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I've been able to go catch the LA&L every weekday that I have been on vacation since December 7. I probably have enough photos of em to post a LA&L pic each day for a year. Here is one of the road train as it heads North with 39 cars at Elm Place in Rush, NY, just North of Howletts, on December 12, 2018. The train is usually putting out some pretty good smoke here as it accelerates up to track speed after leaving the Avon area. Barilla Pasta is visible above the last car in the train.
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)
"In physics, acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with time. In one dimension, acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down"
Subway station in Essen, Germany. A little photoshopping to get a nice effect.
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.
33207+33029 accelerate from a signal check at Winwick junction working 5M43 1019 Southall - Carnforth 06/02/25. Pole shot.
NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 28 mm, 246 sec at f/8, ISO 100
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The Hubble constant — the rate at which the Universe is expanding — is one of the fundamental quantities describing our Universe. A group of astronomers from the H0LiCOW collaboration, led by Sherry Suyu, Max Planck professor at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes in space and on the ground to observe five galaxies in order to arrive at an independent measurement of the Hubble constant.
This research was presented in a series of papers to appear in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The new measurement is completely independent of — but in excellent agreement with — other measurements of the Hubble constant in the local Universe that used Cepheid variable stars and supernovae as points of reference [heic1611].
However, the value measured by Suyu and her team, as well as those measured using Cepheids and supernovae, are different from the measurement made by the ESA Planck satellite. But there is an important distinction — Planck measured the Hubble constant for the early Universe by observing the cosmic microwave background.
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I used an intervalometer to capture a photo every second during the launch. At this point Orion had just risen its own length in just over 3 seconds, and with 2.5 million pounds of thrust, it was accelerating fast!
This is a shot of a moving train, the blue local train “1883” (from Kalampaka to Palaeopharsalos) departing from the terminus in late November 2022. The western terminus of the Thessaly railroad line is Kalampaka beneath Meteora, Greece. Kalampaka was a border town or outpost of Greek territory, when the railway network was constructed in the 1880s.
Meteora is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The sandstone rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world herage sites.
With the sun low in the western sky and five BNSF unit throwing up some exhaust as this eastbound Provo-Denver accelerates out of Yarmony, it was time for a nice black and white reflection shot!
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Having been held and rather slow through Aldridge, 88005 Minerva and 68009 Titian get going past Lindrosa Road foot crossing with 4S45 Daventry to Mossend.
Bank Holiday bonus as 69004 accelerates south through Clay Cross with a rake of 20 Hawk ballast wagons on 0720 7m18 Doncaster - Toton
Large logo 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' accelerates through York after being slowed by a signal check while leading 3J51, the 10.00 water cannons trip from York Thrall Europa via Scarborough, Bridlington and Hull.
Noisy!!!
CN 2028 north accelerates hard after slowing to a crawl across the level crossing at South Fairbanks, MN. CN 2010 with southbound train U791 has been holding the main line for about thirty minutes in anticipation of the meet. This was the second northbound that U791 had met on its trip to two harbors, with both opposing trains also being powered by a trio of Dash 8's.
Unbeknownst to me, that very morning a set of recently 'straight air' modified AC44C6M units powered the first loaded taconite train into Two Harbors for that locomotive type. This is the series of power that has now replaced the Dash 8's for ore and taconite hauling on the Iron Range, and will eventually replace all of the older road power working in the region. Within three weeks of my visit, the last trio of Dash 8's in ore service were off of the job, and on to an uncertain future.
Despite my previously disclosed preference for EMD's 645 powered locomotives, it was quite a show to hear both of the hoggers on the trains above swipe their throttles, and hear their FDL power bark accordingly.
In September before the big migration cranes get together for every night on a big swamp in Isosuo-Puurijärvi National Park. They come in smaller or bigger groups. After some hours they start to fly into Puurijärvi bird lake to spend the night. The first cranes again in small groups and then the others in accelerating tempo and size the whole happening climaxing when the sun goes down. That is really fantastic sight.
An SR-71 accelerating in afterburner. An aircraft that cruises at mach 3.15 and has purportedly reached mach 3.5 at over 80,000 feet altitude.
