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Bob Tregilus

Custom Art Framing, a 🧵

Since I'm fully retiring from my semi-retired part-time job (2 - 6hr days/wk) at the end of the month I thought I'd frame several items for myself while I can still get an employee discount.

I invite you to join me for the ride!

This is the chop room where we chop the molding legs to size. I'm chopping in-stock molding. Black looks best with B&W photos & is also inexpensive. 1/12

Color landscape photo showing a narrow white workbench attached to a wall. On the bench are five stacks of cut to length black (between 8-12 inches) molding used to frame picture. In the upper right corner of the bench is a stack of three wood planks the top one has metal knife blades attached to it and a plastic card that reads, "Apex Saw Works, Dull." A sign on the wall reads, "Do not leave molding on the counter! Pit it back in the correct spot or cut it down for a ready made. See sign for length needed for ready mades." Below and somewhat tucked under the bench top is a green colored metal machine that is a foot operated chopper for chopping the forty-five degree angles on the end of the picture frame molding. There's a trashcan to the right under the bench and a white bucket on the left with blocks of wood in it.
#Art#Framing#ArtWork
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Bob Tregilus

Nevada Northern Railway, Ely, Nevada (4/26/2025). These old engines were used to haul copper ore from the Ruth Mine on the west side of Ely to smelters in McGill, northeast of Ely. The trains, railway, & machine shop are fully operational & appear to the visitor as frozen in time from the early 20th century. I stop there every time I pass through town. Visitors can ride trains & be the engineer, but I prefer to roam around the yard & machine shop.

A sepia toned portrait image of the front half of a steam locomotive. The entire front of the image is hazy from steam hanging in the air. A black plume of smoke pours from the smoke stack. The front badge on the locomotive has the number 93 on it. Around the top of the number it says, "Safety First." The headlight is on. A bell is visible behind the smoke stack. A man in overalss and a cowboy hat stand on the cattle guard (left side of the frame, right side of the engine) looking up at the smoke stack. A building of some sort in the back ground is barely visible through the steam on the left side of the image.
#Trains#Steam#Railway
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Bob Tregilus

I love this old gas station. It makes me dream of the day when all gas stations look like this!

(I also like it because I have often romanticized about owning that cliche gas station on a lonely desert road in the middle of nowhere. You've seen it in the movies, the gas station with the old guy in a rocking chair, the '50s style Coke machine, and the big dog you have to step over to go inside.)

A black and white landscape photo of an old badly weather gas station. There is only gravel surrounding the station. The small building is white with horizontal slates on the side. The back of the station is to the right and the front faces left. Our view is toward the left corner of the station. Under the canopy is the pump island with only two skeletons of gas pumps left. An old partially disassembled sedan sits under the canopy closet to the station door. The widows are boarded up. An old weathered flat bed truck is visible on the far right. It points forward toward the left side of the frame. It is very rusty. There are clouds in the sky and various weeds grow around the station.
#Abandoned#Desert#Ruin
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