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60026 on the 11.25 Arcow Quarry - Pendleton, having run round at Blea Moor. A pity about the exhaust, which hadn't been requested ! 10 January 2025.
I very rarely get the opportunity to catch a shot with the raindrops falling in the photo, usually because when it rains I'm either trying to get back home before I get too wet, protecting my camera or it's way to heavy rain to see and compose a photo, so I think this is a rare photo : )
30 minutes after departing Orlando International Airport, a Miami-bound Brightline train approaches the Cocoa Tunnel under the Beachline Expressway. The train turns south here, joining the FEC mainline for the trip down to South Florida.
Brightline 5733 (Orlando to Miami, FL)
BLFX SCB-40 #102
Cocoa, FL
April 26th, 2024
After some work and switching crews in McAdam, NBSR 6332 is on the move again, seen here at mile 4.3 of the NBSR's Mattawamkeag Sub, approaching St Croix, and the Canada/USA border.
August 25,2016.
On an overcast day in early November, the eastbound Rocky Mountaineer approaches the west portal of Yarmony Tunnel near the east end of the Dotsero Cutoff. The train is making one of its two weekly returns to Denver from Glenwood Springs under cloudy skies.
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C-GWSZ, a Boeing 737-8CT, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving as WJA712 (WestJet Airlines Ltd.) from Vancouver, British Columbia.
It was wearing the special Walt Disney World livery featuring Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice on the tail.
704,844 hauling 1152 loaded Stony from Penrice approaches the former yard at Lyndoch on 20-6-13.
Lyndoch still had a shirt dead end siding up until the line closed
As we approach the election of 2024, something that is on everyone's minds is freedom. As in, what does it mean, and will we still enjoy it after the results of the election are announced. Yale professor Timothy Snyder has written a book on the subject called "On Freedom". I've read it twice this season. It's one of the most important books I've ever read. My entries for this Polaroid Week are based on interpretations of points made in his book.
Snyder posits that there is a difference in conceptions of freedom, one of which is negative freedom, which can be thought of as "freedom from", and positive freedom, or "freedom to". Postive freedom is about enabling free people to live their lives to the fullest, and negative freedom is about preventing anything from preventing you from doing whatever you want. Positive freedom leads to democracy. Negative freedom leads in the opposite direction.
There are five components to positive freedom in Snyder's estimation. The first of these is Sovereignty. Each person is sovereign over their own selves. They are responsible for their own being, their own decisions, their own beliefs. The task of a parent raising a child is to teach them to be a sovereign being, capable of judging right from wrong and living their life in a way that is true to themselves.
My first entry for Polaroid Week represents Sovereignty with a mixed media piece, one of my construction paper people on Polaroid Retinex Type-I film, with a piece of construction paper glued onto the frame so it extends outside the circular frame of the Retinex film.
Snyder's book is available at timothysnyder.org/on-freedom .
This storm brought a wall of large hail and rain drops that hit with such ferocity that I could not hear my car stereo.
A storm approaches Belfort, France, at night. Occasional lightning reveals the features of the cumulonimbus, and in particular, a nice shelf cloud.
Avanti West Coast Pendolino' No. 390130 approaches Atherstone on 16th March 2025, forming service 1S52 0946 London Euston - Glasgow Central. Copyright photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Dragon's Back Trail
Glacier Point,
Old Town Of Lijiang
Yunnan Province, People's Republic Of China
4506 meters above sea level
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(Explore #78 March 06, 2009)
Autumn is fast approaching and every landscape photographer’s blood pressure starts to rise in anticipation of the glorious conditions about to unfold. The season of mists, subtle light and varied natural colour is upon us and the promise of what is to come, gets most photographers trigger finger twitching! For me the best thing about the season of promise is the colour. It is just so subtle and wide ranging across the colour pallet. Now I’m as much a fan of simplicity as most of us are, but I just crave the widest possible colour pallet in an image as I can, the wider the better the photographic fix!
