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Sounder commuter train 1511 accelerates up the grade onto the Point Defiance Bypass after departing Tacoma. 6-23-23
West Coast Railways Class 33 33207 "Jim Martin" accelerates through Walsall with the 11:47 (9 early) 1Z39 Crewe to Rugeley B Power Stn (Fhh) "Cliffe Vale Hopper".
Getting a late start to the day due to several overhead BNSF trains, local 844 accelerates from Manhattan, MT with their cars dropped off from local 841. March 2019.
A view of the SDG Pavilion, a convening space and art installation on the United Nations North Lawn supported by Project Everyone. The space will hold a full week of talks and performances during the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly debate, in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Halftime Campaign to accelerate action for people and planet.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
11 September 2023
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN7998366
The first train I snapped in 2017 was this. UK Rail leasing Class 56 56081 accelerates through Kings Norton with the 14:12 (24 early) Leicester L.I.P to Long Marston Railvac move, which was terminated at Worcs Shrub Hill Sig 59.
The regular engineer climbs the ladder into the cab of F-7 335 and takes control of 6,000 horsepower to accelerate the SF Chief up to it's 89 mph track speed south to Bakersfield, CA.
Powering out of Water Orton, 66601 The Hope Valley leads 6H82 Small Heath Lafarge to Tunstead Sidings.
33029+33012 accelerate away from a signal check at Carr Lane crossing Moreton with 1Z86 09.05 Crewe - West Kirby "The Ruby Vampire, note Leasowe Lighthouse in the left distance.
Sunday 24 March 2019.
I've been experimenting with "selective" photo manipulation and this is an example…taken this fall….don't believe the exif data…. this was really taken using a 14mm Rokinon lens...
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Railfreight Metals 37714 'Thornaby TMD' and two-tone grey 37884 'Gartcosh' accelerate away from Wensley station level crossing with Hertfordshire Railtours 1G24 07:40 Kings Cross to Redmire 'The Wensleydale Lament' on 2nd January 1993. 'Heavyweight' 37714, delivered new to March TMD in August 1961 numbered D6724, is now preserved on the Great Central Railway, named 'Cardiff Canton. It carried the 'Thornaby TMD' name for just five months.
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From a Facebook posting by John Barry Graham on 8 August 2023:
"A tornado in 2015 took the roof off. The community that saved and restored the two old churches has $16,000 saved up thus far to put a new roof on and save the elevator. It is the most photographed elevator in Western Canada."
Drone footage of Dorothy elevator and old bridge East Coulee, by DanOCan
I had put these five photos aside when I last deleted a few more photos from my computer. Gradually, I will add the description that I had written under a different posted photo taken on the same day.
Just playing with the settings of my camera, Panasonic FZ200, back in 2014. Taken on 29 September 2014, before the roof was blown off in a wind storm in 2015. Unfortunately, it has never been repaired.
"On 29 September 2014, I finally drove out to an area that lies NE of Calgary, that I had longed to go to for so many years. It must have been 30+ years ago that I first saw one particular area of the Badlands of Alberta. A few times since then, I had been fairly close when I went on several botany trips out that way, but when you are carpooling, you can't just go wherever you want. So, my youngest daughter and I decided that we both wanted to make this trip. All summer, we had been waiting for a day on which she didn't have to work and where the weather forecast was for no rain on the day or there had been no rain the previous day. The Bentonite Clay in the area becomes treacherously slippery when wet. The forecast for this day was for a mainly sunny day - at last, we were going!
I think this was the longest day of driving I had ever done, especially to, and in, an area that I'd never driven to before. For anyone who doesn't know me, I have battled a driving phobia for decades, plus I have no sense of direction, lol! Thankfully, my daughter has an amazing sense of direction, so I knew we wouldn't be stuck out on the prairies in the middle of nowhere. A typical question at too many intersections went as follows: me - "Do we go left?"; my daughter - "No, we go right", lol!
I met my daughter at 8:00 am. and I got home shortly before 9:00 pm. Much of that time was spent driving; the rest was spent wandering round three main areas - The Hoodoo Trail, Dorothy and Rowley, in different directions from Drumheller (known for its remarkable dinosaur findings). The forecast was far from accurate on our drive out to the Badlands and I began to wonder if we'd made a mistake going on this trip on that particular day. However, knowing that snow would be returning very soon ("returning" because we had two snowstorms on 9 and 10 September), I was beginning to feel rather desperate and really didn't want to risk not getting out there this year. The afternoon was less cloudy and we did have some sun.
So, the first of our destinations was The Hoodoo Trail, a small area of protected, spectacular hoodoos (rock formations), and then we went further, to the almost-ghost-town of Dorothy. I had longed, for such a long time, to see the two small, old churches that are to be found in Dorothy, as well as the old grain elevator seen in this photo. This photo was obviously taken before the sun eventually came out. This abandoned icon of the prairies stands at the edge of the main road and will probably end up crumbling or being destroyed before too long, like so many other grain elevators in Alberta. Such a waste, that they are not protected.
After that, we drove over 11 bridges and called in at the tiny hamlet of Wayne, passing the old Atlas Coal Mine. Much as we would have liked to visit the mine, we knew that we just didn't have time. Then we went to Rowley to see the old grain elevators and to wander round this very small, historical place. There are actually three elevators, with two being right next to each other and the other one a little further from them. Dorothy felt and looked almost deserted, whereas Rowley was beautifully kept.
