slgwv's photos with the keyword: exhibit

Due to a certain dearth of logs ;), old railroad ties were used for constructing cabins in much of the desert West from the latter 19th up into the early 20th century. This example is preserved as an exhibit at Corn Creek Field Station, on the Desert National Wildlife Refuge outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Corn Creek at one point housed the administrative offices for the wildlife area, but they've been moved into Vegas proper. Cost-cutting and all that-- But there's still an interpretive area and a few exhibits. The scruffy looking trees in the background are mesquite.

On display at Ft. Churchill State Park, Nevada, USA. It's on loan from the Churchill County Museum and is said to "reflect early farming in Nevada." This evidently is a Fordson tractor.

On display at Ft. Churchill State Park, Nevada, USA. It's on loan from the Churchill County Museum and is said to "reflect early farming in Nevada." If I'm matching up the descriptions on the sign right, this is a Fairbanks-Morse engine.