This image was the result of several years of planning. I have, many times, tried to work this location; I have come up with many versions, abstracts, and even processed several, but haven’t really got what I wanted from it. This is up to now the best I have come up with, but I still get the feeling this ‘special location’ will provide me with opportunities for several years to come… (Maybe I just enjoy messing about in streams, hobbling about barefoot, with people walking past me question just how unusual an activity that bloke is up to)…
Seven units leads UP's eastbound MGJNY (Manifest, Grand Junction to North Yard) on the approach to the west portal of Tunnel 1. Interestingly, the train itself is only 29 cars in length, so no doubt most of the units are not powered and are just being moved to Denver.
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Poznan, Poland
Autumn 17
Recently, I find myself looking back into my massive catalog of unseen images and thought I would begin to share them. Enjoy the memories.
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Continuing south from MP 912 with the SCFE Cane 1 chase, I’d pull up to Palmdale, FL for the next photo spot at the small double-tracked wooden trestle by the Fisheating Creek Outpost park grounds. Not long after arriving, #USSC6324 eases its loaded train over the trestle while making a whole lotta noise for the adjacent grade crossing by the park entrance. The engineer has slowed his train down to 25 MPH to pass the “Over L W Timber Switch” .7 miles south at Harrisburg, located at MP 918.70. There, the original Haines City Branch alignment diverges to the east onto the former Moore Haven & Clewiston Railway right-of-way, now part of the SCFE Sebring Subdivision.
As previously mentioned, the trackage between Sebring and Harrisburg was laid down by the Atlantic Coast Line as part of an extension of their Haines City Branch south to Ortona between 1916 and 1918. Palmdale itself hosted a small yard and mixed-use depot—located half a mile north from the trestle framed above—that lasted until Seaboard Coast Line’s tenure of the line… The yard was downsized to its current form as the 3,250 ft “Palmdale” siding while the depot experienced a less favorable fate, disappearing sometime in the late 1980’s—the last known photos of its existence date back to 1982 [available at floridamemory.com].
Coordinates for the depot’s site are at 26.944974, -81.317053. All that remains of the infrastructure there is the depot’s relay box and a small wooden shed, its intended purpose I’m not sure of.
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Palmdale, FL
SCFE Sebring Subdivision
Date: 02/21/2024 | 13:33
ID: SCFE Cane 1
Type: Loaded Cane
Direction: Eastbound
Car Count: 25
1. USSC SD40T-2 #6324
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© Vicente Alonso 2024
Wild dandelions are going to seed as southbound time freight Q693 rolls into Poplar, North Carolina on September 12, 2021.
Alaska Airlines flight makes its final approach into Lihue.
Landing on Kauai is somehow less dramatic than landing on the other islands, such as the Big Island. One is aware, however, that one is landing in paradise.
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad's Consolidation #29 slows her speed as she approaches Haywards Siding at Milepost 45.0, with a short, northbound passenger train. Historically, there was an 875 ft. passing siding here to allow north and southbound trains to pass each other and that siding has been recreated with the reconstruction of the present-day railroad. This location is also a spectacular spot from which to photograph trains as it offers a commanding view of the valley to the east.
This image was captured during a February 2012 photo shoot on Nevada's reconstructed Virginia & Truckee Railroad, which was organized by Lerro Photography.
An empty coal drag led by veteran Rio Grande tunnel motor 5360 is approaching Utah Railway Junction.
"....and it shall come to pass that afore the apocalypse durst descend upon the people of England that there will cometh three harbingers of doom. The first shall be that on a Sunday afternoon in early October the streetlights of Leeds shall appear strangely menacing".
Judging by the look of this one I'd best stock up on tinned food and tea bags.
Ibis flying away from an approaching storm at Lake Martin, near Lafayette, LA. The calm conditions prior to the storm's arrival was very eerie.
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