– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Thin Blue Line The Thin Blue Line is a sculpture of a police officer’s head in downtown Richmond, VA. This 12-foot tall woven stainless steel piece of art is on the wall of the Richmond Police Department Headquarters. It was created by Michael Stutz. It livens up what can only be described as a very utilitarian...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Fly-in to Victory Ground Crew In an earlier post we looked at the Reflections of the Fly-in to Victory Day at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Not only were there the warbirds for everyone to admire but there were also a group of reenactors...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – EMD GP-9 Today we return to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore to take a look at the GP-9 diesel-electric locomotive. General Motor’s Electro-Motive Division (EMD) released the GP-9 in January 1954 as an upgrade to the highly successful GP-7. A total of 4,112 EMD GP-9 units were manufactured. US production...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Hanover Tavern The Hanover Tavern is part of the Hanover Courthouse National District. The early story of the tavern is closely linked to the Hanover County Courthouse which lies on the opposite side of U.S. Route 301. A license was first granted for a tavern at the site in 1733, two years before the start of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Model A Ford 4-Door Convertible In the last post we took a look at creating a reasonable facsimile of the historic era represented by the preserved Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 Locomotive. In that particular image patience was required to achieve the desired result. Today we...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 Locomotive A few months ago we took a look at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad in Cumberland, Maryland. In particular that post showed the railroad’s 1916 built Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 steam locomotive. At the time I was there, No 734 had just been brought into the...
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