Clear the Main for the Super Van by James Belmont
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Union Pacific's SUPRV has swapped crews in record time as it blasts off from Milford, Utah on March 18, 1979. A double spout water tower and other relics from the steam era still dot the landscape. All of this, including the service tracks and the original LA&SL Mission style depot are long gone now.
Julius Rolshoven (b.1858 - d.1930), 'Woman with a Fan', oil on canvas, no date (1800s/1900s), American, sold for $650 USD at Shannon's, Milford, CT, USA, June 2021.
In North Tipperary, particularly around the area bordering on County Offaly, one frequently comes across variants of the same late 18th century house: tall (usually three storeys over basement), narrow (often only one room deep), grey and plain, its facade only relieved by a limestone pedimented doorcase reached via a flight of steps. Milford conforms to this type and, as is frequently the case,…
Louisville & Nashville No. 3, the Chicago–Danville, Ill., train formerly named the Danville Flyer, stops at Milford, Ill., in August 1970. The last passenger train on the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois, it will expire with the advent of Amtrak.
William M. Scott photo
Original May 1949 caption: "Wrecked on the way to New York from Miami was the Orange Blossom Special Monday at Milford, Va. One car, foreground, overturned. Twenty-three people hurt."
A waterfall near Raymondskill Falls in May 2019
In certain places, there can be a number of different waterfalls…so many so that people don’t know what to do with them all. They may not put them on a map or name them. Raymondskill Creek is one of those areas. I’ve got six waterfalls on the map, though the main focus is impressive falls Raymondskill Falls. I’ve posted about the other five…
Charles James Theriat (b.1860 - d.1934), 'By the River', oil on panel, c.1898, American, passed in at est. $8,000 - $12,000 USD at Shannons, Milford, CT, USA, June 2021.