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52 Week Photo Challenge
November 2026
45-The Painted Word- Like the book, or not.
I was struck by this vibrant splash of color amid the industrial monochrome of what was once a massive, busy railyard in Ely, NV. Today it is part of the Northern Nevada Railway Museum, one of the finest train museums in the country. But during the railyard’s heyday during the first half of the 20th century, this place bustled with trains hauling ore from the nearby open-pit Kennecott copper mine, which produced a staggering 5 billion tons of the metal, which went into the electrification and industrialization of America from around 1900 to 1970. As for the red sign with the painted “G G,” it stands for Gravel Gate and is part of a rail switch handle. When the sign faces an oncoming train, it is telling the engineer that they’re being switched into the gravel yard, where their copper ore can be offloaded onto ore chutes and trucks for transport to mills for processing and smelting.
46-Side Effect-Like the movie, or not.
A sculpted marble bust of Medusa serves as the base for one of the 336 Roman columns that…
