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It was a night of butterflies around and the morning came out from nowhere.
There was no night, nor sleep. Just the moon.
Later, the morning.
And I shook subtly in my own body without visible movement as a pop encounter with the shock.
I had my eyes in the rains of March and my arms in the cold of January. Memories of the north wind ... maybe.
Words of love are not enough.
Best keeping the eyes in the light of May and the hands in the heat of August.
And... giving birth to a smile on 30th February of an year not yet invented ....is the concept of the butterfly.
Today morning came out from nowhere but I knew it would be eternal.
More to show the roundhouse than the engine, this shows the SW1 that was assigned as the roundhouse switcher. It would fit on that turntable along with a typical six-axle, 3000hp "coal motor" - barely.
After the coal train was on its way, Train 74 (Seattle to Kansas City I believe) made a stop at the depot for either paperwork or maybe to add the helpers we were using to the head end. I noticed that we didn't pull the three units we had all the way into the house track, so that could mean that 74 has less than 6900 trailing tons - with all 80' or longer cars in the rear 3800 tons - and the crew will add the helpers to the point. A U30c leads a U28b, so either he has a very short train or helpers will be needed.
Corpoelec anuncia corte eléctrico programado para Valencia y San Diego #10Sep t.co/ClVL6BMA37 #acn (via Twitter twitter.com/AgenciaCN/status/774599203460943874)
After finishing up a day as brakeman on the Crawford helpers, I hung around before I hopped back into the VW for the deadhead (58 miles) back to my home terminal at Alliance. As my engineer heads to the depot to tie up, an eastbound coal train, headed for connection to the KCS at Kansas City, has added helpers just out of town and roars through to begin its climb up Crawford Hill. It has 15 miles to go before it surmounts the 1.55% grade at Belmont. A pooled KCS SD40 adds its muscle, third out in the five units, and if plans are consistent with my experience, that KCS unit will lead the train out of Alliance and eastward, after the first two units are taken off. This is why the train left Alliance on its westbound trip as coal empties with the third unit facing forward. About ten cars behind the last unit, the cars are banging over the diamond with C&NW's line to Casper, Wyoming, gone after my move to Wisconsin when major washouts hit it from the White River that is just beyond the diamond. The BN boxcar on the right is on the transfer tracks with C&NW. The 25mph restriction over the "Cowboy" removed any hope of getting a run at the Hill; even so, the waycar crew would inform the engineer when they clattered over the diamond, often saying "Over the Wooden Axle!" or, in one case for me, "Over Brand X!"
Eastbound 178 awaits departure from the east end of the yard behind an ex-GN SDP40 and an SD45 (1976-6426.)
I wasn't working this day, with my VW almost hidden to the right of the SW1 leading Rock Island's "West Yard" job by Union Station. But I'm positive that a couple years before this shot, during July and August '72, that could have been me up there in the cab of the 535. As a switchman in Harter Yard, the "West Yard" was a regular assignment, and the 535 was one of the switch engine residents of Harter's one-stall enginehouse. Union Station was built in 1931 to relocate the Frisco and Rock Island south of the downtown core, meanwhile elevating the Santa Fe along its east side (the Santa Fe embankment is about a half mile behind me.) The "West Yard" referred to a complex of spurs and sidings that used to lie along the old mainline directly west of downtown. We had to cruise west from Harter on the Memphis-Tucumcari main and through Union Station to gain access to the West Yard and its many industries; this one is returning home on what was the westbound main. How I wish I'd spent an off day committing that complex of [disappearing] American industry to what my friend Frank Tribbey called "documentation." Now as I fly in my Google spaceship over OKC's downtown edges, I'm actually surprised to see there is a U.P. spur into an area on the west side that has a brick yard and a steel fabricating plant...possible remains of what I remember as an all-day project of switching in weeds, broken glass, and broken wood and steel scrap. The last passenger trains to stop at OKC Union were Rock Island's 21 and 22 between Memphis and Tucumcari, while Frisco's sad remains of the "Meteor" (renamed to the "Will Rogers" by that time) had bid farewell only a few months before that, both in 1967.
The Union Station headhouse has been preserved - as a transportation center, no less - but the trainsheds and tracks between the former Rock and former Frisco mains are now devoted to a relocated Interstate 40. If I was standing here now, I'd have a good chance of being flattened by a semi! I still wonder if those guys in the 535's cab are asking each other if that's the dumb kid that worked with us a couple summers ago?
