is now in the East North Central States division.
The name "Ohio" derives from the Seneca word ohi:yo’, meaning "beautiful river" or "large creek", which was originally the name of both the Ohio River and Allegheny River.
Geography
Ohio's geographic location has proved to be an asset for economic growth and expansion. Because Ohio links the Northeast to the Midwest, much cargo and business traffic passes through its borders on its well-developed highways. Ohio has the nation's 10th largest highway network, and is within a one-day drive of 50% of North America's population and 70% of North America's manufacturing capacity.[9] To the North, Lake Erie gives Ohio 312 miles (502 km) of coastline,[10] which allows for numerous seaports. Ohio's southern border is defined by the Ohio River (with the border being at the 1793 low-water mark on the north side of the river), and much of the northern border is defined by Lake Erie. Ohio's neighbors are Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Ontario to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast.
Ohio's borders were defined by metes and bounds in the Enabling Act of 1802 as follows:
“ Bounded on the east by the Pennsylvania line, on the south by the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Great Miami River, on the west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid. ”
Note that Ohio is bounded by the Ohio River, but the river itself belongs mostly to Kentucky and West Virginia. The border with Michigan, has also changed, as a result of the Toledo War, to angle slightly northeast to the north shore of the mouth of the Maumee River.
Much of Ohio features glaciated plains, with an exceptionally flat area in the northwest being known as the Great Black Swamp. This glaciated region in the northwest and central state is bordered to the east and southeast first by a belt known as the glaciated Allegheny Plateau, and then by another belt known as the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. Most of Ohio is of low relief, but the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau features rugged hills and forests.
Demographics
As of 2006, Ohio has an estimated population of 11,478,006,[27] which is an increase of 7,321 from the prior year and an increase of 124,861 since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 263,004 people (that is 938,169 births minus 675,165 deaths) and a decrease from net migration of -145,718. Immigration from outside the United States contributed of a growth of 92,101 people, most coming from Asia, yet net migration within the country resulted in a decrease of 237,819 people. Ohio has witnessed an increase in the Laotian American and Thai American populations, as well as Asian Indians and Latin Americans.
The center of population of Ohio is also located in Morrow County, in the county seat of Mount Gilead
The rugged southeastern quadrant of Ohio, stretching in an outward bow-like arc along the Ohio River from the West Virginia Panhandle to the outskirts of Cincinnati, forms a distinct socio-economic unit. Known somewhat erroneously as Ohio's "Appalachian Counties" (they are actually in the Allegheny Plateau), this area's coal mining legacy, dependence on small pockets of old manufacturing establishments, and even distinctive regional dialect set this section off from the rest of the state and, unfortunately, create a limited opportunity to participate in the generally high economic standards of Ohio. In 1965 the United States Congress passed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, at attempt to "address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region." This act defines 29 Ohio counties as part of Appalachia. While 1/3 of Ohio's land mass is part of the federally defined Appalachian region, only 12.8% of Ohioans live there (1.476 million people.)
Significant rivers within the state include the Cuyahoga River, Great Miami River, Maumee River, Muskingum River, and Scioto River. The rivers in the northern part of the state drain into the northern Atlantic Ocean via Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence River, and the rivers in the southern part of the state drain into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio and then the Mississippi. The worst weather disaster in Ohio history occurred along the Great Miami River in 1913. Known as the Great Dayton Flood, the entire Miami River watershed flooded, including the downtown business district of Dayton. As a result, the Miami Conservancy District was created as the first major flood plain engineering project in Ohio and the United States.
Grand Lake St. Marys in the west central part of the state was constructed as a supply of water for canals in the canal-building era of 1820–1850. For many years this body of water, over 20 square miles (52 km²), was the largest artificial lake in the world. It should be noted that Ohio's canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their industrial emergence to location on canals, and as late as 1910 interior canals carried much of the bulk freight of the state.
