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September 1st, 2008

Angie

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Painted model of Great Eastern (1858) Photo Mugs

Scale 1 44. A painted model of the Great Eastern made entirely in wood with metal fittings. The hull has been carved from wood and painted pink below the waterline, and black, with a broad brick red stripe, above the waterline. A copper stripe runs the entire length of the hull approximately at deck level and two decks are indicated by two rows of painted portholes. Two iron stocked anchors are ri…

Painted model of Great Eastern (1858) Photo Mugs

Scale 1 44. A painted model of the Great Eastern made entirely in wood with metal fittings. The hull has been carved from wood and painted pink below the waterline, and black, with a broad brick red stripe, above the waterline. A copper stripe runs the entire length of the hull approximately at deck level and two decks are indicated by two rows of painted portholes. Two iron stocked anchors are ri…

Painted model of Great Eastern (1858) Photo Mugs

Scale 1 44. A painted model of the Great Eastern made entirely in wood with metal fittings. The hull has been carved from wood and painted pink below the waterline, and black, with a broad brick red stripe, above the waterline. A copper stripe runs the entire length of the hull approximately at deck level and two decks are indicated by two rows of painted portholes. Two iron stocked anchors are ri…

Copper Bronze Finish Carved Leaf and Vine Table Lamp

$79.99

Carved detail is shown in relief on the base of this table lamp. The cast resin base and finial features a copper bronze finish with antique gold accents. A matte black stand completes the look. The beige linen shade has a unique, cut-corners rectangular shape….

29 Hand Carved Slate and Hammered Copper Indoor/Outdoor Table Lamp

$299.99

Slate and Copper Table Lamp Item #26307 Indoor/outdoor lamp features real hand carved slate with hammered copper details Due to the natural material being used each piece will vary in appearance Rectangular bell shade features a brushed sueded, weather resistant textile Wattage: 100W UL/CUL/CSA approved Overall dimensions: 29″H Shade dimensions: 11″H x 17″W x 12″D at widest part Material(s): cast …

29 Hand Carved Slate and Hammered Copper Indoor/Outdoor Accent Table Lamp

$284.99

Contemporary Slate Table Lamp Item #26322-1 Indoor/outdoor lamp features real hand carved slate with hammered copper details Due to the natural material being used each piece will vary in appearance Rectangular bell shade features a brushed sueded, weather resistant textile Wattage: 100W UL/CUL/CSA approved Overall dimensions: 29″H Shade dimensions: 12″H x 17″W x 12″D at widest part Material(s): c…

Alaskan Glacial Mud Facial Masks

FORMULA: Made with the most mineral-rich and pure glacial clay in the world, sustainably hand-carved from the remote waters of the Copper River Delta in Alaska and enriched with a special combination of certified organic and wildcrafted botanical extracts from the Pacific Northwest that are chosen for their moisturizing, skin-softening, anti-aging and immunoprotective properties. BENEFITS: Our gla…

Alaska Glacial Mud Company Glacial Facial Purifying Mineral Mud Masque – Relaxing VANILLA-LAVENDER

GLACIAL FACIAL PURIFYING MINERAL MUD MASQUE Available in unscented, lavender-peppermint and vanilla-lavender (made with essential oils).FORMULA: Made with the most mineral-rich and pure glacial clay in the world, sustainably hand-carved from the remote waters of the Copper River Delta in Alaska and enriched with a special combination of certified organic and wildcrafted botanical extracts from the…

Wood Cane With Mocha Acrylic Contour Handle Right OLD NO. 12260R Black Stain Non-slip grip

$76.00

Wood Cane With Mocha Acrylic Contour Handle Right OLD NO. 12260R Black Stain Non-slip grip….

Jeweled Cross Keychain 4 Assorted Pewter Ing Assorted Styles 1-3/4 X 1/4 X 2-1/2 Set Of 8

$52.99

Product Summary: Casa Cristina….

