Random Picture Thread

Post 7531 reminds me of my youth. Campsite, Earnest Harmon Air Force Base Late 40's early 50's, Stephenville Newfoundland. Uncle Sam has arrived.

 

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Soviet Early Warning System

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Do you know why the ice man was the happiest guy in town?

He always had his pick.

 

Riding on a "Land Yacht" at the end of a train.

 

The SS Neuse.

 

I did not know Norfolk and Southern had it own navy!

 

This was not the company now going by that name. It was a small independent railroad in Virginia and North Carolina dating back to the late 1800s. It was absorbed by the Southern Railway in 1974 which merged with the Norfolk & Western in 1982 to become the modern Norfolk & Southern. The old N&S maintained a ferry system in the tidewater region of Virginia.
The old railroad herald.

 

If at first you don't succeed...

 

Supposedly, this is fog in Death Valley.


“Lonely salt lake.” Aerial shot was taken in Death Valley national park from a small plane. (Photo and caption by Stas Bartnikas / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest)
Stas Bartnikas Photographer Profile — National Geographic Your Shot http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/321431/#b/

 

Why do you think it's fog? It looks like a water-borne mineral deposit to me. Either way, striking photo.

 

I'm not sure it's fog, but this guy said so. .
fog http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?223735-fog
I'm thinking it's as you say, mineral deposits

Here is some fog. Or so they say.





Lightning bolts? Nope. Fractal Fog. - ImaGeo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2013/10/01/lightning-bolts-nope-fractal-fog/#.WSHao8a1vIV

It's not important anymore that you know what is or isn't real, what's important now is that you don't know.

 

The Hesper and Luther Little in Wiscasset, Maine.

 

Inside the Baltimore shipyard that produced hundreds of WWII vessels at incredible speed http://mashable.com/2017/05/14/building-liberty-ships/#FJhziihQeSqw

I worked for Captain Charles "Charlie" Carroll as a ship surveyor in Brunswick. (This Liberty Ship is named for a different person, maybe a relative.) He was at one time, or maybe for all time (I don't remember) the youngest Liberty Ship Captain of them all. His whole life was as a merchant seaman, the whole world was his home. The stories he could tell.

They used to make them here, this is the old ship ways that are still there.

Have Retirement. Will Travel.: Our Visit To Fort Frederica, St Simons Lighthouse and Brunswick, Georgia http://www.haveretirementwilltravel.com/2013/04/our-visit-to-fort-frederica-st-simons.html