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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 ...
Two Man Crews.
The United States Transportation Department has determined to maintain two-man crews on railroads.
Monday, March 25, 2024
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...
Friday, March 22, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. Rationing.
Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. German defeat in the B...:
I know it had a gasoline personnel heater, which probably provides a clue, but I still don't know who made it.
Sarah Sundin's excellent blog on daily events in World War Two, whose feed updates are no longer working, notes this item:
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.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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