Thanks to Copper Canyon in Mexico aboard the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad

I

The streets of Chihuahua looked black, slabs of movement without unimpededly the van at 0530 and then slipped on the station, not a single automobile encountered during the trip memory Hotel San Francisco. Founded 1709 by the Spaniards and taking the Indian word for "dry and sandy" as its name, the city of Chihuahua, situated on a desert plain 4,667 feet, is the capital of Chihuahua, the largest state of Mexico, an area of 150,000 square miles. A city cowboy, it is characterized by the Franciscan Cathedral its main square, Pancho Villa home, the citizens of cowboy hat wearing, and shops displaying endless rows of cowboy boots. The state itself the topography is distinguished by Brown, vegetationless training, is the largest producer of apples, nuts, cotton and jalapeno, and is common in timber production and livestock. An agrarian Mennonite community produced its own indigenous type of cheese.

Ahead, and beyond the fence, appeared the two locomotives and four cars including the daily al enlightened western Chihuahua Pacifico railway, operating the train 74, rocked by one of three runs as he prepared for his departure yet from the night Copper Canyon and, finally, to its terminus in the Pacific coast, in Los Mochis. I just want to travel halfway today, Posada Barrancas.

The small, wood-terminal twin bed, sporting little more than two-teller'tequillas "In Spanish, was almost as devoid of life, save for the agent behind the barred window and three other luggage up teeth, travelers still asleep.

Fifteen minutes before his departure 0600, the door of the platform was opened and the handful of passengers exited through She reimpacted by the cold, dark morning and met by the conductor, who said seat numbers of passengers. The first two cars, configured thick with 68 seats, reclining in a stream of four, two to two-year, arrangement and alternatively covered with red-green or dull gray, presented door baggage car length overall, glass, coated with blinds, and back, men and women's restroom. The car duly informed, soothing the early morning, partially opened eyes, greeted me with a warm heater generated as evidenced by the constant hum sound before boarding.

longed reaction, the coupling hooked the car fled, produced a shock initial chain launched the movement. Creeping through the streets past dark and still empty, the train jumped the rails on money that is spent in the suburbs Chihuahua, apparently escaped day before you even get himself.

In operating the proposed rail link along between the fertile plains of Chihuahua and the western coast of Mexico to transport goods to the port of Topolobambo for transfer to sea routes, the Chihuahua al Pacifico railroad tracks its origins to Albert Kinsey Owens, an engineer of American railroads, who moved to Mexico in 1861 and designed Chihuahua-Topolobambo connection. Training a Mexican-American company two years later for the design, he was awarded a contract by the Mexican government to build a rail line between Piedras Negras and Topolobambo that would eventually spur lines to offer Mazatlan, Alamos, and Ojinaga. However, ultimately unable to provide adequate funding for the project, Owens was sold to Foster Higgins, which the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific Railway Company operated over the 1898-completed 259-km section between Ciudad Juarez and Casas Grandes. Insurmountable obstacles also excluded from its most extended.

Project Next was adopted by Enrique Creel, who has operated in Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, which was able to continue to Casas Grandes connect to La Junta, after four years of additional work, 1910-1914. But the attacks thwarted revolutionary completion of next sector, as Ojinaga to Creel.

In 1900, Topolobambo was linked to El Fuerte by several railway companies in Mexico and the United States, but the road entirely imagined, from Chihuahua to Ojinaga, remained elusive until 1927, when the Mexican government itself, which filled the area Creel began. was the remaining stretch of 260 kilometers inside the canyon with topographic obstacles and elevation changes 7000 feet would require high technical prowess to overcome. nationalizing the independent railway undertakings that operate on each end line not yet connected in 1940, the Mexican government has announced 13 years later, in 1953, the program is completed.

The construction project originally five years, beginning with the work Owens in 1863, ultimately took almost 90 years and $ 90 million to finish the last track is not expected before 1961. The project, which have experienced failed attempts to multiply by several companies, the cost overruns so far proportions unimaginable, technical failures, the Mexican Revolution and the First World War, eventually triumphed with a rail link between the city level Seas of Los Mochis and the high altitude capital of Chihuahua through the rugged, inhospitable terrain of a series of canyons Sierra Madre West, located across from the tracks that thread their way through 86 tunnels and over 37 bridges, three times crossed the dividing line, and were subjected to a change altitude of 8000 feet in the process.

