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If I had a guess - and I'm going to - I'd say somewhere in new mexico? Looks pretty desolate but green. Are those crops or just grass and stuff? Looks like some kind of dam in the distance, so I'm wondering about cultivation.

Not New Mexico (or an adjoining state).
Not spacey, but definitely sciencey.

I've been there. Idaho. Part of the Idaho National Laboratory...those two gizmos in the parking lot are prototype nuclear aircraft engines. There's a decommissioned reactor in the building. Now just an interpretive historical site.

Winner!

Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant and U.S. National Historic Landmark.

Where (what?) is this?

Oh, brother, another "where art thou?" post. But I'm probably not on the right track and I don't want to derail the thread, so I'll hand the cart back to you.

Quote:

There will be many ob-stack-les in yo path.

Quote:

You will see a cow on top of a cotton house.

It does put you in mind of that movie, of course. Which is a bonus!

Hint:

What's that you're ridin' there Tommy?

And the answer isn't roll-top desk. ;)

Hand cart for section hands

It is a hand cart. But where/on what?

Are they just outside of Rock Ridge?

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"Dang, that was lucky...Durn near lost a four hundred dollar handcart."

I don't know. They could be anywhere...we could track them the whole way.

Well, they are on a track. At a junction switch. In the middle of a flat plain.

Is it where the Eastern lot met the Western lot when they built the trans-continental railroad?

Well, this was a vague 'where is this' round but I found the pictures so compelling I thought it might be interesting. It's the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. This is primarily Kansas.

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The photographic series made by Alexander Gardner in Kansas between mid September and late October 1867 is the earliest and most diverse systematic photo-documentation of the American West. The Kansas series, originally titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division,” is part of a later series titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railroad.” The entire series systematically photo-documented the surveyed railroad line which began at the Mississippi River in St. Louis and ended at the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco, California. The Kansas series, consisting of several hundred views between Kansas City and Fort Wallace, in Western Kansas, documented the initial impact of the new railroad settlements on the native prairies. This was particularly true along the Smoky Hill River route where construction was in progress as shown in Gardner’s pictures. This series makes an especially valuable source for a rephotographic series to detail visually the transformation of the Kansas landscape by the early European settlements along the railroad.

- via “Rephotographing Alexander Gardner’s 1867 Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division” by John Charlton

courtesy of one of the best sites EVER...Retronaut!

http://www.retronaut.com/2012/10/hel...cific-railway/