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Wild & Wonderful West Virginia Tour 2015 August 8–10
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| Meeting at the Churchville pick-up point |
The entrance to
the observatory in Green Bank |
The special Porsche parking area
on the lawn in front of the Green Bank Science Center |
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| The NRAO has the only diesel Checkers in the world |
The Green Bank Telescope from two miles away |
The Cass Scenic Railroad |
The Shay locomotive has three steam cylinders
powering a long crankshaft |
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| Each wheel is gear driven
from the crankshaft |
The locomotive needs a lot of lubrication |
The Cass company store |
Conductor Sherry handed out the tickets
to our private car |
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| The Porsche car |
Janet Matthews shooting her Canon |
Pam and Katie Sullivan |
Chip Williams and
Karen Knapp |
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| Blue Ridge members Dave Hogan,
Gary Templeton, Pete Kauffman, & Donna Templeton |
Marty & Mark Doherty |
An old crane car beside the tracks |
The old steam/belt-driven machine shop |
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| Another operating locomotive |
and a defunct locomotive |
Conductor Sherry counting the lunches |
After a switchback, the locomotive pulled
instead of pushed |
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| Iron horses spook real horses |
Miles and miles of trees |
The Porsche lunch at Whittaker Station |
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| The steam winch and fire tower at Whittaker Station |
Blowing off steam |
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Jerry Hampton photographing his grandchildren |
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| On the way down the mountain |
The Porsche private car
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Beverly McNeill, Chip Williams,
and Karen Knapp |
Snowshoe |
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| Dinner at The Junction restaurant |
Sunset |
Porsches at the Greenbrier |
Inside, the Greenbrier |
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| is brightly colored
and elegant. |
The bunker door
was hidden by a fake wall, and the bunker is buried behind
this brick wall |
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| A fancy gazebo near the Old White golf course
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We ate at Sam Snead's at the Golf Club,
overlooking the Old White golf course |
Some of us were seduced by the ice cream
made at the Greenbrier |
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