The Pratt & Whitney J58 (company designation JT11D-20) is an American jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft. It was an afterburning turbojet engine with a unique compressor bleed to the afterburner that gave increased thrust at high speeds. Because of the wide speed range of the aircraft, the engine needed two modes of operation to take it from stationary on the ground to 2,000 mph (3,200 km/h) at altitude. It was a conventional afterburning turbojet for take-off and acceleration to Mach 2 and then used permanent compressor bleed[1] to the afterburner above Mach 2. The way the engine worked at cruise led it to be described as "acting like a turboramjet". It produced 34.000pounds of thrust using 9 stage afterburners
Two starting methods were used during the life of the A-12, YF-12 and SR-71 aircraft: an AG330 starter cart with two Buick V8 engines driving a common output shaft, or compressed air driving a small starter adapter. The air-start method superseded the cumbersome "Buicks" when better compressed air supplies became available
The J58 is the only known aircraft engine designed to operate continuously at maximum afterburning at high Mach number cruise.
Note the Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or thrust diamonds, and less commonly Mach disks) in the exhaust stream. These are a formation of standing wave patterns that appear in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet, or scramjet, when it is operated in an atmosphere. The "diamonds" are actually a complex flow field made visible by abrupt changes in local density and pressure as the exhaust passes through a series of standing shock waves and expansion fans. The physicist Ernst Mach was the first to describe a strong shock normal to the direction of fluid flow, the presence of which causes the diamond pattern.
Poznan, Poland
Foggy morning from the later part of the winter/spring.
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Another frame from this iconic New England location.
Amazingly until this spring morning I had never shot a freight train at this very popular and well known spot along the old Boston and Maine Railroad Portland Division mainline. But when I was told by a friend that westbound Pan Am freight POAY was likely to have three matching blue units on Monday morning I decided it was worth driving two hours the wrong direction from home after working all night! And worth it was when they pulled out late morning on a picture perfect early spring day.
Here they are accelerating through CPF 203 leaving double track territory and entering the single iron just a few miles out of their origin at Rigby Yard in South Portland. They are seen crossing a small wood pile trestle over the tidal Nonesuch River as they approach the Winnocks Neck Road crossing. Leading the train are GE C40-8s 7523 and 7518 bracketing EMD SD40M-2 619 that is the last SD45 carbodied unit on the roster originally blt. Apr. 1967 as SP 8892.
Scarborough, Maine
Monday March 22, 2021
Settling the San Luis Valley
Essentially a high-elevation desert guarded on most sides by mountain ranges, the San Luis Valley was inhabited primarily by Ute tribes before the 1600s, with Apache living just over the mountains to the east. Starting in the seventeenth century and accelerating in the eighteenth century, the Spanish began to encroach on the valley’s southern fringes as they moved up the Rio Grande through what is now New Mexico.
The San Luis Valley stood at the very northern edge of the Spanish Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1706 Spanish settlers established Taos in northern New Mexico. From there they began to stretch north, often establishing placitas (villages organized around small plazas) and capillas (small churches) as they went, though conflicts with Native Americans prevented any permanent settlements in the San Luis Valley. In 1821 the valley passed to Mexico after that country won its independence from Spain. The policy of pushing settlement northward continued, but conflicts with Native Americans continued to prevent settlement of the San Luis Valley throughout the 1830s and 1840s.
The San Luis Valley became part of the United States as a result of the annexation of Texas in 1845 and the Mexican-American War of 1846–48. The establishment of a US military presence in the valley began to make permanent settlements possible. In the early 1850s Charles Beaubien, who had acquired the land grant that encompassed much of the valley, began to encourage Hispano families from the Taos Valley in New Mexico to move north and establish colonies in the valley along Rio Culebra. By 1852 placitas had been established in San Luis de Culebra, San Pedro, and Los Fuertes, with more towns following over the next few years. In 1861 these towns became part of the newly created Colorado Territory. By 1867 the San Luis Valley had more than twenty-five placitas and about 6,000 residents.
