California to Illinois and all points in between

Official Tumblr account for the Great Northern Railroad. And also some personal stuff. Trains, firearms, trains, funny, nature, hiking, trains, hunting, abandoned places, my life, firearms, and trains.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Lakeside Shack

They say that if you stay in the cabin until the mists reach it, something will slither from the water and knock at the door.

Artist: Bartek Fedyczak TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[porcelain-rob0t]

the european mind cannot comprehend the 48 oz dunkin bucket

[derryderrydown]

Excuse me while I look something up...

1.4 litres????

[politenotice]

[interestingmistakes]

[ralfmaximus]

Child sized

[lamignonette]

[calllynx]

Op turned off reblogs but I MUST

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Goldspan Dragon

Artist: Andrew Mar TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[cupcraft]

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

[aropride]

do u like mine

[cupcraft]

Oh wow.

[cupcraft]

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Zendikar Resurgent

Artist: Chris Rallis TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[tiktaalic]

Arugula is some crap they found on the ground for real

[creepymutelilbugger]

thats because its plance. there are others as well

[thickness-protection-program]

[dampfloks]

Fichtelbergbahn 99 1794-9

[cozi]

when i was 12 i got banned from yahoo answers and when i emailed support to be like “what did i do??” i got a really vague answer that just said “you know what you did” and it still haunts me to this day

[trippingthelight]

When I was 10 I was in a AOL chatroom for kids and we were all making this Homer Simpson face (8^(|) but this one girl Crystal forgot to put the nose in the face so I said “You forgot the nose crystal” and I immediately got booted offline and no one in my family could log on. My Mom talked to someone from AOL and they said I was trying to sell drugs to minors because I said “nose crystal”

[blignick]

[mtg-art-daily]

Arcanis the Omnipotent

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Artist: Justin Sweet

[pangur-and-grim]

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

[pangur-and-grim]

[talking-fox-actual-deactivated2]

How do you feel about Americans?

Americans have one of the highest obesity rates in the world, yet they hold the most Olympic medals. They have a horrible education system, yet eclipse the rest of the world in scientific research. The country is filled with clueless philistines, yet their culture permeates every society, in some way, across the planet. The country is still less than three centuries old, but has spent most of it at war. They are universally hated or feared by nearly every other country on the planet, yet the first to offer help during a disaster. Their people are stubborn and never content with the way things are, and for better or worse, all of them imagine how things could be better. Every American is a bankrupt billionaire, a prince in exile, a grounded astronaut, a disgraced scientist. There are the people who do not settle for who they are, but for what they may become.

The country has her problems. Certainly their government has a lot of blood on its hands. But there is something charming about the people I can’t quite place. Even the delusional leftists or the out of touch neocons. There is a certain magic about the place that you don’t find elsewhere. There are bad parts and bad people, to be sure, but there are just as many good parts and good people. It is a land of extremes. But even the poor aren’t really that poor. Much better to be a homeless American living on the beach than literally freezing to death at a metro station in Moscow.

Sure, Yanks say some stupid things. Sometimes they do stupid things like arm terrorist groups they later go to war with. But sometimes they also say profound things. Sometimes they do profound things like planting their flag, in person, on the moon. I can’t stay mad at them and I can’t help but love them.

[mccarthyites]

Bless u

[viewtifulmarkovich]

Nerd.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

That was profoundly said

[nunyabizni]

I love this

[uncle-beanbag]

America is a melting pot of everyone else. We are everything. 

[lilaccatholic]

I’m literally getting emotional because I can’t remember the last time I saw something this kind about Americans on my dash

[vassaltotheduchess]

Same. As a British ex-pat who has lived in the US for the past 25 years, I find myself with double-vision. Through one lens I can be terribly critical of my adopted country. Through the other I feel the greatest pride and affection. Thanks so much to OP for putting it to words.

[amarretto-cowboy]

I’m a proud American and I approve this message

[junior-theabgshark]

[paranormal-taters]