leaving work on wednesday, i knew i'd be in the truck for a while on thursday, so i figured i'd bring the camera along. enjoy.

these three photos are of local scenery, about 10 miles from my house.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/md1.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/md2.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/md3.jpg

your half asleep ohioian on his 25 mile commute to work.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/me1.jpg

this is about a block from my work.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/md4.jpg

wanted to show off the truck, 1997 dodge ram. 318, 4x4 auto. gutless.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/truck.jpg

i'm in the truck by now, checking things over, making sure i'm ready to go.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/me2.jpg

i had since left the shop, and headed towards the lordstown assembly plant, where they build the cavalier and sunfire. after delivering a generator there, i took the opportunity to snap some photos on my way out. the plant was first placed into operation in 1964, if my history is correct, and has produced the j-body line since its inception in 1982. it also contained a truck and van plant during the 1970s and 1980s. there is also a metal fab plant here which produces parts for other gm plants.

http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/lordstown1.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/lordstown2.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/lordstown3.jpg

i don't know if any of the other gm plants put a finished product out, but lordstown assembly puts out at least one model of what they are building. hence the yellow 2003 cavalier you see by clicking the link below.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/lordstown4.jpg

the next two photos show one of the lots where the finished cars await shipment to the various dealers. in the second photo, you'll see a red 2003 sunfire. the rest are cavaliers.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/cavrow.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/cavrow2.jpg

the next three show another lot, and a few trucks. you'll see some close-ups of the front of the cavaliers, and some side shots of the sunfires.
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/truckload.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/truckload2.jpg
http://robertg.netfirms.com/work/truckload3.jpg

on my way out, i wanted to grab one last photo, so i got a photo of the lordstown complex sign as i was headed northbound on ohio state route 45.

from here, i went to a john deere dealer up near cleveland. we recently sold a deere x595 garden tractor, and had to have it transferred to us from the one area dealer who had one in stock. nice tractor, but i dunno if i could justify the average starting price of 12 thousand. link to the tractor below.

http://products.deere.com/webapp/com...br=LGT&path=HO

overall, it was a fun day, and as i stated in another post, i asked a guy at the gm plant how many cars were produced daily, i was told "approximately 1500 cars per day."

very neat, especially confusing the security guards when i asked where the docks were.

 

Having fun with our new camera, are we?

 

of course

yeah, i had been lacking in photo opportunities, so i decided to take advatnage.



i wanted to get some inside photos badly..... but, was on a tight schedule. and i didn't think i'd be popular with security if i was walking through the plant, taking pictures....


these ones were taken from the safety of the truck..