From Rowley, we made our way back across the prairies to Calgary. I had planned on getting back before it got dark as I no longer like night driving and very rarely do it, but we didn't quite make it. On the return drive, the last sighting was a Great Horned Owl that was perched part way up a power pole. Well done, Rachel, spotting this welcome bird! Not easy to see in the dark. By the time I got home, I was so tired and my arms were so painful from driving, but, what a great day we had!!
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf
www.bigdoer.com/8049/exploring-history/prairie-sentinels-...
An interesting film about how the old grain elevators work (or worked). Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal, National Film Board of Canada, 15:57 minutes in length.
TL152 powers away from Ararat as 6L63 to Kaniva, then onto Leeor Loop to run around.
707 Operations ran a break of gauge and jointly operated tour with Steamrail Victoria to Ararat using Broad Gauge equipment and then onto Kavina using Standard Gauge equipment for lunch.
Saturday 27th February 2016
Fall accelerates:
Another walk around one of the lakes here. I was surprised, fall colors were basically absent only few days ago, now there is obviously more to see. I hope color will build up a bit in the next weeks, and it's not gone before it really starts.
I did boost color in these a bit, it was a dull day.
Class 91 electric locomotive No. 91127 gets away from Leeds propelling 1A39, the 15:45 service to London King's Cross on Monday 11th February 2019.
Living over 200 miles from Leeds I doubt that I will ever see this sight again but, given that I have connections with the city, it's not impossible. I've read in the railway press that LNER plans to retire all 91/Mk4/DVT combinations from its fleet by June 2020.
The photograph shows the "91" simply doing what members of the 31-strong class have done day in, day out for three decades, and they represent a triumph of BR-era design and engineering skills. These locomotives have beaten the A4s, the Deltics and the HSTs in terms of endurance, working top flight expresses between London and Yorkshire, the North East and Edinburgh for longer than any of those classic predecessors. For this achievement they are deserving of respect, as are the men and women in all rail industry capacities who have kept these trains running over the years. The signs are that some "Inter-City 225" sets at least will find work elsewhere on the national network, so that is something different to look forward to.
In pouring rain the Black 5 accelerates up the grade towards Marks Tey on the final day of the Great Britain XV tour. This is notable on two counts - most main line steam charters have always stopped at Colchester for water so to see one working hard through the station non-stop is quite the novelty and secondly this is the first time I have ever seen one of these Railway Touring Company Great Britain tours as this is the first time they have ever ventured into East Anglia.
66785 accelerates away from a signal check at York Station with the 4N80 Doncaster Down Decoy to North Blyth working.
A66 races into Ardeer as 8129 V/line passenger service bound for Bacchus Marsh on a hot Autumn afternoon
In the background is the former Anderson Road level crossing, this has since been grade separated; www.flickr.com/photos/henrysrailwaygallery/14348164072
Tuesday 12th March 2013
Mohawk Adirondack & Northern C425 805 accelerates its short train at the Mohawk River bridge. This formerly double-tracked bridge was part of New York Central's main line before a relocation in the early 1900s.
Accelerating out of Bell Ayer Mine, the long 1% climb up Logan Hill lies ahead.......Powder River Basin, Wyoming 1996
Bit of a story with this one as the 6 amigos set up when the midgys attacked so Ian Ball, Andi 86311, Tinsley Tyke and myself don the midgy nets looking like bank robbers whilst Tom & Sparky are exposed to attack as double pinky Skodas 90018 "Pride of Bellshill & 040 accelerate away from Abington loop round the curve at Castle Hill with 4m25 Mossend-Daventry intermodal. (pole)
View from the top of Korkeakoski just before it falls about 35 metres to the valley.
Taken with:
Canon EOS 6D
Zeiss Distagon T* 2,8/21 ZE
Lee Filters: 0.9 ND Pro Glass
Lee Filters: GND 0.3 Soft Edge
Arriving downtown I had to wonder if I was about to repeat the last time I went after a Magnetation train and landed trackside with 30 seconds to spare; headlight to the east on M2! Then I got a closer look; it was an NS powered oil. For some reason it was sitting just east of Fairview Ave even though it had a clear green, so what was up? Train failure, accident, picking up some rolls from Pepperidge Farm, well we’ll never know, but after holding for another five minutes it got on the move. Perfect, there’s nothing like the sound of a train getting on the move!
Downers Grove IL / Washington St
BNSF w/b empty unit oil
NS 8113 ES44AC
NS 7220 ES44DC
An Inter City 125 accelerates the 12.00 Newcastle to Cardiff service past the former Chaloner's Whyn junction. 13.15 5/1/1985
Night shot of the upper and lower decks. Taken from I-35 and 38th 1/2
Been wanting to take this shot for a while now. This is a five image HDR. -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, processed in Photomatix Pro and then CS5. I've been following a fellow flickr member's tutorials/advice and used some of the techniques he posted to process this. After initially processing the 5 images, I processed a single image with the best light trails using similar settings. Then masked the light trails in to get rid of the ghosting. It worked out well...I think. I think I need more practice, but overall, I'm happy with it. Oh! and my levitation skills are sick!...Check out Neil's tutorials here, if you're interested.
ScotRail 385024 leads a friend quickly away from Prestonpans forming 2Y20 Edinburgh - North Berwick.