The Rocket - Paint 2 Acrylic Print

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The Durbin Rocket is one of the rarest steam locomotives in existence. Old #3 is one of only three operating Climax geared logging Climaxs on earth. This 55-ton antique was built in 1910 for the Moore-Keppel Lumber Co. in Randolph County, West Virginia. Today she takes tourists along the Greenbrier River in Northern Pocahontas County.

I am a retired professor at a college in Toronto and taught critical thinking and communications. In the past I also taught literature, creative thinking and problem solving. I've also had the opportunity to teach about and lead tours to a variety of world destinations including backpacking through the Canadian Rockies, traveling above the Arctic Circle in Norway, into the Sahara in Morocco, and throughout Southeast Asia with a special focus on Thailand. It was my four tours to India that formed me most profoundly, both as a person and as a photographer. It is a magic land of extremes in every sense of the word. More recently I had the opportunity to expand my world view with travel to the Peruvian Andes, the back roads of West...