Out west

[tamrock]

This last week I went to northern Nevada. These are some I took along the way out and back. The 2nd picture is what's left of the original grade of the transcontinental railroad as it heads north to a little town of Montello, NV and then it went over the north shore of the Great Salt lake. Today the main line runs across the south shore of the lake. The week before last, I80 Nevada was closed due to the snow and I cancelled my planes to go then. The weather turned out okay this week, other than the high winds in Wyoming. I got me a ticket from the NVHP around Battle Mountain, NV on I80 for talking on my phone while driving. I now have to pay $115.00 to the state of Nevada before April 9th. I gotta get me a hands free head set, like those professional OTR drivers use. I guess I won't do that again.

 

[vpnavy]

Super photographs Tamrock. Thanks for sharing...

 

[WannaDig3687]

Those are some fantastic photographs! Costly, though.

 

[BosnMate]

When I lived in Nevada, during the last century, there was no speed limit, and no hen house rules. That all changed with Jimmy Carter and the 55mph speed limit. I remember getting a ticket in Dayton. Town cop got me. There was only one stop sign, and that was a speed trap. My ticket was for doing a California stop. East of Dayton I recall a long straight away, and I was doing 85. NHP pulled out around me and dissappeared off into the distance.

 

[Ogre1190]

Love those wide, open spaces. 😁

 

[tamrock]

When I lived in Nevada, during the last century, there was no speed limit, and no hen house rules. That all changed with Jimmy Carter and the 55mph speed limit. I remember getting a ticket in Dayton. Town cop got me. There was only one stop sign, and that was a speed trap. My ticket was for doing a California stop. East of Dayton I recall a long straight away, and I was doing 85. NHP pulled out around me and dissappeared off into the distance.

I hitchhiked across I-80 in around 1975 on my way to California. It was then the end of unrestricted speed limit I believe. I was dropped off around 10: PM in Golconda. I went into this bar called the Waterhole and what all transpired from the time my long-haired ass, walked into that door that night turned out to be an event in my life I'll never forget. Little did I know I'd be driving by that place again and again 20 years later on my way to a gold mine call Turquoise Ridge that I've doing business with since the mid-1990s. That bar is closed now, but maybe 10 year's ago it was still open. I went to look inside and it still looked as it did with the same pool table and dimly-lit bar as it did that summer night, back in 1975.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Beautiful photography!

 

[WannaDig3687]

I hitchhiked across I-80 in around 1975 on my way to California. It was then the end of unrestricted speed limit I believe. I was dropped off around 10: PM in Golconda. I went into this bar called the Waterhole and what all transpired from the time my long-haired ass, walked into that door that night turned out to be an event in my life I'll never forget. Little did I know I'd be driving by that place again and again 20 years later on my way to a gold mine call Turquoise Ridge that I've doing business with since the mid-1990s. That bar is closed now, but maybe 10 year's ago it was still open. I went to look inside and it still looked as it did with the same pool table and dimly-lit bar as it did that summer night, back in 1975.

You going to tell us what happened or leave us hanging?

 

[tamrock]

You going to tell us what happened or leave us hanging?

It's a long story and a night I'll not forget, so I'll just keep it to myself. People out there were pretty rough, rowdy and packing back then. When I went in that bar maybe 10 years ago, I could still recall where the pool of blood was on the floor between the bar in the pool table. I didn't fall asleep that night and did get a ride to Lovelock, Nevada just as the sun was coming up the next day. From there an old fella from Helena, Montana who lost 3 fingers on a drill derrick, took me all the way to Hayward, California. Boy was that ever a ride. The CHP in the bay area stopped him 2 times for going to slow and other motorists were yelling and shaking their fists at the poor old guy. We definitely look like a couple of Okies in all that hustle and bustle. I was only 19 back then, but could grow a full beard and I altered my selective service card to make me 21 years old. I got a job with a place called R & S doors, that fixed and sold garage doors and rolling steel doors. We went all over San Francisco and Oakland everyday fixing broken doors, back then.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

When I lived in Nevada, during the last century, there was no speed limit, and no hen house rules. That all changed with Jimmy Carter and the 55mph speed limit. I remember getting a ticket in Dayton. Town cop got me. There was only one stop sign, and that was a speed trap. My ticket was for doing a California stop. East of Dayton I recall a long straight away, and I was doing 85. NHP pulled out around me and dissappeared off into the distance.

Yup, Bosn, got me for $207 at Eureka a few years ago. Sudden change in speed limit right at the top of the hill coming in from the west. Cop sitting at the sheriff's station at the bottom of the hill. Obvious speed trap. Unless you slammed on the brakes, they had you.
Jim