Sunday, May 17, 2026

they spent a LOT of time on painting this Vette, but the using the song title for a name? That's going to be an earworm stuck in your head if you're over the age of 50



https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230657675136193&set=pcb.26760784410272940

a model locomotive found on Facebook marketplace, is one of 4 locomotives that were built by the Pennsylvania Railroad for use at the 1926 World's Fair in Philadelphia, and the only one ever found, the others have been lost to time.


This is in Train Collectors Quarterly.

Mach 1 with a stuck throttle... and not enough brakes and traction to prevent a collision with a support beam, at Mecum's auction this week


ever heard of a Wheel Rocket?


In 1932, George Palmer was flying over the border between California and Arizona, near Blythe, and discovered the Intaglios... similar to, but 1000 years older, than the Nazca lines, these were made about 3000 years ago


After National Geographic published an article about the Blythe Intaglios in 1952, people began to visit the site which led to some destruction of the intaglios.



there are about 200 of them in the Colorado river area, and about 300 of the Nazca lines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_Intaglios