A view of the Past, Vintage Photos

This is what happens when locations are not disclosed. They languish and rot until owner dies then go to auction and sell at scrap price. There were over 50 trucks, 150 cars most of which were "projects" that dreamers purchased and abandoned on this property a few miles from my house

 

What a waste.

I cannot begin to imagine the money it will take to rehabilitate those.

 

I have a co-worker like that. He has over 280 cars. Keeps buying them with plans of fixing them or restoring them. He never works on them and they just sit there and rot away. He won't sell anything either. He tried the buy the car that I currently have that is almost done, 9 years after I started working on it.

 

Top pic is a White 3000, center pic, from left, a L series Dodge, couple panel vans, Ford "Big Job", an IH R180 and bottom pic, is a late 40's Diamond T.

 

The device next to the old sway backed outside braced wooden boxcar from the 1920 era appears to be a dynamo, capable of generating maybe 20Kw of electric power hooked to a three wire common. But I don't know if the necessary magnets are still contained in the thing or not.

 

Not related to trucking, but I thought some of you might enjoy this:
Was looking at a job today and couldn't resist.

 

No, it is a gold dredge that operated up until 1951. We earn our living putting the streams back where they were before the disturbance, to enhance fish habitat (that is why I was there today).

 

I do believe I saw something like that on the television a while back. Interesting setup for sure.

 

They sure enough turned the valley floor upside down, but got a lot of gold. You can't see it with the snow, but it is floating. They had dead man anchors in the ground on the sides, and would pull themselves back and forth from side to side, and up the valley, all the while creating a pond ahead of them and dumping the spoils behind.
They have made a museum out of it now.