Blog Mirror: Lex Anteninternet: The Big Picture: D. & I.R. R.R. Co. ore dock and city of Two Harbors, Minnesota. Copyright deposit August 23, 1917.

Lex Anteninternet:  The Big Picture: D. & I.R. R.R. Co. ore dock and city of Two Harbors, Minnesota. Copyright deposit August 23, 1917.

Union Pacific Building, Denver Colorado.

This is a Union Pacific building in downtown Denver.  I don't know anything about this building.  It's not far from Union Station so presumably it wasn't a depot.

Old and new: The path of the Union Pacific in Albany and Carbon Counties, Wyoming.

Hard to pick out in these photos, but the old, 19th Century, rail bed and the new 20th Century rail bed of the Union Pacific are both visible in this photograph, albeit barely.

Watching the A Train While I'm in a traffic jam

Blog Mirror: Enough of this Tomfoolery; The History of the Mailrail

Enough of this Tomfoolery:  The History of the Mailrail

April 17, 2017 ~ woostersauce2014

Deep under the streets of London and its snarl of urban traffic is a virtually unknown railway that for 75 years was an artery in Britain’s postal network. Seventy feet below ground, the Post Office railway (more commonly known as the Mail Rail), carried post from Paddington to London sorting offices from 1923 until it was finally abandoned in 2003 due to changing technology.

Lex Anteinternet: Chicago and Northwestern Warehouse Fire, Casper Wyoming

Lex Anteinternet: Chicago and Northwestern Warehouse Fire, Casper Wyoming

A disaster struck Casper Wyoming on this day in 1917.  A warehouse belonging to the Chicago and Northwestern, and used also by C. H. Townsend, caught fire.  It was the largest fire in the town since a 1905 livery stable fire.

Lonely rail, Natrona County Wyoming

Taken, of course, from one of rail's competitors, a commercial airliner.

Lex Anteinternet: Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5...

Rally for Public Lands, Casper Wyoming, November 5, 2016

 



 Rally for Public Lands:

 Join Us!

—WHEN—

Saturday, November 5th

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

—WHERE—

Izaak Walton League,

4205 Fort Caspar Road

—WHAT—

Live music, keynote speakers, food & drinks!

Lex Anteinternet: Rail Transportation and the Punitive Expedition (a...

Lex Anteinternet: Rail Transportation and the Punitive Expedition (a...: We've been recently posting a selection of items about the transportation of the Wyoming National Guard to Camp Cody, New Mexico, in 19...

Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard, what was it doing and ...

Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming National Guard, what was it doing and ...: I posted this item two years ago on the Mid Week at Work Thread.  It occurs to me that it may very well be appropriate for the Wyoming Nati...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock...

Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock...: Lex Anteinternet: The Big Picture: Rail and Stock Yards, Omaha Nebraska in 1916 We've run this one before, in 2013, but we&...