Post #80625 by tikijackalope on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 4:40 AM

thejab stated:

I'm a big streamliner and old deisel locomotive nut and the Alco PA is my favorite engine from that era!

Cool! I grew up photographing the twilight of the F-units on the MKT, KCS, GM&O, Rock Island and Santa Fe. Come to think of it, they were about concurrent with the rise and fall of tiki. Here's a Williams, AZ Alco for you:

And if you voyage to Omni Hut, be sure to take a side trip to the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, a place that refreshingly trusts that you won't fall off something and sue them. Here's an E-8 I shot from the platform of a switcher.

Just for you, here are a couple shots of an Alco near the museum property. I'm afraid it has seen better days.

tikibars noted:

I've stayed in the Cave City one several times: only 40 bucks, the wigwams are immaculately maintained, and the guy who owns it is as nice as can be.

Yes he is; we stayed there last year on a googie, tiki, trains and beads (the g/f's passion) vacation. As a matter of fact, the plastic jackalope bank that became the prop for E-postcards to our friends is from the Wigwam's giftshop.

As you can see, the Cave City location is more pastoral than Holbrook. I shot this while enjoying the night noises.

Btw, I recently ran across what I believe are the remains of yet another Wigwam Motel in Lawrence KS.

And back on topic to late night food, here is the afore-mentioned place in Williams, AZ.