Two of my favorite subjects, Yosemite and trains, feature in today’s episode of California’s Gold. Huell absolutely loved riding on old trains, and the scenery is of course spectacular. I found it especially interesting that at the time this episode was filmed, the forest the train travels through was no more than 70 years old — having been entirely clear […]
Anyone who knows me knows I absolutely love trains, and I have longed to ride the Skunk Train between Fort Bragg and Willets ever since the first time I visited Fort Bragg as a child. Sadly, an excursion on the California Western Railroad is still on my to-do list — but since the Skunk Train is so popular and well-known, […]
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week: Anything With Engines or Motors.
I was trying to capture the bright red reflection of the sun in the train window. Instead I got a very nice candid shot of a fellow commuter.
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Lights.
I didn’t make it to Jamestown on my recent trip to the Mother Lode; but Huell spent a weekend there for this 2010 episode of Road Trip, and he clearly enjoyed himself. Whether you’re to hunt for antiques, pan for gold, or take a ride on the historic train, there’s plenty to do in Jamestown. Huell travels to the historic […]
The other day I just happened to catch a few minutes of the Science Channel’s show Impossible Engineering: Extreme Railroads and saw the Goat Canyon Trestle — I instantly remembered that I’d seen it before, in this episode of California’s Gold which first aired in 1999. The trestle, located within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, is fairly hard to get to but […]
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. I want to see inside, outside or through windows. Any type of window works, building windows, vehicle windows, ship portholes, airplanes. As long as I get the idea your are seeing what’s on the other side of a window.