Well, shucks - I lived right here in the thriving metropolis and capitol city of NE! Didn'tcha ever get to square dance up there in them thar hills?
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We had square dancing in grade school in the old south (Jersey!). I think that's what ruined me socially.
I guess we just weren't as sophisticated as them there Nebraskaonianites. We tended to play dodge ball. I played the position of target.
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Dodge ball must have "dribbled" down from the Dakotas - we played it too. One of the more painful games!
Shoot, I belonged to a square dance club when I was a young teenager…overseas in Japan it was a blast, they thought it was fun too.
The base had a dance every Wednesday night, with guest callers from all branches of the services.
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Mookie Dodge ball must have "dribbled" down from the Dakotas - we played it too. One of the more painful games!
Especially so if you use a real Dodge.
Mookie In grade school PE, we used to square dance. I loved it! This was one of the songs we used.
In grade school PE, we used to square dance. I loved it! This was one of the songs we used.
I remember that one on a 78 called by Fenton "Jonesy" Jones. Of course, that was (incoherent mumbling) years ago.
When I was in college, no social dancing was allowed--we did have square dances, so a square dance must be anti-social? Or, was it simply a-social?
Johnny
Social Security dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR4zy_KTdYE
My parents used to square dance, even did it at the Federal pavilion at the 64 World's Fair where each and every time going home, the old man would get lost and curse a blue streak. Even jumped over a highway median and tore the muffler off our 56 Ford. How did the song go? Oh yeah..
Slap your partner in the face,
write bad checks all over the place.
Get real drunk and annoy your spouse,
get a divorce and lose your house
Doe Cee doe.
This is video is of "The Last Train To Nowhere", a train near Nome, Alaska that has not moved in over 100 years. As the equipment is busily rusting away and also sinking into the ground, it may not be long before there is nothing left. While it is on video, of course the train moves nowhere in the video. I'd say that qualifies closely for the thread subject of "Nothing at Nowhere".
YouTube video:
An overall view of the area:
The photo is from this Seattle Times article about the Train to Nowhere:
http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2004343368_tr_nomealaska13.html
More information on the former Council City and Solomon River Railroad is here:
http://www.visitnomealaska.com/PDF's/Trains%20of%20the%20Seward%20Peninsula.pdf
Egad! Is that a bike trail?? You hear about "rails to trails", but that's the first "locomotive to trails" project I think I have ever seen.
I guess taking turns staring out the window at the darkness is a bit tricky when there ain't no windows.
Are you in a common upper berth (no windows)?
More on "The Last Train to Nowhere". No video at the link, but a variety of different photos, including the one I have linked here:
Here is the site link: http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/08/last-train-to-nowhere-abandoned-trains.html
Deggesty, actually I met up with a gambler. Basard drank up my whiskey.
I've seen photos of that equipment by Nome, Alaska in several different railroad books. It always made me wonder why somebody said "Well boys, that's enough. I believe we'll just leave this puppy here, and let it rust into the tundra". Now looking at it's whereabouts, and close it is to the ocean, I wonder why no one salvaged it back then?
Probably because it's in the middle of nowhere
CSSHEGEWISCH Probably because it's in the middle of nowhere
Literally.....
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Isn't there or ain't there pictures of an American looking diesel sitting in the middle of Australia, in a place where there never was a railroad? In the back of whoop whoop as they say in Oz. Or so I understand.
Possibly you are referring to a locomotive in the Australian Outback, at Maree ....
More on the history of railroads through Maree here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree,_South_Australia
For sale!!!
Rader SidetrackPossibly you are referring to a locomotive in the Australian Outback, at Maree ....
Ah, the NSU class. I suspect M636 can give us full details.
It's possible that every single one of these locomotives is still in existence in some form!
US 50 ... The Highway to nowhere:
Yes, I was referring to that one. Got to go to Australia some day.
Actually it's the "loneliest highway in America". I know it well. I even lived on it in Ely for a couple years. If I'm not mistaken Eureka is about 15 miles behind and Ely is 60 miles ahead in this shot.
Yes, I have been there, if Chad is right about the location. Two lanes--with a 70 mph speed limit as I recall. I came home from Las Vegas sixteen years ago (having taken a class in air shipment of dangerous goods there), seeing a bit more of Nevada than can be seen from I 15, and traveled part way on US 50.
Hi Johnny, Where were you going from Vegas? Not many Vegas trips include 50, at least not in Nevada. Just curious.
As I said, I was seeing more of Nevada. I went up to Ely, over to Eureka, up to Palisade, and then east from Palisade. It was a nice day's trip. I bought gasoline in Ely--using one of the pumps that by then was out of style--before beginning to pump, you had to turn a crank to clear the previous purchase..
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