Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Train Bell

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Train Bell: Bells are meant to be rung. That goes for church bells as well as train bells. In our case, the church bell was a train bell. Nothing object...

Railhead: Looking at, and for, railroad maps. Blog Mirror: Welcome to The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in Wyoming!

Railhead: Looking at, and for, railroad maps.: A long time ago, I published this item, which I'll post in its entirety down below, regarding a railroad map from 1916.  I could not lon...

I was sent this great model railroad website:

 Welcome to The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in Wyoming!

Wow, what a model layout.  It's fantastic.

Included on it, is this map, which we're directly linking in.:

Look at the pile of named spots on the rail line.

Some of these I recognize, some I don't.  The Colorado and Southern rail line from Glendo to Cheyenne is now a Burlington Northern rail line, I'd note.  The line running right up to Yellowstone National Park is a complete surprise.

The line running from Arminto in this depiction does not go into Shoshoni, and avoid the Wind River Canyon.  I was unaware that had been done.

Really interesting.

As are the model lines that this fellow is putting together.

Big Boy, World's Largest Locomotive, Leaves Cheyenne March 29 For Coast-To-Coast Tour

 

Big Boy, World's Largest Locomotive, Leaves Cheyenne March 29 For Coast-To-Coast Tour

Crew Clears 100+ Derailed Freight Cars From Track Near Cheyenne In 18 Hours

 

Crew Clears 100+ Derailed Freight Cars From Track Near Cheyenne In 18 Hours

NTSB, Union Pacific Mum On Hazardous Cargo On Train Near Gas Line Breach

 

NTSB, Union Pacific Mum On Hazardous Cargo On Train Near Gas Line Breach

20-Car Derailment In Albany County Starts Fire, Leaves Packages All Over Tracks

 

20-Car Derailment In Albany County Starts Fire, Leaves Packages All Over Tracks

 

88-Year-Old Cheyenne Railroad Veteran Donates Entire Railroading Collection To UW

Towns and Nature: Cheyenne, WY: Big Boy 4004 Static Display and Stor...

Towns and Nature: Cheyenne, WY: Big Boy 4004 Static Display and Stor...: ( Satellite ) Joss Moni posted that is at Holiday Park in Cheyenne, WY correct. been there to eat lunch many times Curt Schnitzer : August 1...

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, June 12, 1945. Penn Station.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, June 12, 1945. The suicide of the Japanes...: 

Penn Station, June 12, 1945.

Lex Anteinternet: Canadian railroad dispute ordered into arbitration.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The times more or les...:

August 23, 2024

The Canadian government has forced the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National railroads into arbitration with their unions, so rail traffic in Canada will resume shortly.

After no agreement was reached, the railroads had locked their workers out yesterday.

Towns and Nature: Salt Lake City, UT: UP, D&RG and Amtrak Depots

Towns and Nature: Salt Lake City, UT: UP, D&RG and Amtrak Depots: UP: ( Satellite ) D&RG: ( Satellite ) Amtrak: ( Satellite ) Street View , May 2024 [It appears that Salt Lake City has a streetcar syste...

Blog Mirror: Wyoming History: Golden Era For Railroads Brought Status, Luxury And Money

 

Wyoming History: Golden Era For Railroads Brought Status, Luxury And Money

Towns and Nature: Willow Island, NE: Wood Grain Elevator and UP Depot

Towns and Nature: Willow Island, NE: Wood Grain Elevator and UP Depot: Wood Elevator: ( Satellite ) Original Depot Location: (Satellite?, you can see the siding in the aerial photo below, but I could not find a ...

Industrial History: 1885 Viaduct near Sherman, WY

Industrial History: 1885 Viaduct near Sherman, WY: ( South Satellite and North Satellite ) Canvas Art posted Dale Creek Bridge, an iron bridge in Sherman, Wyoming, USA. A dangerous crossing t...

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. Rationing.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. German defeat in the B...: 

Sarah Sundin's excellent blog on daily events in World War Two, whose feed updates are no longer working, notes this item:

In US, “A” gas rationing cards (basic passenger car ration) are cut from three gallons per week to two gallons. 

