Where Is This? - Page 70

infinite monkey · 10-29-2012, 08:12 AM

Where (what?) is this?

BigV · 10-29-2012, 08:27 AM

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.

Gravdigr · 10-29-2012, 06:40 PM

Quote:

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

Quote:

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

infinite monkey · 10-29-2012, 07:13 PM

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.

busterb · 10-29-2012, 08:54 PM

Hand cart for section hands

infinite monkey · 10-30-2012, 08:33 AM

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

Gravdigr · 10-31-2012, 03:15 PM

Are they just outside of Rock Ridge?

Quote:

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

infinite monkey · 10-31-2012, 03:36 PM

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

glatt · 10-31-2012, 06:02 PM

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

Rhianne · 10-31-2012, 06:22 PM

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

infinite monkey · 11-01-2012, 10:23 AM

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/

Spexxvet · 11-01-2012, 10:26 AM

cool

glatt · 11-01-2012, 10:31 AM

Kansas is flat!

xoxoxoBruce · 11-01-2012, 12:08 PM

How can you say that, why that second picture shows they had to cut through a massive hill.

Rhianne · 11-01-2012, 02:44 PM

I watched a TV documentary (a couple of times) from the 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' series which is why I gave the answer I did. It's a fascinating glimpse into a whole range of the problems and successes around the railroad's construction. Watch it if you can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_W...dustrial_World

10-29-2012, 08:12 AM	#1
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Where (what?) is this? Attached Images

10-29-2012, 08:27 AM	#2
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	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. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

10-29-2012, 08:54 PM	#5
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Hand cart for section hands __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

11-01-2012, 10:26 AM	#12
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	cool __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

11-01-2012, 12:08 PM	#14
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	How can you say that, why that second picture shows they had to cut through a massive hill. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-29-2012, 07:13 PM	#4
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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.

10-30-2012, 08:33 AM	#6
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	It is a hand cart. But where/on what?

10-31-2012, 03:36 PM	#8
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I don't know. They could be anywhere...we could track them the whole way.

10-31-2012, 06:02 PM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well, they are on a track. At a junction switch. In the middle of a flat plain.

10-31-2012, 06:22 PM	#10
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	Is it where the Eastern lot met the Western lot when they built the trans-continental railroad?

11-01-2012, 10:31 AM	#13
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Kansas is flat!

11-01-2012, 02:44 PM	#15
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	I watched a TV documentary (a couple of times) from the 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' series which is why I gave the answer I did. It's a fascinating glimpse into a whole range of the problems and successes around the railroad's construction. Watch it if you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_W...dustrial_World

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