*History Colorado
The crew of an eastbound at Salida had kindly told us there was a westbound military train coming, so we were hoping it would show in time. Being late it was not worth going into the Arkansas River Canyon or Browns Canyon, so we just sat and waited in the "shadow free flatlands". Fortunately, the four geeps with military train in tow showed before the sun went down. So while we could have used this train hours sooner, we were real happy it roared past before the sun went down, still allowing for a brief chase.
The rumble of EMD 645 prime movers permeates the air as ACWR train 100 labors westbound through the small community of Allen, passing the Dublin's Grove Christian Church.
66088 on the Kingsbury to Humber empty tanks adding to the general gloom of a cold, wet and miserable day! But, as one of my friends on Flickr once told me, "you can only take what's in front of you"!
Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annually.
Ybor City was unique in the American South as a successful town almost entirely populated and owned by immigrants. The neighborhood had features unusual among contemporary communities in the south, most notably its multiethnic and multiracial population and their many mutual aid societies. The cigar industry employed thousands of well-paid workers, helping Tampa grow from an economically depressed village to a bustling city in about 20 years and giving it the nickname "Cigar City".
Ybor City grew and flourished from the 1890s until the Great Depression of the 1930s, when a drop in demand for fine cigars reduced the number of cigar factories and mechanization in the cigar industry greatly reduced employment opportunities in the neighborhood. This process accelerated after World War II, and a steady exodus of residents and businesses continued until large areas of the formerly vibrant neighborhood were virtually abandoned by the late 1970s. Attempts at redevelopment failed until the 1980s, when an influx of artists began a slow process of gentrification. In the 1990s and early 2000s, a portion of the original neighborhood around 7th Avenue developed into a nightclub and entertainment district, and many old buildings were renovated for new uses. Since then, the area's economy has diversified with more offices and residences, and the population has shown notable growth for the first time in over half a century.
Ybor City has been designated as a National Historic Landmark District, and several structures in the area are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, 7th Avenue, Ybor City's main commercial thoroughfare, was recognized as one of the "10 Great Streets in America" by the American Planning Association. In 2010 Columbia Restaurant was named a "Top 50 All-American icon" by Nation's Restaurant News magazine.
In the early 1880s, Tampa was an isolated village with a population of less than 1000 and a struggling economy. However, its combination of a good port, Henry Plant's new railroad line, and humid climate attracted the attention of Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish cigar manufacturer.
Ybor had moved his cigar-making operation from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in 1869, due to political turmoil in the then-Spanish colony. But, labor unrest and the lack of room for expansion had him looking for another base of operations, preferably in his own company town.
Ybor considered several communities in the southern United States and decided that an area of sandy scrubland just northeast of Tampa would be the best location. In 1885, the Tampa Board of Trade helped broker an initial purchase of 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land, and Ybor quickly bought more. However, Ybor City very nearly didn't happen at all. Vicente Ybor initially failed to come to an agreement with the owner of the 40 acre parcel. The Tampa Board of Trade was horrified to find that the purchase had failed and hatched a plan to get the buyer and seller back together. Vicente Ybor was sitting in the train station on his way to Jacksonville to look at more property when the Board of Trade (a group of five, one of whom was Frederick Salomonson, future 3-time mayor of Tampa) arrived and persuaded Ybor to reconsider and the deal went forward from there, the birth of Ybor City.
Italians were also among the early settlers of Ybor City. Most of them came from a few villages in southwestern Sicily. The villages were Santo Stefano Quisquina, Alessandria della Rocca, Bivona, Cianciana, and Contessa Entellina. Sixty percent of them came from Santo Stefano Quisquina. Before settling in Ybor City, many first worked in the sugar cane plantations in St. Cloud, central Florida. Some came by way of Louisiana. A number of families migrated from New Orleans after the lynching of eleven Italians in 1891 during the "Mafia Riot". Italians mostly brought their entire families with them, unlike other immigrants. The foreign-born Italian population of Tampa grew from 56 in 1890 to 2,684 in 1940. Once arriving in Ybor City, Italians settled mainly in the eastern and southern fringes of the city. The area was referred to as La Pachata, after a Cuban rent collector in that area. It was also called "Little Italy".
