#burns oregon

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BURNS, Oregon-EARLY STREET-SCENE- Date Unknown

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Poison Creek North of Burns Oregon - Harney County - September 2019

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I grew up just a few blocks away from a crossing where this train passed. It always headed out early in the morning before the sun came up to Seneca for log loads that they would bring back to Hines, Oregon where the Hines Lumber Mill would turn them into pine lumber and then ship it back out via Union Pacific. When this photo was taken I was seven and had already been a long time train fan.

When I was still a toddler I would hear the train whistle in the wee hours of the morning and I would wake up my dad to get him to take me to the crossing and see the log train. He was older and slept in a union suit. Those full body underwear things that had button flaps at the back. Some people call them long john’s. He would load me up in the VW bug we had at the time and drive me down to watch the train amble by. Mom finally got tired of it and said that we couldn’t drive down but I still remember my dad standing in front of our place with me on his shoulders on cold frosty mornings watching this train pull empty log cars north through town.

Here’s an obscure fallen flag. It’s an Oregon & Northwestern Baldwin AS616 switching some log cars in Burns, OR, in 1974, 10 years before the railroad shut down.

[cat-cosplay]

I was there for the fall of AOHell.

When Geocities faded.

When chat rooms were the thing.

The MySpace rush.

The rise and fall of flash.

Our modems screamed the song of digital freedom to my generation.

All things fade.

[marnz]

The Grand Canyon is nice and everything but it is not the deepest gorge in North America (sorry Arizona). That would be Hell’s Canyon, in Washington. In some places it is two thousand feet deeper than the Grand Canyon! 7, 993 feet. Everyone say thank you Snake River.

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Watering Hole Near Burns Oregon 1910

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[yorktaylor]

i try to not talk about world events too much on here bc this is my safe space and if i bleed the real world into it too much i never handle it very well but man. im just so devastated by what’s happening in california right now.

[etakeh]

I mean make up your mind.

Do you want us to have a happy 4th of July, or do you want us to not damage police cars?

{Not feeling bad about the "slightly injured" part, considering what they consider major injuries when it comes to cops}

{also loving how when someone throws a firework at a police car, it's a felony, but if when it is thrown at another civilian It's no big deal}

{Please don't burn down anyone's house or start a forest fire though please. Please. Please.}

[bagelboys-withcreamcheese]

anyone want to carpool to Canada? one way trip to New Zealand? jump off a bridge together?

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St. Scene Burns Oregon - 1930's Date Unknown

The Burns Hotel, the white building up the street on the left hand side, was demolished in 1938.

[darlingsunflower]

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[aurosoul]