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Forum: Lens Clubs 06-17-2019, 03:39 PM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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These images - like all f you submissions here - are gorgeous. Skyline Drive around Waynesboro and the A.T. North from Waynesboro to the Maryland border is one of my three favorite places (the other two being Cimarron, NM / the Sagebrush Prairie of eastern NM and Western Texas and SW Colorado / San Juan Mountains.
Forum: Lens Clubs 06-05-2019, 03:13 PM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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Home of the Heart.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-21-2019, 05:09 PM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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I went to UVA in the 70’s. I spent many a Thursday evening in the vicinity of Lynchburg ;) and Saturdays exploring the surrounding ‘just standard’ countryside. It is beautiful country. I took my family on a college tour of central Virginia and North Carolina one year.

My youngest ended up at U of Richmond. The Charlottesville weekend visiting my old stomping grounds and historic sites in the vicinity was fun. Your Monticello shots and distinctive landscapes made me a bit sentimental :)
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-16-2019, 02:50 PM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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Love that.
Forum: Lens Clubs 05-05-2019, 11:10 AM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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Forum: Lens Clubs 10-20-2018, 07:16 AM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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WOW! Amazing how similar the river fronts look - but now that I see it in context and properly orientedthere aren’t any buildings between the Arch Grounds and the River. :o

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Forum: Lens Clubs 10-20-2018, 05:15 AM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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In 1840 there was only 2,800 miles of total railroad trackage in the entire country. By 1920 there was 193,000+ miles of interconnected trackage. Most of the 1840 trackage was in the East and South, a little in the Midwest (Ohio was then the Midwest) and West. It was disconnected and not of a standard gauge. (Source American-Rails.com) Travel from New York - Cincinnati would have been by river, canal flatboats, wagon drayage and coach, with no central ‘travel agent’ to plan the trip, and constant unloading and transferring of possessions. Making that trip would have been nearly impossible for an immigrant to arrange, and very dangerous as well.

The Eads Bridge, from whence it appears your photo was taken, was completed in 1874. Prior to the Civil War and certainly not in 1840, there simply wasn’t enough population west of Philadelphia to justify an extensive railroad network, so rivers and canals, riverboats and horse-drawn or poled flatboats served for transportation.

Opening the West post Civil War, generated so much commerce and wealth that railroads made sense. Congress encouraged railroad development by passing the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1866, The half century from 1870 - 1920 was a period of furious railroad construction to exploit the federal largess, fed by as well as allowing the exploding immigrant population and economic development.

By 1900 St. Louis, the Gateway to the West, was the most populous city west of Philadelphia, and fabulously wealthy for the time. That also set the conditions for St. Louis’ decline, as St. Louis banks had attempted to preserve the (rail and river) transportation bottleneck here. The railroad industry in particular - but everything to do with transportation - was marked by unmitigated, rapacious greed on the part of owners and financiers.

Chicago, courtesy of the 1888 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (Chicago, Santa Fe & California) mainline from Kansas City, through the Quad Cities, ‘happened’ as the natural result of St..Louisans ’ shortsightedness.
Forum: Lens Clubs 02-04-2018, 07:51 PM  
HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm F2.8 Club
Posted By monochrome
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Nearly Walking


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