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Medicine Bow Wyoming. A few spots to switch lead up to the station and across the Lincoln highway (still used today in a lot of Wyoming) is the stately and ornate Virginian Hotel with Victorian decor inside. It was named for the book "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains," a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister (1860-1938), set in Wyoming. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels.
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 12:02 PM•Views: 69
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The tiny local bar, "The Diplodocus" named after a very large dinosaur discovered July 4, 1899 in Sheep Creek Quarry D, near Medicine Bow. This part of Wyoming is a prime location of dinosaur bone finds in the US.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2020 10:43 AM•Views: 90
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The Virginian Hotel across the Lincoln Highway from the Medicine Bow depot with a freight room on the west end.
Medicine Bow got its name because in fur trapper days (early 1800's) friendly tribes would assemble here and construct weapon bows, and powwow about cures of diseases. That medical knowledge was shared in hybrid speech between the Indians and early settlers.
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 12:03 PM•Views: 80
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Concerning medicine and doctors: All of my grandparents homesteaded in SE Colorado in 1917. My dad's parents came up from Oklahoma to escape a typhoid epidemic. Dad was born, on the homestead just weeks after his dad filed on it, and he was delivered by his father in 1917.
My mom told of the time my dad as a baby was fussing and crying. An Indian woman asked what was wrong with him, and grandma said, "He's been fussing all day. The woman looked at him and pulled off his wet diaper, wrapped it around one finger and swabbed out his mouth. "Do that (so many) times a day she told his mother.
He had trench mouth, and there were no doctors within easily 100 miles. Actually, he said the first time he ever was treated by a doctor was when he was 28.
That was doctoring in the frontier days.
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 12:05 PM•Views: 77
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Looking back west from Medicine Bow to Hanna beyond the Lincoln Highway overpass.
The old Lincoln Highway mostly followed the UP tracks which still mainly follows the original 1860's Transcontinental Railroad route from Council Bluffs to the Bay area. I am amazed that this route, found in the 1860's, is still the preferred route over the great majority of its length. US 30 followed it in 1912 on, and I-80 follows them both today, except for "shortcuts" up grades too steep for trains. And those latter day roads were built and improved in our modern age of airplane and satellite surveying!
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 12:08 PM•Views: 81
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This crossover was added to the layout, so west bound passenger trains could change tracks and go around slower freights.
I think both buildings were drawn on AutoCad in 3D and printed on Lenny's 3D printer. I don't know who should get the most credit. Lenny is quite proficient at AutoCad and has tuned his 3D printer for very good performance, but he has taught Allen AutoCad (a daunting program) and helped him get on the printer. Kudos to both.
There are many other 3D printed objects drawn and produced by them, originally just Lenny, but now both are hard at it.
Capture Date: Jun 5, 2020 12:13 PM•Views: 74
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Old Diplodocus Tavern, The Virginian Hotel, and the Medicine Bow station, looking east along UP mains and old Highway US 30.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2020 10:48 AM•Views: 70
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