– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Château de Chenonceau Now with winter starting to deliver the cold as well as colorless vistas I thought it was time to revisit summer and one of my favorite places for a vacation. The Loire Valley in France with its magnificent Châteaux is every architecture photographer’s dream. This image is of Château de...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bedford County Courthouse As with many Virginia county courthouses built in the early part of the nineteenth century, by the beginning of the twentieth century Bedford County had outgrown its existing building. By 1914 the residents of Bedford County had began to talk about a replacement. The situation only got...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Cumberland Depot In the last post we took a look at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s (WMSR) Consolidation 2-8-0 steam locomotive taking on water at the Cumberland Railroad Depot. Here we see the magnificent station building less than an hour before the arrival of the train. As you can see I had the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Western Maryland Scenic Railroad The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad (WMSR) is a tourist line that runs 16 miles from Cumberland to Frostburg, Maryland. The main locomotive for the railroad is the 1916 built Baldwin Consolidation 2-8-0 steam locomotive. This engine was originally built for the Lake Superior and...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – C&O Canal Boat Mule Team At Great Falls Tavern on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (C&O) in Maryland visitors are able to step back in time to the 1870s and experience the much slower pace of life. The Charles F Mercer is a replica of the light packet boats that plied their trade on the canal. The original...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Washington DC Central Library The Washington DC Central Library was the 11th of the public or university libraries built with money donated by Andrew Carnegie. In all, Carnegie funded the construction of over 2,000 libraries starting with the first in his birthplace of Dunfermline, Scotland in 1880. The first...
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