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The Gunks and SkyTop at sunset. #mountainmonday #landscape #photography #newyork
Dark mountain ridge in shadows with Skytop tower in silhouette. The early evening sky has clouds reflecting reds, orange and yellows.
September 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
midnightdorifto.bsky.social
this post sent me down a rabbit hole but here’s what you need to know:

1. one of the observation parlors from the Hiawatha Line - the Cedar Rapids - has been restored to operating condition
2. you can rent it for stuff

261.com/cedar-rapids/
Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Line “Cedar Rapids” Skytop Observation Parlor Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Line “Cedar Rapids” Skytop Observation Parlor Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Line “Cedar Rapids” Skytop Observation Parlor Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Line “Cedar Rapids” Skytop Observation Parlor
February 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
Mysterious Skytop. #photography #blackandwhite #landscape #newpaltz #hudsonvalley #mohonk
February 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
hhs761.bsky.social
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24.
Trailhead (1 mi. hike);
41.1872186, -74.8850099
#pennsylvania #waterfalls #photography #waterfallphotography
#longexposure #chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography #hiking
#outdoors #explore #nature
#travelphotography
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24. Trailhead (1 mi. hike); 41.1872186, -74.8850099
September 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
2 views of the sky and the Gunks at dusk this last Wednesday eve.
#scape #photography #skyscape #landscape #eastcoastkin #newpaltz @mohonkpreserve.bsky.social
Wide angle shot of the mountains with a moody partly cloudy sky at night. Zoomed in shot of the mountains with a moody partly cloudy sky at Dusk. View of Skytop Tower
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
3 different views of the same spot. #mountainmonday #landscape #photography #eastcoastkin
Autumn morning view of the Gunks and Skytop from the Testimonial Gate area of the Mohonk Preserve. Close up of the Gunks, the white rock and Skytop. Skytop from a different angle with a cloudy sky.
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
Skytop @mohonkpreserve.bsky.social #landscape #photography #newpaltz #hudsonvalley #gunks
January 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
harkov311.bsky.social
RETVRN
July 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
hhs761.bsky.social
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24.
Trailhead (1 mi. hike)
41.1872186, -74.8850099
#pennsylvania
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#outdoors
#explore
#nature
#travel
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24. Trailhead (1 mi. hike) 41.1872186, -74.8850099
February 4, 2026 at 10:35 AM
hhs761.bsky.social
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24.
Trailhead (1 mi. hike);
41.1872186, -74.8850099
#pennsylvania #waterfalls #photography #waterfallphotography
#longexposure #chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography #hiking
#outdoors #explore #nature
#travelphotography
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24. Trailhead (1 mi. hike); 41.1872186, -74.8850099
April 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
View of the Gunks and Skytop
#thicktrunktuesday #photography #landscape #bokeh #hudsonvalley
On the right close by is an old tree trunk. on the left, and out of focus, are the Shawangunk Mtns and Skytop tower.
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ckape.bsky.social
We can rebuild them, we have the technology
The salvaged observation ends from two Skytop railroad passenger cars. They are made up of many oddly shaped windows in three tiers that allow the end to be rounded vertically and horizontally.
May 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
alanthefisher.bsky.social
I will never shut up about the Milwaukee Road, easily the coolest midwest/western railroads to have existed in the US.

Like the Skytop Lounges alone made the Hiawatha's incredible
November 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
jan3ep.bsky.social
Sky Top
#photography #tower #SkyTop ##Mohonk #hiking #history
June 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
adamnsmith.bsky.social
So nice… I had a chance to see one last year in Saint Paul
Photo of the exterior of a Hiawatha skytop lounge car at Saint Paul train days Photo of a child standing in the interior of a skytop lounge car View from the interior of a skytop lounge. A model of the car sits near the window; the Robert Street bridge is visible out the window View out the windows in the ceiling of a skytop lounge car
December 1, 2024 at 10:10 PM
interurbanera.bsky.social
Apparently two Milwaukee road skytop lounges were put onto a carfloat as part of a restaurant concept someone did. It (predictably) went out of business, the boat being scrapped, and the cars chopped in half. The bodies are are at a museum in Minnesota.
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
hhs761.bsky.social
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24.
Trailhead (1 mi. hike);
41.1872186, -74.8850099
#pennsylvania
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#outdoors
#nature
#travelphotography
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ckape.bsky.social
Has anyone ever made a skytop eggliner?
An eggliner, a short oval model train vehicle made of two observation passenger car ends stuck together. It is painted with a Santa Fe warbonnet paint scheme. A skytop lounge passenger car. It has an observation end that is rounded horizontally and vertically, with many panes of glass. It is painted in Milwaukee Road's orange and maroon scheme with high rise buildings behind it.
June 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
Last #februarty post of the day. Big and Small in reverse. The barren tree is big and Skytop is small. In reality the reverse is true. Perspective. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz NY #big&small #photography #landscapephotography #nature
February 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
"upstate" NY is underrated. The Hudson Valley is not upstate except from NYC and LonGuyland but it's a beautiful area. Looking northwest from Storm King Mountain towards the Shawangunks and Skytop at Mohonk #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #art #landscape #upstate #hudsonvalley #mountains #nature
February 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
#blueskymonday #blue #mountainmonday #photography #photohour
Early morning Mountain View. The bottom of the photo has green and brown grass. There are a few trees with fall colored leaves. The middle of the photo shows the peak by SkyTop. The sky has some lower clouds with blue sky above
June 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
torailwaymuseum.bsky.social
She sank carrying two ex-Milwaukee Road "Skytop" observation cars that were bought by CN and briefly used in Montreal-Toronto service. The ferry was refloated and later scrapped in 2009. The surviving car shells went to the Milwaukee Road Heritage Center in Minnesota. 3/3
The partially submerged ends of the two former Milwaukee Road "Skytop" observation cars on the sunken car ferry Lansdowne at Erie, Pennsylvania on December 26, 2005. Photo by Jeff Thoreson, Shipspotting.com.
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
dergbelly.bsky.social
really want art of my sona filling up the milwaukee road skytop lounge car
July 30, 2026 at 5:58 AM
hhs761.bsky.social
Lower Indian Ladder Falls (25 ft.) on Hornbeck Creek, Skytop, PA. 4/30/24.
Trailhead:
41.1872186, -74.8850099
#pennsylvania
#waterfalls
#photography
#waterfallphotography
#longexposure
#chasingwaterfalls
#landscapephotography
#hiking
#outdoors
#explore
#nature
#travelphotography
July 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
plainnjames.bsky.social
Trip in the Skytop Lounge car with @maxlies.bsky.social would fix me
January 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM