Contrail. At Curlew Campground, before we departed.
Contrail zoomed in upon.
I tried to get a picture of the gas price, but failed. This is the Snowville Flying J, in Utah.
We decided, after seeing a sign (or something) to make a detour to the Golden Spike Nation Historic Site. 'Cause, TRAINS!
We were driving down the highway when we saw a sign that said Rocket Museum (Or maybe Rocket Garden). We looked at each other. Greg came up on the radio. Yup, let's go!! Trains AND rockets, who could resist!
I liked the license plate frame on this car.
(I altered the license plate number)
There's a geocache there. Two, actually. I didn't have any data service so I didn't know about either one. But this one I spotted. Not having read the cache description I didn't know one was supposed to wander the exhibits gathering clues to the combination of the padlock. Fortunately for me, the last person had not fastened it properly, so it just came open. I emailed the cache owner about when I got home. Excellent cache, I would like to say!
I forget what this one is. I had heard of a lot of these rockets so they were interesting to me. Each one had a placard telling all about it.
That big tube is a section of space shuttle solid fuel booster.
This was really helpful for figuring out when to go next!!
A couple of guys were painting stuff in the very very warm sun.
Tried to show the wasp nests my son noticed. You can just see the guy painting over there on the other side.
We made it to the Golden Spike Historic Spot next. It was air-conditioned, had clean restrooms, helpful folks, a nice store, and informative exhibits. There is a picnic area outside, too. I highly recommend it.
Obligatory selfie.
Greg at the spot.
Telegraph wires.
Closeup of harp-type switch stand.
Looking back towards the golden spike area.
GE 25-ton diesel. I figured out it was a GE AFTER I had already emailed the park service...
UPDATE: I got an email from a locomotive engineer at the Golden Spike National Historic Site and he said "It is a Class B-50/50-IGE733 Locomotive Built by General Electric in 1950." It sure is a cutie!
I believe Kelly would approve of this woodpile.
An old Montgomery Ward tool box! Can't telll if the picture if the picture is blurry, or the tool box is just old!
Peering through Jupiter to locomotive 119 where Greg and Matt are talking to the docent.
Oil cans.
The top of the crosshead on Jupiter.
Crosshead.
Matt is trying to get the engine house cat to face the camera. The engine house guys said the cat hasn't been around around for a while. All the girls visiting were quite taken with it.
TWICE on this trip a dragonfly would perch on Greg's car antenna!
The guys at the engine house said there was a broken rail that was keeping them from running the locomotives. This is it.
Another view.
A dust devil off in the distance. Two really.
This railroad crossing is where the broken rail is.
Several cars, including ours, tried to go out the in road.
This is where we ate lunch. Shady, but very warm today!
Visitor's center.
I forget which direction this is.
A panorama of the Golden Spike Visitor's Center area.
Another panorama of the Golden Spike Visitor's Center area.
We left the Visitor's Center to head down the road to the Spiral, but decided so many miles of dirt road was not something we wanted to do, so we headed back towards the highway.
We stopped here to take some pictures of plants. I took a picture of the gate. This is on 7200 N Road, the road from the Golden Spike National Historic Site.
A log-periodic antenna. It is entirely possible I called it a logarithmic antenna at the time...
Matt wanted a picture of the interesting uplift, I guess you would call it.
So I took a number of pictures, trying to get a good one.
Maybe without a billboard?
And here we are
Closeup with pole
Closeup without pole. How did I do that?
I hope it don't rain. Well, it did, a bit, but not too bad.
I forget why I took this picture.
Link to an article about the proliferation of billboards in Utah. This image does not represent a good example of billboard pollution, but merely reminded me of it.
Well, that is blurry!
Matt commented on how pretty this mountain was, in the setting sun. I took a whole BUNCH of pics. This is the best one.
This is not the best one.
Neither is this one.
Nice rainbow!
The same rainbow, just few seconds later.
It's pacing us!!
Matt liked the view here, too, so I took a couple that are nearly identical.
Two motorcyclists on the wet road.
I just thought these two pictures were interesting.
Maybe I should put my glasses on?
I believe it was at the Flying J Travel Plaza in Beaver, Utah, that I glimpsed this GIANT BIRD, probably a ROC, swooping down, possibly upon some unwary traveler!!!
Or maybe it was on a trailer...
The distance of today's driving was approximately 437 miles.
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