#burns oregon

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

Watering Hole Near Burns Oregon 1910

[360nw]

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

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

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.

[ibetittering]

FREAKING OUT THE MUSIC IS BACK I'M SO HAPPY

[aurosoul]

still alive over here

[burnsoregonphotoblog]

Every one of these logs travelled to Harney County, Oregon and the City of Hines where they were processed in the Edward Hines Lumber Company Sawmill.

July 1942: Truckload of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon.

[unteriors]

S Harney Avenue, Burns, Oregon.

[aurosoulart]

I was gonna make a devlog post of this but I don't have the energy 💀 so just enjoy the educational virtual garden vibes. it was nice to sit and spend some time with these guys :,)

[eopederson]

Harney County Republican Partei, Burns, Oregon,

[eopederson2]

Wooden barn, eastern edge of Burns, Oregon, 2020.

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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.

[brecbc123]

[milkweedman]

Made a very scrappy little wind chime out of failed spindles. Some of them were too twisted to spin, some I made before I learnt how to off center the tips correctly, and some I just fucked up while making. It's not very windy today but generally it's super windy here, so I'm lookin forward to hearing them. They're very low and melodic. Also strung up some new lights, swept 8 months of winter debris off the back porch, put up a little tapestry, cleaned off the chairs and table... did another wind chime with the absurd amount of random keys we have which dont go to anything and which just make it really hard to find the right key, altho im having a hard time getting it to sound, so i might need to redo that one.

[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?