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- A Bit Bare
- I disagree
- Liberating air
- The girl with the paddle
- The Age of (in)Convenience
- Protection from the Elements
- To each their own
- The world's largest whoopee cushion
- The sunset of an age
- And they put up a parking lot
- Inhale, not exhale
- Open call, Warhol auditions!
- Witness?
- Watson - Come lie on this!
- A Good Start
- Miss Direction
- Caption?
- Nothing to reveal here.
- Historical reversal
- My grandfather used to play one.
- Sausage legume
- Timing is everything
- Keep a lid on it
- The older old Greyhound terminal
- Sometime Long Ago
- Shoulda Never Attempted It
- The Rock’s grandmother
- His name is Frank
- Hot Air
- Was he a pioneer of balloon modelling ?
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Troubled Waters: 1864
1864. "Civil War R.R. operations, bridges and equipment -- Railway Bridge across Platt Creek (vicinity of Knoxville, Tenn.)" Wet plate negative. View full size.
Old School Virtual Reality
Half of a stereo pair, click for bigger, in a new tab:
Replacement bridges
I would assume from the contract between the substantial stone piers and the makeshift decks, that these are the replacements after the bridge burnings
Risky Business
Check out the temporary nature of the rail bridge. I don't think I would take a train over this at anything above a "creep". Pretty sketchy.
East Tennessee Bridge Burning Conspiracy
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