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Experienced on the Vancouver SkyTrain, British Columbia
SkyTrain is the longest rapid train system in Canada and the longest fully automated driverless system in the world so far.
From the Stirrups and Smiles Rodeo. It's a very fast moving sport. I don't know how they stay on the horse. Maybe some velcro between the saddle on the rider?
A shot taken on a trip down to Cornwall in 2014 which has benefitted from a re-run through contemporary processing software.
First Great Western (FGW) 'Sprinter' unit 150120 catches a bit of afternoon autumnal sun as it accelerates up the incline away from Par with the 1.53pm Plymouth - Penzance local service (2C47).
I do like the way the splendid GWR bracket signal gets silhouetted against the sky from this spot - it still looks classy even with the contemporary H&S accoutrements.
The backdrop is dominated by the industrial building which is part of the Imerys-owned harbour complex. China clay no longer gets shipped from there (that has now been moved to Fowey), but the site is still used for processing.
Since this shot was taken the semaphore signals have been replaced, and the class 150s, while still hanging on down there, are surely on borrowed time. Unit 150210 now operates in the North West under Northern's banner.
I've left this a little on the dark side to make the building more imposing, and to provide a nicer contrast with the glint off the unit. Best viewed full-screen.
Canon EOS 5D MkIII
4th November 2014
Project C.A.R.S. build 831, PC
2160p (downsampling)
-No Photoshop
Camera edit (Ctrl+K) mode,
keybinds can be found in MrRoderick's post on neogaf:
Class 456009, 456011 along with 455871 working 1D25 1124 London Waterloo to Dorking seen accelerating out of Wimbledon station 14/01/21
Hobby Key Information : About the size of a kestrel with long pointed wings, reminiscent of a giant swift. It has a dashing flight and will chase large insects and small birds like swallows and martins. Prey is often caught in its talons and transferred to its beak in flight. Can accelerate rapidly in flight and is capable of high-speed aerial manoeuvres.
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
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Canadian Pacific #2816 accelerates along the Portal sub at East Minot for the 320+ mile run to Glenwood, MN on a glorious 37 degree crystal clear morning in North Dakota. This was easily one of my favorite photos from the entire trip. The experience is difficult to put into words.
Canadian Pacific 2816 is a H-1b 4-6-4 Hudson-type steam locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in December 1930 for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). It is the only non-streamlined H1 Hudson to have survived into preservation.
A P42 has southbound Lincoln Service train 307 to St Louis underway, accelerating past Joliet's UD Tower, which had officially closed just two days before.
The Bangui Wind Mills were built by the NorthWind Power Development Corporation to take its share in reducing the emission of harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) causing global warming and to accelerate the rural electrification of the goverment.
Location: Bangui, Ilocos Norte
Philippines
source:www.waypoints.ph
Big city railroading Montana style. All the grade crossings are behind and the east bound accelerates out of downtown.
The fuel tender was filled in Laurel and is destined to be used with the helpers at Sheridan, WY. The last unit has just been painted in Livingston with a variation of BN's "classic" paint scheme.
At the time, the Sheridan Hotel was the tallest building in Montana.
8-12-89
Formerly known as the town of Grovont, the Mormon Row Historic District is one of the most photographed areas of Grand Teton National Park. Astounding scenery and abandoned buildings define the place, unveiling human history of the park. Majestic Blacktail Butte shelters the former settlement from gusty winds, encouraging you to visit Mormon Row at any season. The open space abundantly covered by sagebrush lets you meet some of the representatives of the local animal kingdom.
Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act aimed at accelerating the settlement of the western territory of the country. It provided that any adult citizen could claim 160 acres of public land. In response, the claimant was obligated to build a dwelling and cultivate the land. After five years, the new dweller owned the plot free and clear.
After waiting behind a 65T (Empty Limestone from Belmont) 721 accelerates through the CPL's at Hurt, with new replacements waiting on the ground.
RUPO accelerates to 25 after clearing the yard limits of Leeds Jct. B&M 327 leads LTEX 6528 and MEC 310 and about 50 cars.
Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I've got to follow another direction.