Dawn encroached on the black night as a colorless metamorphosis, gradually revealing the color opaque cloud cover.

The Chihuahua surrendered to the rich suburbs, foothills chocolate and gold, hay, straw, as more and more to the right rails.

Reduce speed, the Chihuahua al Pacifico railroad ceased momentum Cuauhtemoc, now 132 miles from its origin. Known the origin of San Antonio Arenales, the village, later adopting the current name after the Aztec emperor, traces its origins to the arrival Railway in 1900, but has experienced significant growth in some 21 years later, when Mennonite community settled there.

The revival of movement, the train rolled through fields of wheat gold, which extended from each side to the foothills of the mountains of the Sierra Madre. First indication of the topography had been glimpsed ahead. The sky blue now famous, kept a few courses of white cotton.

I went in the dining car for breakfast, my first meal back on track. Located just behind the locomotive, it offered a forward galley, four, four cabins seats, a glass divider, two cabins with two places to the left and a C-shaped lamps, inward-looking sofa with a table on the right is a Divider second glass, and four others, the four-seater cabins. Brass attached to the sides of cars hanging above each table. Seats alternated between red upholstery or dark green.

A standard, a two-page menu featuring breakfast bought, lunch and dinner items. My breakfast included a specific ham and cheese omelette, fried potatoes with peppers and onions, refried beans with grated cheese, and tortillas and salsa.

Departure the valley and apple orchards everywhere, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway passed over the Continental Divide for the first of what would become three times and briefly arrested in La Junta, site of the rotunda of the railway, now at an altitude 6775 meters. Upon departure, he began his climb gradually, leaving the plains of Chihuahua.

In 1030, after having traveled some 200 kilometers, the train winds through 74 forest Sierra Madrean oak-pine as he climbed through 7,000 feet. San Juanito, Chihuahua 265 kilometers and an altitude of 8000 feet, was the coldest of the Community of Mexico, although the sun shone now unobstructedly. Founded in 1906, he, like many villages along the road, took root as a result of the expansion path iron.

At milepost 551, the peaks of Sierra Madre Occidental rose to come.

Plunging through tunnel 4, 4134.8 meters the longest line and the location of the third crossing of the Continental Divide, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway emerged towards double branching, winding movement while a freight train heading east past the left before supporting part in the tunnel and re-line secondary for his approach in 7735-foot Creel. Founded in 1907, during the first stage of the construction of the railway, it is the gateway to the Indian culture and Tarahumara as a principle of community in the canyon itself, is inhabited by about 5,000 people. Its current economic activity including trade, railways itself, the timber industry, and tourism. A short stop allowed a large group of tourists on the tag name to board the other cars vacuum before the train almost instantly regained momentum and moved from the main square of the city and the line of wooden shops and houses. Redirecting itself off the branch, he joined the main route for his journey canyon-penetrating.

As the thread of the chain of four of its cars so if rock and pine, diesel engines Ferromex published ahead and to the left or right of the window as they negotiated the turns. Going up the culmination of the 583 kilometer line, 8071 feet of Los Ojitos, Train 74 followed by the liquidation, increasing, single track, fire pine breaths of fresh air and smoldering enter both ends of the car at the stations of the conductor.

In 1235, the train was traveling at large, dense pine and the vast carpet of the throat becomes visible through the windows to the left moving through milepost 592, it veered tightened down on "el lazo" that the geometry of the track loop in a complete circle and ironed itself.

Approach to Divisadero 1320, now 354 km from its origin, the two-locomotive and four cars Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad transition from the mountains to the topography of the canyon and decrease speed, passing a string of cars platform support vehicles, and stopped the movement at the station in two ways. Unleashed stopover for 15 minutes picturesque its customers were instantly engulfed in a hotbed of activity as they negotiated the stalls which served as the temporary display of Tarahumara Indian basketry and wood carvings on the road to Divisadero Overlook, where they were welcomed with a thin, crisp air and the panoramic Copper, Urique, and Canyons Tararecua whose size, depth and size are awesome and the silence of promotion. A thin line, which is a tributary of the River Uric winding 4135 feet below. The geological formations were themselves the result of tectonic plates move about 90 million years a global phenomenon which later produced the mountains of North and South America. Earthquakes of magnitude unimaginable until then ultimately product of the Sea of Cortez between Baja California and mainland Mexico. canyons of today have been deeper, greener, and four times more larger than the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

