#erie

[roomhole]

[lake-lady]

Stormy vibes on Lake Erie this afternoon for the Erie fans

[possessedpasm]

Spring, 1969

Commission for @sheisawantedman 🌻

[twogriffons]

[erieforage]

This is my favorite dwarf pear tree, and it’s flowering. I decided to take the evening shot because there’s going to be a frost. I’m not going to cover the tree just because it could probably use a year off from production. So I figure if it frosts, it’s just a way to give it rest. I wanted to get a shot just in case the flowers drop.

[20th-century-railroading]

Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Baldwin (built 1929) 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive 93 leads an EXTRA (with white flags flying) manifest freight train out of the New Haven Railroad Yard at Maybrook, New York, ca 1940's

Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Baldwin (built 1929) 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive 93 leads an EXTRA (with white flags flying) manifest freight train out of the New Haven Railroad Yard at Maybrook, New York, ca 1940's. These Consolidation steam locomotives were among the largest and most powerful of this type of steam locomotive with 71,500 lbs of starting tractive effort. The Western Maryland had the most powerful of all Consolidation classes that produced 74,000 lbs of starting tractive effort. Just look at the width of the oversized giant Wooten firebox provided for burning anthrecite coal. You can see the fireman in his cab window looking ahead. The two tracks that turnout from the yard lead to the Lehigh & Hudson River right-of-way. You can see many long gone railroad names of the freight cars, such as the Northern Pacific boxcar behind the tender, and to the left a ERIE hopper car along with a Southern Pacific - T&NO boxcar.

[eckoz-ofa-hauntedpassion]

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez “Silver Dagger” Gannon College, December 10, 1972.

[Audience member: “Silver Dagger!”]

“Oh wow, that’s only 400 years old—let me see if I remember that, that’s tempting. That “Silver Dagger” song is the most requested song, which is very significant if you’ve ever listened to it. It’s the most, ultimately miserable—depressing [laughs] beautiful! old song...My sister was singing in a club a while ago and she’d worked out this song with her singing partner, “Alone Again, Naturally.” So she felt she sort of had to excuse it to the audience because it was an AM radio song, she said, “What’s this folky people like us, picking up on an AM radio song?” She said, “Then I figured out it was just another miserable fucking song” [laughs] And it’s...something very appealing about all those miserable songs—I don’t know if I’m going to remember this thing or not. And I’m not high, I’m always like this...”

[prairiedeath]

sherman cahal

[professorcloudsart]

[sonicluxhedgeman]

Here's my art summary for 2023!!

Thank you so much for all your support!! Let's hope 2024 will be even better! :D

[erieaudio]

me and the eldritch monster I pulled by being autistic

[twogriffons]

[erieforage]

Final trim on the winter pears. The robin came back when I was done.

[20th-century-railroading]

“C&NW's Kaukauna- Appleton Jct. Way Frt. Fox River Bridge Eng 2509" taken in December 1953.

[bathroom-on-the-right]

Idk what it is, but the whole point of the Erie Canal seems to have totally passed over me in school. I thought it was a little man-made little tiny digging operation that connected Lake Erie to Lake Ontario (pictured expertly below):

Turns out this is incredibly wrong. And for what public education is worth, I feel like this detail slipped through the cracks for me. But not even just me, I polled an extremely small group of 5 people and 2 of them had the same EXACT thought as I did. Clearly this means something.

And the weird thing is that, in my head, I was thinking like "it's crazy that dudes in the 1800's were able to move that much earth out of the way to make a canal like that". But that was for that little strip of land there. And I totally accepted that there wasn't any connection between the two Great Lakes in the first place. In spite of this, here's the actual Erie Canal:

It goes across the whole damn state, stretching 363 MILES. This shit was completed in 1825, and connects the Hudson River all the way over to the Niagara River, as well as the Great Lakes in general. I imagine this was a next-level feat of the day.

I'm told it isn't used much for commerce anymore, but can make for a nice tourist trip. And now sitting and looking at it, I'm still thinking like "damn that's a lot of stuff to dig in the 1800's". Plus, this whole thing only took 8 years to finish! Maybe I'm underestimating 1800's time, but damn.