The stop by the roundhouse, to sign the register and officially tie up, produced a few more possibilities to document some of the Alliance Division's local power. The U23c and SD9 lashup is a typical example. The 6154 and, as I recall, the 6148 had to remain in Alliance during the winter season as they had the multi-unit connections to be used on the rotary plow assigned to Alliance. Behind them and the tank cars (for lube oil I'm sure) is that silver metal engine shed that CB&Q added for the first diesels, the "grayback" F-units according to what the senior engineers told me. Way over to the left, sticking up above the cars in the original freight yard, was the second story of the division office, with the white shack that the BN fashioned to be placed on top of the big veranda on the front of the depot and used as the yard office (the old one was at the west end of the yard at ground level - no view there!) And way over in the right margin is the brick building that contained the storehouse and enginemens' crew office. The conductors and brakemen registered at the depot. It was in that office that a bunch of us young engineers, firemen, and student engineers serenaded one of the crew callers with our version of The Four Seasons' "SHERRY...." The crew caller's name was Sherry, of course, and the Four Seasons had nothing to worry about, but the banging on the tables and Terry's perfect bass voice adding the "Sherry Baby!" left an indelible impression on my mind (and ears) from those early days of engine service.
¡Felicidades! Ellos son los cumpleañeros de este sábado #10Sep t.co/Lu8vF8Ntlr #acn (via Twitter twitter.com/AgenciaCN/status/774578346604785664)
My grandfather got this wooden shoe in Brussels in 1917, when he was stationed there during WWI.
For We're Here - Scale.
Put some zing into your 365! Join We're Here!
I walked by the rear of the depot to get the going-away shot as the caboose of the Extra East passed the Soo Line standard outhouse. The Junction to which the sign refers is the west switch to the siding, which also led to the "Brooten Line" that went to Superior, Wisconsin.
Soo Line 742 and 6609, an SD40/SD40-2 duo, rumble by the depot with an Extra East, scattering the local bird population. It's unfortunate timing on my part that the nose is in the shadow, but the time was 1830; the light was golden and the shadows long. All the better to see the white class lights (or only one as the other one may be burnt out), indicating that this wasn't one of the three eastward trains in the timetable at the time. It was dark territory (no signals) with a timetable calling for three second-class trains in each direction, until CTC was reached at Buffalo. Paynesville and Brooten were train order stations west of the one at Buffalo, but Brooten was shown as being open "as needed." It looks like the Griswold flashers were functioning with the stop sign having swiveled into position facing vehicular traffic, instead of being parallel with the roadway in its "default" position. The idea of "default" anything was probably foreign to most everyone in 1980, and I doubt I even paid much attention to this common fixture of railroads in the Upper Midwest.
Credit back to the original photographers :-
1. And the moon had wings... EXPLORE #496 10Sep, 2. The middle of autumn's reflection, 3. Say AAAAhhhh!, 4. Appearence is Fleeting, 5. আশা, 6. Evening, 7. into the sun, 8. Little beauty, 9. Untitled, 10. Macau 澳門, 11. Urban Blue Moon...., 12. happy faces spinning around, 13. uyo
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Domingo, tarde de sol. Y esas cosas que regala Flickr: hace un tiempo, un contacto Flickr, "salvoguille", desliza vivir muy cerca de mi casa, nos dimos cuenta entonces que somos vecinos. Hoy fuimos a tomar fotos a Mataderos, para nosotros barrio muy cercano también.
Actividades tradicionalistas y de folklore en plena ciudad.
Fue inevitable recordar a nuestro amigo en común Eduardo Amorim, a quien tuvimos presente hoy cuando recorrÃamos tanta imagen de tradición, a quien le dedico estas tomas.
Una hermosa tarde!
Mis amigos:
the sunrises aren't like this summer anymore, much more moody and I love them. It is a sure sign autumn is on its way...
Delivered new on 10Sep and here freshly stickered up with "Zootopia 2" special livery, taxiing out for departure to Los Angeles as "Air Canada (ACA) 554".
Come to WPWF Asylum 10SEP at 530pm slt for the official release of the Siren Swimsuit Special volume 3, and get a free photo with Ryoko with every purchase! All proceeds go into WPWF production! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Careers/172/224/33
this month I had the lovley copperhobnob as my tributee. As I went through her photostream the photo below stuck out to me. I have wanted to take a good shot of droplets for ages but never managed so this motivated me again.
My shot was taken in my mother's garden on a misty morning and allthough it is nowhere near as good as Copperhobnob's it is the best I could manage :)
F-14A,CVW-5/VFA-102,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
HH-60H,CVW-5/HSL-51,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F-14A,CVW-5/VFA-102,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F-15J,7AW/204SQ,Japan air self defence force
,10Sep.'96 Air base HYAKURI,JAPAN
,Nikon F90x,AF Nikkor ED300mmF4
F/A-18E,CVW-5/VFA-195,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F/A-18E,CVW-5/VFA-115,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
I wanted a authentic Ethiopian look for the 11:07am GMT assignment and it was the eve of Ethiopian new year too, so I decided to go to the market with my wife.
We stopped to buy some coffee pots for my friends back home in India. This is one of the 5 shots taken within the 1 minute of 11:07am GMT.
F/A-18E,CVW-5/VFA-195,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F/A-18E,CVW-5/VFA-27,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F/A-18F,CVW-5/VFA-102,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G
F/A-18E,CVW-5/VFA-27,U.S.Navy
,10Sep.2011 NAF Atsugi Friendshipday,JAPAN
,Nikon D300,AF-S DX Nikkor ED17-55mmF2.8G