A whistle of the locomotive that it was time to return to the train for onward journey. The Quick, trek four miles from the station Posada Barrancas, who served three pavilions canyon brought me to my destination overnight, the small pick-up only waiting feet, steps of the rail car. After only a 30 second break, the train resumed its cars and power leakage disappeared as it moved between the rock faces and being sandwiched rounded the curve line of everyday life of the site is now broken for another 24 hours. The truck made its way up the hill of earth with the luggage on his plate, stopped at Posada Barrancas Mirador Hotel.

A three-story orange Adobe Lodge built on the edge of Copper Canyon, 5770 feet deep, he recommended wood frame balconies Tarahumara Indian rustic style and included three meals a day. Hall entrance, decorated with a tiled floor and yellow-brown adobe walls with an Indian border the grounds, presented a cathedral ceiling slats and thick tree trunk beams with three chandeliers Wagon Wheel-like, a huge fireplace with a mantle Adobe pottery decorated, and a crackling fire during evenings and leather sofas and armchairs. A small separate bar featuring small, round tables, wooden chairs, colorful Indian motif, fireplace Adobe orange, and a painting, wall-length mural of Copper Canyon and the railroad running through. A large, outdoor balcony overlooking a canyon, flanked by a branch and trunk-natural border was consulted by the lobby door.

A tiling, exterior walkway leads past crevices of pottery, rocks and cactus on the right and the doors of the hall on the left. The rooms, in the quintessential Mexican style and India, has retained the tile floors of the hotel Featured and rough white adobe walls, exposed beams, small homes with white bases Adobe orange; separate, outside sinks and wood cabinets whose doors were made of tree branches in diagonal patterns inside tiled shower and a tree trunk rustic and balconies overlooking the canyon branch.

Lunch was served in the dining room, which contained long wooden tables, and feature a ceiling downward-angled branches made of thin wood, four wooden candle holders, fireplace with slate green, and from floor to ceiling windows overlooking the canyon, including cream of mushroom soup, grilled beef tenderloin, baked potatoes, beans and cheese, nachos with melted cheese and tomato sauce, tortillas and salsa, pie the peach cream with a graham cracker crust and drizzle with chocolate sauce and coffee.

The few bits of clouds caressing the horizon brush west over the walls of the canyon carved stone temporarily turned into shades of pink and purple. The air, thin, pure and bright, tranquility exuded. Far from a settlement or city of any appreciable size, the hotel overlooking Adobe orange rim has become a world unto itself isolated.

Dinner, the second meal in the canyon, including lentil soup, grilled chicken, rice with lime green olives and mixed vegetables, and cake pineapple.

The canyon, now devoid of light, has been reduced to a black hole referenceless. The grid of stars, released by a single cloud of steam, pollution caused by fog or light background, entered the night sky as beams of high intensity fusion in black wax. The cold, thin air is heavy with the aroma of burning wood in fireplaces in the Adobe Lodge. yielding to sleep, I fell into the vacuum of oblivion …

II

Drilled by the sounds of howling coyotes regularly, night had remained invisible black. In 0630 between Copper Canyon and a bunch of black clouds, the dawn was spreading day and orange lava melt through a ribbon to the eastern horizon, has gradually encroach until the cloud band of a black became once infused with hints of orange, like a sponge absorbing gradually liquid day. Cracks and undulations of the cliffs of the canyon, but indistinguishable, became visible in silhouette in the sky deep blue light night, the abundance of interstellar star, had disappeared until a planet represents identify light remained diagonal the lodge balcony. Absorbing the full fury of the day, the cloud band hovering over the horizon has sunk into the red flame fire.

Train Daily westward, which would take half the distance to its terminus in Los Mochis, Chihuahua had shot.