Two gallons per week.

Could you get by on two gallons per week?  Most days I drive a 1/4 ton Utility Truck, which is better known as a Jeep, and while it's small, it gets terrible mileage.  I know that I use more than two gallons per week, but I would if I was driving my fuel efficient diesel truck as well.  If I was limited to two gallons per week, I'd have to make major life changes.

Should I be pondering this as Congress, through the neglect of Ukraine, pushes us ever closer to a war with Russia, should she invade the Balkans?

During World War Two I know that my grandfather had a different class of ration ticket as his vehicle was used for business.  His car was a "business coupe", which is about all I know about it.

I know it had a gasoline personnel heater, which probably provides a clue, but I still don't know who made it.

I had a 1954 Chevrolet at one time, and it got really good mileage.  Interestingly, a 1973 Mercury Comet, with a really powerful V8 engine we had, also did.  According to one site about older cars, the business couple should be something like this:

My '38 gets around 17-18 MPG @ 50 MPH. It drops to around 12-14 @ 60. She just doesn't like being pushed that hard.

My 54, and the 73, got much better mileage than that.

Whatever mileage the business coupé got, my father sort of brushed gasoline rationing off when I asked him about it, due to the other category of ticket.  I don't know what that really meant, however.

Of course, for most long travel of any kind, people took the train.  Something that we might want to consider as potentially being something that may very well return.  High speed rail, for that matter, may be coming to Wyoming.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, March 21, 1944. Dear John.

1940s, 1944, Aircraft, Churches, Continuation War, Kamikaze, Miles City Montana, New Guinea, Operation Margarethe, Operation U-Go, The relationship between men and women, The written word, World War Two

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, March 12, 1944. Derailed.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, March 12, 1944. Derailed.: 

Sunday, March 12, 1944. Derailed.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 12: 1944  Nineteen cars of a Union Pacific train derailed near the location of old Ft.Steele.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

A few photos of Ft. Steele (more are on the linked in site.

Ft. Fred Steele, Carbon County Wyoming

In the past, I haven't tended to post fort entries here, but for net related technical reasons, I'm going to, even though these arguably belong on one of my other blogs.  I'll probably cross link this thread in.

These are photographs of Ft. Fred Steele, a location that I've sometimes thought is the bleakest historical site in Wyoming.

One of the few remaining structures at Ft. Steele, the powder magazine.  It no doubt is still there as it is a stone structure.

The reason that the post was built, the Union Pacific, is still there.

Ft. Steele is what I'd regard as fitting into the Fourth Generation of Wyoming frontier forts, although I've never seen it described that way, or anyone other than me use that term.   By my way of defining them, the First Generation are those very early, pre Civil War, frontier post that very much predated the railroads, such as Ft. Laramie.  The Second Generation would be those established during the Civil War in an effort to protect the trail and telegraph system during that period during which the Regular Army was largely withdrawn from the Frontier and state units took over. The Third Generation would be those posts like Ft. Phil Kearney that were built immediately after the Civil War for the same purpose.  Contemporaneously with those were posts like Ft. Steele that were built to protect the Union Pacific Railroad.  As they were in rail contact with the rest of the United States they can't really be compared to posts like Ft. Phil Kearney, Ft. C. F. Smith or Ft. Caspar, as they were built for a different purpose and much less remote by their nature.

Ft. Sanders, after it was abandoned, remained a significant railhead and therefore the area became the center of a huge sheep industry. Quite a few markers at the post commemorate the ranching history of the area, rather than the military history.

One of the current denizens of the post.

Suttlers store, from a distance.

Union Pacific Bridge Tenders House at the post.

Current Union Pacific bridge.

Some structure from the post, but I don't know what it is.

The main part of the post's grounds.

This 1914 vintage highway marker was on the old Lincoln Highway, which apparently ran north of the tracks rather than considerably south of them, like the current Interstate Highway does today.