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20 October 2018: added “Union Pacific: Black Butte Subdivision” to “Abandoned Railroad Infrastructure” area

21 March 2018: updated several of the pages in the “Abandoned Stuff” area

29 January 2018: added Photo Of The Day

12 January 2018: added post “Portland Notes”

21 December 2017: added Photo Of The Day

10 December 2017: Added “Airfields (Abandoned & Repurposed): California

9 December 2017: added post “Historic Highways: Old US 99, Weed, CA”

26 November 2017: added post “Dog Creek Bridge”

15 August 2017: added post “Deadfall Lakes, Siskiyou County, CA”

11 June 2017: added post “Yellow Butte, Siskiyou County, CA”

31 May 2017: added post “Wildflowers on Haystack”

27 April 2017: added post “Haystack”

11 March 2017: Added historical maps for Allied Airstrip & Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Airfields (Abandoned & Repurposed): Arizona page

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My Current Reading List

Infrastructure, A Guide to the Industrial Landscape (Revised & Updated), by Brian Hayes, 2014 - an overview of the industrial environment, like mines, power plants, mills & refineries, the electrical grid, and more.

CODE, The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold, 2000 - A look at the development of digital communication and computing, from light signals to digital binary code

The Last Ranch - A Novel of the New American West, by Michael McGarrity, 2016 - the third in a series of fictional historical novels, tracing the roots of McGarrity's modern fictional New Mexico law officer Kevin Kerney. Throughout the series, McGarrity creates a spectacular sense of place and time as Kerney family members work their way across the American West, finally settling in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin.

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      • Airfields (Abandoned & Repurposed): Arizona
      • Airfields (Abandoned & Repurposed): California
      • Airfields (Abandoned & Repurposed): Indiana
    • Abandoned Railroad Infrastructure
      • El Paso & Southwestern Railroad: South Yard Junction to South Line Junction
      • Southern Pacific Railroad: Polvo (Tucson) to Vail, AZ
      • Union Pacific Railroad: Black Butte Subdivision
      • Railroad Water Towers
    • Abandoned Stuff – Other
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      • Pima County, Arizona, Area Survey Markers
      • Siskiyou County, California Survey Marks
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