The clouds, now fully by fire, have been completely engulfed by the red. As the flame itself burned, the red once again grew at a cooler orange and the sky turns into a baby blue morning. The gray granite rocks carved in the canyon and the green of its low-lying vegetation became differentiated.

Breakfast, served in the dining room of the hotel, included orange juice, a basket of fresh fruit in watermelon, papaya, melon, banana, cherry, and limes; pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon and coffee.

By late morning, the lodge seems suspended by his silence and his hosts, temporarily absent, was involved in hiking and horseback riding excursions, almost in expectation train per day Chihuahua lifeline for isolated canyon community. A very small woman wearing colorful Tarahumara, with a baby cradled in a fabric sling behind his back, a look in the dressing room window, in the curiosity of the "other" life lived here.

Suspension of silence, time, and the company was abruptly broken in 1330 that the locomotive diesel black green and red Ferromex, sprouting gray smoke and drawing his chain of five cars, appeared between the bushes on the single track, following the curve to the right and stopping at the "Old West" like the wooden platform on which about 20 people, after having emerged from Posada Barrancas, three pavilions, meeting. Contrary to training yesterday Today consisted of a locomotive, the dining cars and standard bar, and three cars. Calling on board with the rest baggage, the passenger, I reached my seat along the left engine had published his brakes and the train had slid to the west between the two sides of the rock on the other side of the road.

Only moments after leaving the station, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad followed by multiplying the slopes in San Rafael and stopped alongside the train to the east. A gradual descent from 7,500 feet to sea level, is characterize most of the remaining distance.

Lunch, served in the dining car, including a wand California ham, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato onion, mayonnaise and Dijon mustard on French bread with crispy French fries.

Rounded to the left corner, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway deep in a tunnel and 695.4 feet on the bridge Laja, the tracks now nestled in a canyon Pine Tree rich. In 1515, he was shot in 5300 Bahuichivo meter station, which serves the city of Cerocahui, located 16 km through the orchards of apple and peach trees, and the village of Urique, which is the bottom of the canyon. Between km 688 and 708, the train drilled through a series of 16 tunnels dug into the edge of the canyon. The runway, parallel to the hail, rocky, almost dry Septentrion River below, was himself "miniaturized" by woodpeckers carpet Chihuahua pine, Douglas fir, aspen and it dominates. The sky, abundant with majestic, floating islands Silver Cloud, was also a famous blue.

Reduced to a railroad, but the model, link chains of six moved to the middle of a giant, granite and green Alpine peaks topographic oaks and pines, periodically swallowed by a series tunnels, which instantly reduces dark blue day. Imitating the engine turns, curves, and shaking a little delayed rates, cars leak followed with amazing precision. As the train emerged from a tunnel, the tiny round hole in appearance representing the entry in the next always seemed to come.

Tunnel entrance 49, the train, now descend into the canyon, Santa Barbara, executed a 180 degree turn before emerging again and was subjected to one second to turn 180 degrees on the bridge over the River North. The town of Temora, based by the Jesuits in 1677 and situated on a plateau 3,365 feet above the station, was reached by 1610 in the afternoon.

Passing through the canyon Rio North, 74 Train traveled through tropical namely topography, characterized by banana, palm and mango

In 1708 and terminal KP 748, the train crossed the bridge Chinipas 1018.5 feet, 335 feet above the surface appearance Chinipas Green River, was the highest line, and six miles later, drilled through the last number and the longest of the tunnels, 86, was 5966 feet long. As the last sounds of a symphony, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad Canyon Country was released.

As evening approached, the passengers, many of whom belonged to one of two groups travel, gives way to the bar car for wine and cocktails. The car itself, located between the room and the passenger, had been configured with an inward-looking bar with several stools round, mirror shelves for bottles of wine and alcohol, and to glasses suspended. Mainly covered with red, his chairs have been sandwiched by small round tables drinking, while a stand-up bar and a counter for Food Concession salable and souvenirs has been installed at the front of the car.