Climate
The climate of Ohio is a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa) throughout most of the state except in the extreme southern counties of Ohio's Bluegrass region section which are located on the northern periphery of the humid subtropical climate and Upland South region of the United States. Summers are hot and humid throughout the State, while winters are generally cool to cold. Precipitation is moderate year-round. Severe weather is not uncommon in the State as it is a battleground between cold Arctic air and warm Gulf air for much of the year, although there are fewer tornadoes in Ohio than in states farther to the west. Severe lake effect snowstorms are also not uncommon on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, which also provides a moderating effect on the climate there.
Although predominantly not in a subtropical climate, some warmer-climate flora and fauna does reach well into Ohio. Evidencing this climatic transition from a subtropical to continental climate, several plants such as the Southern magnolia, Albizia julibrissin(mimosa), Crape Myrtle, and even the occasional Needle Palm are hardy landscape materials regularly used as street, yard, and garden plantings in the Bluegrass region of Ohio; but, these same plants will simply not thrive in much of the rest of the State. This interesting change may be observed while traveling through Ohio on Interstate 75 from Cincinnati to Toledo; the observant traveler of this diverse state may even catch a glimpse of Cincinnati's common wall lizard, one of the few examples of permanent "subtropical" fauna in Ohio.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is OH; its old-style abbreviation is O.
Natives of Ohio are known as Ohioans.
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Galina Diner, Columbus Street
Galena, originally called Zoar, was established in 1918. A military airfield was built adjacent to the city during World War II.
Galena sits at the confluence of the Little and Big Walnut Creeks, the headwaters of Hoover Reservoir, just north of Columbus, Ohio.
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This summer, we have had practically no 'normal' summer days. They have been either too hot thanks to our endless heatwave, or too smoky thanks to all the wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta. The weather forecast for three days ago, on 3 August 2017, looked good; sunshine all day, with rain forecast on several of the coming days. I decided to finally do a drive all the way down south to near Lethbridge, so that I could again visit the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale. Last year, I did this drive for the very first time on my own and I wanted to make sure I didn't lose my courage to do it again. During the 511 kms that I drove, I had to ask for help with directions twice - both times in the same small hamlet! It was a hot day, with a temperature of 31C when I was at the Centre.
Though the forecast was for sun all day, there was no mention of the smoke haze that completely blocked out the mountains and pretty much the foothills, too. Very quickly, I was almost tempted to turn around and come home, but I reckoned I would still be able to photograph the fairly close birds at the Centre, which worked out fine.
Amazingly, I managed to make myself get up early that morning, and set off just before 8:30 am. My intention was to drive straight to Coaldale without stopping anywhere en route. Not an easy thing for me to do, as I much prefer driving slowly along the back roads rather than the less interesting highways. However, I knew it would take me a few hours to get there and I wanted to have as much time as possible down there. On the way home, I drove one dusty, gravel road, but saw nothing but a couple of Horned Larks perched on fence posts. A couple of old barns (that I had seen before) and a few scenic shots, were more or less all I took.
Twelve hours later, I finally arrived home, at 8:30 pm, totally tired out, and my car was just about out of gas. For the first time in the year that I have had this vehicle, the gas level warning light came on. Also, it surprises me that the oil change light has never come on, as I have done 8,500 km in just under 12 months. I was given free oil changes for the life of the car, but was told that I can't get them done until the light comes on, on the dashboard. Think I'd better contact the dealership and ask about this. Almost a year sounds far too long to not have an oil change. Later: after doing a bit of Googling last night, it seems that it is quite normal to have done this many km, or more, before the maintenance light comes on for getting a first oil change. My previous vehicle was 17 years old and things have obviously changed with newer cars!
My Ohio--During the past two million years, mile deep glaciers have helped to shape the topography of Ohio, many times. Ohio was covered by these ice age glaciers in the Northern and Western two thirds of the state. This helped to smooth the land and left valleys filled with mass quantities of rock and gravel.
In the Southern part of Ohio which the glacier didn't cover, is a land of steep hill, deep ridges and beautiful, shaded valleys. On one 200 acre farm in Southern Ohio, only 12 acres can actually be farmed!
Glacier National Park, located on Kellys Island in Lake Erie, has rocks showing the deep grooves and scars left by the passing of these huge moving mountains of ice.
-Ohio History Central
-Peaceful, Leonard, ed. A Geography of Ohio, 1996.