It’s 2025, a brand new year…also a brand new me. From this point on, I will not be answering any dm requests. If you already follow me, I might answer, but no guarantees on that. I’m not looking for new art. I’m not looking for a girl friend. Picture unrelated.
These two Hudswell Clark worked in Canade at the Vancouver wharves. And they were scraoped in early-mid 70s. Its a shame really, they look pretty cool with knuckle couplers.
Singer Eduard Khil sings a folk song on Soviet state television: “I Am Glad, As I Am Finally Returning Home Again.”
There are no lyrics, but rather a “Tro-lo-loling” that’s quite pleasing to the ears.
In March 1910, the Ohio River rose so high that the steamboat Virginia sailed straight into a flooded cornfield near Willow Grove, West Virginia. In the darkness, the pilot mistook a farmhouse light for a river signal and unknowingly steered the 235-foot sternwheeler far from the river’s true channel.
When the floodwaters receded days later, the Virginia was left stranded nearly half a mile from shore a giant riverboat sitting absurdly among rows of corn. The sight drew thousands of curious visitors. Excursion trains packed with tourists arrived daily, and other steamboats carried passengers just to glimpse the famous “steamboat in a cornfield.”
After months marooned on dry land, the vessel was finally rescued when rising river waters lifted it free in June 1910. The bizarre accident became one of the most enduring legends of American river history, later inspiring John Hartford’s beloved book Steamboat in a Cornfield.