At kilometer marker 781, the train passed on Agua Caliente Bridge, which spanned the river and Fuerte, at 1637 feet, was longer. Crossing the line low, cactus and scrub land thornforest 1730, he moved with considerable speed in the pale sky blue and dark cloud Nimbus periodic collections feature dusk. horizontal lines of clouds, brush stroking the western horizon, have been devoured by fire orange coals. Hovering just feet above the curve shapes mountains, sun, pure cylindrical geometry, burned with a fury of orange before slipping behind. Settlement rest night, he projected a volcanic eruption of molten lava purple and orange in the sky with its consequences. rippled the river below the bridge rocking the runway appeared lit with a match violet. The cloud formations, temporarily burned by orange, purple metamorphosed as the night smothered the few remnants embers of the day just over the horizon. A quilt of rubies and draped himself over stratonimbus gray day, the cover of darkness suffocating, and leave the hot, bright inside the car as the light remains.

Train 74, now traveling parallel flat scrub desert near in the state of Sinaloa, had left the Copper Canyon and the foothills of the Sierra Madre behind, and would bridge the remaining gap to its final destination in the dark, leaving only the clock "of its wheels against the track sound as proof of its progress.

Walking to the dining car for the last meal on the rails, I ordered a bottle of French white wine and chicken cordon bleu entry with a creamy mushroom sauce, Mexican rice and vegetables mixed.

The town of El Fuerte, reached 1910 was the Spanish colonial architecture and was founded in 1564 by the conqueror Spaniard Francisco de Ibarra for the purpose of building a fort to protect its citizens against Indian attack. Serving a trading post on the Camino Real from three centuries which Spain had connected Guadalahara mule, mines Alamos, and the Sierra Madre Occidental, he had become the capital of Sinaloa state, in 1824.

Reeling on the single track in dark velvet, the diamond sky with stars and moving across the flat expanse of land, the train The remaining 74 seats 82 km between El Fuerte and Los Mochis, the rectangles appear to travel along the sides of his reflections on the windows lit cars on the ground vegetation.

The reflections of the rectangular window of the car were like reflections of the trip: unlike other railways, which provided transportation alternative means to certain destinations, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railroad offered the land line only and the Sierra Madre Occidental and its related canyons. The lifeline for the communities along its path, from Chihuahua to Los Mochis, it offered unique method vital transportation, traveled over 653 km of track whose career could be likened to a great feat of railway engineering; offered and landscapes unparalleled mountain canyon, and connected to Mexico and Tarahumara Indian cultures.

The single track multiplied in number and the train passed a significant business yard. The lights of Los Mochis, the modern city located just 19 kilometers from the port city of Topolobambo stood future. Creeping through the suburbs, the houses that were a few meters from the current track, the Chihuahua al Pacifico Railway passed the modern Estacion Los Mochis at a snail's pace and hung on his brakes for the last time in 2205, completed his 16 hours, 20 minutes from the plains to the Pacific.

Taking my bag from the luggage rack and a few steps down the platform, I watched the uniformed crew extinguish the lights of the train and the file the terminal, after finishing another race to the west, and could not see the vital role they played in the railway to link the Copper Canyon with the rest of Mexico.

Salt can damage the building facing a dust-coated copper lead?

I'm carving blocks of salt using an angle grinder at my school and lots of salt dust is now on the side of the building. This is a very fine powder of pure salt, stones licking, and I do not think it was a big problem because one good rain and most of the salt should disappear, but I was told to remove the salt and stop my work. I was wondering if anyone knows what salt does to a building would lead coated copper face? I mean our cars are covered with salt at this time with the snow and I know that rust steel, but copper-coated lead? I took a hose and removed most of it already, but only the hope of obtaining some information or advice. My next plan is to create an enclosed tent where I can carve away from building. Thank you. Copper is not visible through, I just said by the architect schools he was headed copper panels clothed, and that it can cause pitting?

Pb is soft and easily scratched, exposing Cu. Concentrated salt will not be much problem, but when it rains (or you hose it off), if the salt remains in the water "running on the side of the building, it will set up a galvanic action Nice and corrode the copper. You also have another problem. The salt into the ground where runoff water is puddling, and nothing will kill you here to stay, and you could contaminate groundwater, cause problems with high chlorides in soil and water, etc. Ignorance is a blessing for a while, but it sucks to be you!