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Nice photos. I'm part of a railroading family so some of these look like the calendar photos that came with the annual calendars that employees could or did get

Nice photos. I'm part of a railroading family so some of these look like the calendar photos that came with the annual calendars that employees could or did get. I'm pretty sure that the caption on the 12th photo is wrong though. It is captioned "Winona, Minnesota" and, being a geoscientist, I'm pretty sure that the photo was taken somewhere else. That part of Minnesota was scraped relatively flat and then eroded by melt-water from the glaciers in the last ice age. It is not covered by high mountain desert vegetation as in that photo but instead has lots of lakes and mixed hardwood forests. I believe that the photo comes from near Winona, Arizona. The mountains in the background appears to be in the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff. Another trainspotter took this photo [0] along the same tracks but from a different vantage point. You can see the background is the same though. [0]https://www.flickr.com/photos/bb9604/27448935498/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bb9604/27448935498/

CommieBobDole 4y ago
You are correct - it was taken from just off the side of the road at the south end of the bridge where Townsend-Winona road crosses the railroad tracks. You can see everything lines up on the street view, including the two telephone poles. https://goo.gl/maps/v53oXcHXUpU49mXr7 https://goo.gl/maps/v53oXcHXUpU49mXr7
- doodlebugging 4y ago
  Great work. I recognized the mountains since we passed through the area and stayed in Flagstaff for several days a few years ago. It is quite beautiful out there.
quickthrowman 4y ago
> It is captioned "Winona, Minnesota" and, being a geoscientist, I'm pretty sure that the photo was taken somewhere else. That part of Minnesota was scraped relatively flat and then eroded by melt-water from the glaciers in the last ice age. A minor nitpick, Winona, MN is part of the Driftless Area that was not covered by glaciers during the last ice age. It was definitely shaped by glacial meltwaters, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area
- doodlebugging 4y ago
  Thank you for this. I did not know that part of Minnesota and Wisconsin have no evidence of glaciation from the last ice age. I imagine then that all the landforms are related to outflow of melt-water from the glaciers as they receded. I appreciate that information and for anyone else interested in glacial landforms I found a great Story Map to shows in DEM models and in photos what you would expect to see post-glaciation. [1] [1]https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d42e860ad0147bfac7a4f9672177ccd https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d42e860ad0147bfac7a4f9... Enjoy, and learn something like I did.

CommieBobDole 4y ago

You are correct - it was taken from just off the side of the road at the south end of the bridge where Townsend-Winona road crosses the railroad tracks. You can see everything lines up on the street view, including the two telephone poles. https://goo.gl/maps/v53oXcHXUpU49mXr7 https://goo.gl/maps/v53oXcHXUpU49mXr7

doodlebugging 4y ago
Great work. I recognized the mountains since we passed through the area and stayed in Flagstaff for several days a few years ago. It is quite beautiful out there.

quickthrowman 4y ago

> It is captioned "Winona, Minnesota" and, being a geoscientist, I'm pretty sure that the photo was taken somewhere else. That part of Minnesota was scraped relatively flat and then eroded by melt-water from the glaciers in the last ice age. A minor nitpick, Winona, MN is part of the Driftless Area that was not covered by glaciers during the last ice age. It was definitely shaped by glacial meltwaters, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftless_Area

doodlebugging 4y ago
Thank you for this. I did not know that part of Minnesota and Wisconsin have no evidence of glaciation from the last ice age. I imagine then that all the landforms are related to outflow of melt-water from the glaciers as they receded. I appreciate that information and for anyone else interested in glacial landforms I found a great Story Map to shows in DEM models and in photos what you would expect to see post-glaciation. [1] [1]https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d42e860ad0147bfac7a4f9672177ccd https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8d42e860ad0147bfac7a4f9... Enjoy, and learn something like I did.