Where Is This? - Page 80

Aliantha · 09-06-2012, 06:47 PM

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.

gtown · 09-06-2012, 09:25 PM

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

Elspode · 09-06-2012, 10:55 PM

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.

gtown · 09-06-2012, 11:12 PM

Winner!

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

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.

Quote:

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/

09-06-2012, 06:47 PM	#1186
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	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. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

09-06-2012, 10:55 PM	#1188
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	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. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

10-29-2012, 08:12 AM	#1190
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	#1191
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	#1194
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.

09-06-2012, 09:25 PM	#1187
gtown Master of the Domain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 238	Not New Mexico (or an adjoining state). Not spacey, but definitely sciencey.

09-06-2012, 11:12 PM	#1189
gtown Master of the Domain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 238	Winner! Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant and U.S. National Historic Landmark.

10-29-2012, 07:13 PM	#1193
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	#1195
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	#1197
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	#1198
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	#1199
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?

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