In 1887, Tampa annexed the neighborhood. By 1900, the rough frontier settlement of wooden buildings and sandy streets had been transformed into a bustling town with brick buildings and streets, a streetcar line, and many social and cultural opportunities. Largely due to the growth of Ybor City, Tampa's population had jumped to almost 16,000.
Ybor City grew and prospered during the first decades of the 20th Century. Thousands of residents built a community that combined Cuban, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish culture. "Ybor City is Tampa's Spanish India," observed a visitor to the area, "What a colorful, screaming, shrill, and turbulent world."
Circulo Cubano de Tampa, one of Ybor City's social clubs
An aspect of life were the mutual aid societies built and sustained mainly by ordinary citizens. These clubs were founded in Ybor's early days (the first was the Centro Español, established in 1891) and were run on dues collected from their members, usually 5% of a member's salary. In exchange, members and their whole family received services including free libraries, educational programs, sports teams, restaurants, numerous social functions like dances and picnics, and free medical services. Beyond the services, these clubs served as extended families and communal gathering places for generations of Ybor's citizens.
There were clubs for each ethnic division in the community – the Deutscher-Americaner Club (for German and eastern Europeans), L'Unione Italiana (for Italians), El Circulo Cubano (for light-skinned Cubans), La Union Marti-Maceo (for darker-skinned Cubans), El Centro Español (for Spaniards), and the largest, El Centro Asturiano, which accepted members from any ethnic group[20]
Although there was little racism in Ybor City, Tampa's Jim Crow laws at the time forbade Afro-Cubans from belonging to the same social organization as their lighter-skinned countrymen. Sometimes, differences in skin color within the same family made joining the same Cuban club impossible. In general, the rivalries between all the clubs were friendly, and families were known to switch affiliations depending on which one offered preferred services and events.
Cigar production reached its peak in 1929, when 500 million cigars were rolled in the factories of Ybor City. Not coincidentally, that was also the year that the Great Depression began.
In the early 1980s, an influx of artists seeking interesting and inexpensive studio quarters started a slow recovery, followed by a period of commercial gentrification. By the early 1990s, many of the old long-empty brick buildings on 7th Avenue had been converted into bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other nightlife attractions.Traffic grew so much that the city built parking garages and closed 7th Ave. to traffic to deal with the visitors.
Cigar making display, Ybor City Museum State Park
Since around 2000, the city of Tampa and the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce have encouraged a broader emphasis in development. With financial help from the city, Centro Ybor, a family-oriented shopping complex and movie theater, opened in the former home of the Centro Español social club.
The Florida Brewing Company building was restored into a commercial building in 2001. New apartments, condominiums and a hotel have been built on long-vacant lots, and old buildings have been restored and converted into residences and hotels. New residents began moving into Ybor City for the first time in many years. The blocks surrounding 7th Avenue also thrive with restaurants, nightlife and shopping. Reflecting the district's status as a party destination, Ybor City is referenced extensively in the lyrics of Brooklyn-based rock band The Hold Steady. The song "Killer Parties", for instance, contains the line "Ybor City is très speedy, but they throw such killer parties." In May 2009 Swedish super-retailer IKEA opened its long-awaited Tampa location in the southern edge of Ybor City.
The local museum is the Ybor City Museum State Park in the former Ferlita Bakery building (originally La Joven Francesca) building on 9th Avenue. Tours of the gardens and the "casitas" (small homes of cigar company workers) are provided by a ranger. Exhibits, period photos and a video cover the founding of Ybor City and the cigar making industry.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ybor_City
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Northstar's first train of the rush gets on the gas clear of Van Buren Street in Minneapolis, rattling the windows (no, not really) of Indeed Brewing.
In all honesty these trains go nearly unnoticed by commuters, residents and railfans alike. I for one love the bright paint but I really love these brick buildings in the neighborhood and in some way all of the bright graffiti complements the train consist.
In a view from the Roosevelt Road bridge, BN E9 No. 9918 accelerates a westbound suburban train departing Chicago Union Station past a line of inbound trains backing down from the coach yard, in September 1989.
NS eastbound manifest 167 continues to be a reliable morning train on the Southern West District. Morning fog was starting to roll back as 167 clears Belleville and begins to accelerate onto the straight flat track towards New Baden.
02-27-2021