(R.E.M., Accelerate)
50007 and 50049 growl towards Beattock Summit at Harthope with Pathfinder’s “Grampian Highlander”, 1Z72 0605 Taunton-Aberdeen. The train was running some 25 minutes early at this point having failed to make the planned recess in Beattock loop and I only just reached this spot in time.
An A-B pair of ex-Milwaukee Road E9s accelerate the North Coast Hiawatha past the Kopper's Coke plant in St. Paul on December 16, 1973 - the first year I had a drivers license. The rails to the right and the old Midway Stadium in the background are long gone, but the rails the train is on remain as does the overpass I shot this from.
Five Geeps - B&M 355-339-324-359 with D&H 7324 in the middle - accelerate past the site of the razed New Milford station on the Lackawanna mainline to Scranton with a southbound Guilford train on 28 November 1986.
Kicking up clouds of dust, CECX (Cummins Inc.) Tier-4 "Clean Diesel" Demonstrator #1919 accelerates quickly out of Jasonville, Indiana with an INRD train for interchange with CSX at Terre Haute. Yes, it sounds a little like a bus, albeit a bigger, more powerful one. The locomotive runs with the QSK-95, Cummins' 16-cylinder 4400-hp prime mover.
Set in the final days before the fall of the Egyptian Regime, EDF Marines and Intelligence Agents conduct a raid on a UAPR safehouse in Cairo.
"Watch out for UAPR guards as we turn the corner!" said Agent Bryan over the radio as the convoy rolled through the crowded streets in their EDF pickups. A minute later the sound of AK gunfire and cracking glass rang out as the bullets bounced off their windshield. The agents opened their doors and returned fire quickly eliminating the lone guard. "Shit, everyone move in, move in now, they know we're here!" said Agent Stephen as he accelerated over the sidewalk to avoid the body. "Go, Go, Go!" said Agent Bryan as he ran up to the door with the marines. "Everyone in position? Right." He motioned to the marine across from him to make entry in 3... 2... 1...
The agents hoped to glean critical information on insurgency operations in Cairo and the eventual full UAPR assault on the city. However their efforts proved futile, as the intel recovered showed that the network of UAPR support in the city ran deeper than they thought. Cairo fell to the UAPR just seven days later.
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So this scene has been in the works ever since the Sunset Over The Nile event in the World In Darkness group but I never got to finish it due to school. On summer break now, so I finally got a chance to finish it. Made the trucks first which were kind of inspired by Afghan police trucks that I has seen in recent pictures, then I knew I had to build a scene around them. It turned out a bit bigger than I thought it was going to be because all the filler parts originally intended for the periphery of the scene ended up looking too cool to cut out. XD
After allowing westbound Metra Rock Island District #127 to discharge passengers and clear the platforms at the station stop at New Lenox, Ill., Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 accelerates eastbound for Metra's 47th Street Yard, where the Joliet Rocket trainset will slumber before one additional day of round-trips between Joliet and La Salle Street Station. As they did in 2017 when we visited this location, my sons Mikey (left) and Christopher are again having a Mighty Fine Time recording the nighttime passage of the NKP Berkshire.
Eagle-eyed Flickr viewers will also note the Waxing Crescent moon just ahead of the headlight and Mars light of the 765.
NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 246 sec at f/8, ISO 100
www.rc.au.net/blog/2015/06/26/and-then-the-clouds-came/
© Rodney Campbell
After an eventful four days on the river it was time to get back to civilization. VIA's Sudbury-White River service has at its core always been about connecting the remote communities of northern Ontario. The "flag stop" train allowing passengers to hop on or off just about anywhere in between - and so of course that's what we did - throw a red life jacket on the front of the canoe and wave while #186 eased into Pogamasing beneath the towering rock cuts (view from the top pictured here flic.kr/p/2qxHr8L).
Veteran Budd RDC-4 #6250 leads the way, built way back in 1955 for the Canadian Pacific and is acting as the baggage car for the trip. The RDCs are perfect for this type of service being able to stop quickly and accelerate rapidly, while doing passenger speeds in between. It will be interesting to see how much longer these are in service, but it was a pleasure to be able to both ride and capture them in their element over the course of the trip.
