The Illinois Terminal Railroad offered interurban passenger rail service until 1956, using electric locomotives. Most of its track has...

This California sea lion likes hanging around the glass to interact with visitors.  Others in the enclosure cruise by upside down, or do...

Although the City of Saint Louis has done much to deface Yamasaki's beautiful airport terminal , there are some improvements as well....

Another year, another trip up Lake Twentytwo.  This time, a stable snowpack allowed exploring the entire edge of the lake.  The snow was ...

State Route 120 climbs up from Mono Lake (in the upper right) to Tioga Pass , then off to the left to Yosemite National Park.  The pass ...

The retractable roof of Safeco Field looms over the horizon at sunset as Interstate 90 terminates at the I5 in Seattle.  It is not uncomm...

Elemental sulphur removed from Albertan oil awaits export from Kinder Morgan ’s Vancouver Wharves in North Vancouver.  Perhaps 5 million ...

The Intermountain Power Plant is a large 1900MW coal-fired power plant in Delta, Utah , curiously operated by the Los Angeles Departme...

The Deception Pass Dash is held annually in December, a month not known for fine oceangoing weather in Puget Sound.  Indeed, this year i...

The Admiralty Head Light is a stout 1903 lighthouse that overlooks Admiralty Inlet, the main shipping channel between Puget Sound and th...

Vlad Lenin is getting into the holiday spirit with a festive scarf, Santa hat, and an impressive headpiece of Christmas lights. He was...

This is the real deal, from 1945 when the Chemical Warfare Service was busy producing both chemical and conventional weaponry for the US...

Kansas City hosts a train station completely out of proportion to current levels of passenger rail service -- Amtrak runs six trains dail...

There are hardly any World War I memorial structures in the United States , and many are modest civic monuments as compared to those in o...

Arthur Bryant's is the foremost recommendation for barbecue in Kansas City by a number of metrics: Yelp reviews, guidebooks, and Inte...