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Cosmiccragsman

Trad climber

AKA Dwain, from Apple Valley, Ca. and Vegas!

Dec 4, 2012 - 10:56am PT

Theodore Roosevelt
Train

Missing photo ID#276886

Missing photo ID#276887

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Dec 4, 2012 - 11:30am PT

LOVE that series, Ghost. . . especially the second shot.

Thanks Kath. With everything gray and rainy and cold here now, it was nice to pull up that reminder of last summer and post it.

This is a really wonderful thread.

eKat

Trad climber

BackInTheDitch BackInTheDirt BackInTheDay

Dec 4, 2012 - 11:48am PT

You're welcome, Ghost. . . great thread, indeed!

:-)

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Dec 4, 2012 - 04:12pm PT

Thanks Stahl bro.

FDR rode his train to Warm Springs, GA just over "the mountain" from here.


	Credit: NYT


	FDR funeral train arriving in Atlanta 4-13-45 after it left Warm Springs. Credit: Atlantatimemachine

train wrecks?


	Credit: Tobia

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

Dec 4, 2012 - 04:14pm PT


	Credit: pud

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Dec 4, 2012 - 04:34pm PT

More on train wrecks...


	Credit: Tobia


	Webster County, GA Credit: Tobia

3 pictures of the local Circus Train Wreck 1915


	Credit: Tobia


	Credit: Tobia


	Credit: Tobia

local wrong side of RR tracks


	1936. Railroad Street is still there today; but time has graciously removed the fast moving freight trains and row houses from the sides of the track. The man in the middle is playing a harp. Credit: Tobia

Cosmiccragsman

Trad climber

AKA Dwain, from Apple Valley, Ca. and Vegas!

Dec 4, 2012 - 04:50pm PT

WHOA, Tobia!
For a second there I had to take a double take.

I thought at first you had pics of the same train wreck I have.
but the train numbers are different.

Missing photo ID#276885

Missing photo ID#276884

Here are some of the other pics I found in the miners shack
Theodore Roosevelt San Francisco Parade 1903
Before the earth quake. From some of the research I've done,
I believe some of the photos are of Market Street.

Missing photo ID#276963

Missing photo ID#276965

Missing photo ID#276966

Missing photo ID#276967

Missing photo ID#276968

Missing photo ID#276970

Missing photo ID#276971

Missing photo ID#276973

Missing photo ID#276976

This is one of the pages of the photo album I found. All the above photos
are on the same kind of album paper just cropped after I scanned them.

Missing photo ID#276984

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Dec 4, 2012 - 04:52pm PT

Cosmic, I thought the same thing and went to look at mine and then decided to post. Train gage is different as well. Most of the old pics I post are ones I had access to as a teacher. I would use them in teaching with powerpoint. I wish I could give proper credit to the photographers or collections; but I have lost track over time.
Other local transportation snafu:


	Royal Canadian AF biplane crash 1920 Credit: Tarpley

other local transportation


	Steamboat Pactolus 1884. Steamboats came up the Chattahoochee River to stop here from Appalacholia FL. This was as far north navigable on the river. Credit: Tobia


	The Fannie Fearn 1887 across the river lies Sweet Home Alabama. Credit: Tobia


	Credit: Tobia

The average number of trips in a steamboat's short life was a remarkably low 20 trips as they were lost in the treacherous navigation of the river and the dangers of boiler explosions. Locals made and lost fortune's insuring the main cargo of cotton and the ships themselves. I used to have a figure for the cost of building one; but can't locate it now.

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Dec 4, 2012 - 05:32pm PT

Here's a cool shot of a local train used for troop movement at Fort Benning.


	Credit: Tobia

Local train schedule from late 1800's. The Midland train station was at the border of my property.


	you can now find as many payphones as you could telegraphs in 1895. Credit: Tobia


	The Midland Masonic Hall & Mercantile Store and the Midland Train Depot, 1945. That is a coffin factory in between the depot and lodge. The Masonic Lodge is still used today, the other buildings are long gone as well as the RR track. The road is paved. Credit: Tobia


	My last walk on the tracks before they pulled them up in 1992. My dog Ziggy and another dog of a friend are with me. RR station would have been directly to the left. Credit: Tobia

other local railroad pictures


	Man of War, Southern Railway passenger train, that I rode as a kid on several adventures. Credit: Tobia


	Chattahoochee Valley Railroad 1961 Credit: Tom Sink

My favorite local transportation pictures (posted before)


	Mule on Broadway, soldiers are on weekend leave from Ft. Benning. Credit: Tobia


	Credit: Tobia

and the cops that chased them:


	Credit: Tobia

both of the above are from 1909

Banquo

climber

Amerricka

Dec 4, 2012 - 05:55pm PT


	Credit: Banquo

A few years ago one of my students went on an end of summer trip to the mountains with three friends. Not experienced mountaineers but they did climb a 3rd class peak. On the way down one of them fell on some old icy snow in a gulley and unfortunately did not survive. A few months later my student wanted to go back and asked me to go in support. So I went with two of them. It had snowed since the accident so I fitted them out with axes and crampons and going in we went over the basics of safe snow and ice travel. When we got within sight of the bottom of the gulley where the kid fell, I stopped and they went on alone. I took this image as they returned to me.

Tobia

Social climber

Denial

Dec 4, 2012 - 06:47pm PT

Banquo, nice photo; but sad story. I pass a place pretty often where a friend died years ago and it gives me the hibbie jibbies when I see it. I kind of look around, above and below.