One final aside, the back track here is 100 lb rail from Algoma Steel dating back to 1932. There are a number of these backtracks on the Nemegos and White River Subs that used to house specialized school cars dating back to 1926. Commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Education, the CPR brought the schools on rails to children living in remote areas with students attending classes for five days straight before being given three weeks of homework until the train's rotation returned. Apparently the school cars registered near perfect attendance with students who went on to traditional schools and universities excelling. These were retired in 1967 with over 4,000 students having received their education on the rails by then.
- MP 20 CPKC Nemegos Subdivision.
The Seventeen Arch Bridge is an iconic symbol of Beijing. It sits at the heart of the Summer Palace complex, and connects the eastern shore of Kunming Lake with Nanhu Island. It is another fine example of architecture from the 18th Century Qianlong Period.
The tower in the distance, left of shot, is the Yufeng Pagoda on Jade Spring Hill. Most of China's top political and military leaders, including Xi Jinping, live on villas on its slopes, having long since abandoned the more spartan Central Party Compound near the forbidden city.
The Summer Palace is the best place to explore both the finery of China’s Golden Age and its rapid decay in the 19th Century. The Summer Palace isn’t just one palace, but in fact a vast complex covering more than a square mile, containing more than 3,000 buildings, and the famous Seventeen Hole Bridge as iconic a symbol of Beijing as the Palace of Westminster is of London.
Beijing was booming in the 1700s, with the population growing rapidly and along with it much light industry. Around 1749, the Qianlong Emperor decided to build a palace eight miles from the smoky downtown, on a beautiful site overlooking a lake that was being used for stables, to celebrate the 60th birthday of his mother, Empress Dowager Chongqing. He had the lake dredged and expanded to create what is now Kunming Lake, and the earth excavated to do so was used to raise the height of what is now Longevity Hill. What would become the Summer Palace was still called the Gardens of Clear Ripples.
Designed in the style of the gardens of South China, and drawing on motifs from Chinese mythology, the hill was soon graced by the Great Temple of Gratitude and Longevity, later renamed the Hall of Dispelling Clouds, which was overlooked by the Tower of Buddhist Incense, and graced by other wonderfully named buildings like Hall of Benevolence and Longevity the Hall for Listening to Orioles.
Encapsulating China’s Qianglong Golden age, it also encapsulates its subsequent disastrous decline. While the Qianlong Emperor lavished support on the arts and expanded China’s borders to their greatest ever extent, years of exhausting campaigns weakened the military, while in the Empire’s prosperous core, decadence set in, with endemic corruption, wastefulness at the court and a stagnating civil society. These problems would accelerate after the Qianlong Emperor died in 1799. In the heyday of intercontinental sailing ships, Chinese had already successfully managed direct trading relations with Europe for several centuries by this point, exporting porcelain to Europe and the Americas at scale. So when some arrogantly uncouth emissaries arrived at court in the 1830s from an upstart country named Britain, they were initially dismissed as a particularly unpleasant of self-deluding barbarians.
But a sign of the rotten state of the Chinese Empire as the 19th Century wore on was the increasingly dilapidated state of the Summer Palace. During the Second Opium War, British and French forces sacked and burned the Summer Palace as part of an invasion of Northern China which forced the Qing government to sign a trade treaty on unwelcome terms. The Place was further damaged in 1900, by an alliance of Western and Japanese troops who were putting down the Boxer Rebellion. Yet the Chinese Imperial system which stretched unbroken back to Qin ended in 1912, when Puyi, the last Emperor abdicated. Two years later, the Summer Palace was turned into a public park, and so it has remained ever since, barring a few years after the Communist takeover of 1949, when it briefly housed the Central Party School.
Restoration work has taken place at some pace since the 1980s, and continues to the present day.
This magnificent site can be very crowded, especially if you visit, as I did, on the second day of China’s weeklong early October holiday. More than ten million visitors come here every year, averaging nearly 30,000 per day. You can see why. Despite the crowds, this is one of the world’s great historic sights.
The Summer Palace is a half-hour ride on a new subway line from the city centre. The surrounding are suburbs are wealthy, and house Xi Jinping and most of the party bigwigs – but they don’t take the subway!