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Over the year I have found many Anthracite minerals in the garden, the last one I found is Coal shale, it has many layers of Fern fossils.
Coal differs from other rocks because it consists of organic carbon rather than mineralized rocks.
Btw I also collect rocks if I felled to mention it:-)
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Beavers have taken a liking to the Ruby Anthracite Creek, which flows between the Ruby Mountains and the Anthracite Mountains in western Colorado. Three dams are visible in this frame, but there are many more.
This made me wonder, once again, whether beavers have a sense of esthetics--they work so hard to create reflecting pools to live in. But on the other hand, one might say that they build dams to build homes safe from predators--their lodges have underwater entrances.
Aspen and spruce in the background, willows crowding the stream.
In what looks like a much more recent scene from the Reading & Northern, two of Conrail’s ex-Reading MP15’s spend the weekend in West Cressona, Pennsylvania.
En Charente-Maritime, le long du littoral se dressent de petites cabanes reliées à la terre par un ponton. Ce sont des cabanes à carrelet, nom emprunté au filet carré qui sert à pêcher depuis ces installations.
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Passing through very late autumn colors, Anthracite Railway’s former Amtrak SW1 has an excursion train at Powder Valley, Pennsylvania.
An Anthracite Railway excursion passes County Line Mills in Palm, Pennsylvania as it returns to Pennsburg.
The indispensable Dok has gone missing. We sift the sands for lost things....Have You Seen Him?
(Ongoing RP storyline in Wastelands)
Location:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cape%20of%20Ruin/232/247/73
The Sand Sea - The Wastelands
Windlight: London 2050
Wearing:
DRD Armor
Asteria Vera Top
DarkWare Black Death Mask
ADI cropped Hair
CX Ikenga's Horns
::TI:: Ear Cuffs V1 - anthracite - White Diamond
[The Forge] Banshee Armour, Black
Messiah : Maschil / Ring #3
Pose: *MP* Prince Charming
Maitreya Lara
Bound for Dillinger tunnel, an Anthracite Railway excursion passes the brick water tank base at Powder Valley, Pennsylvania.
One of the three Reading & Northern SD38s leading some empty coal cars for the Reading Anthracite Coal Company in Girardville. This SD38 was originally built for the DT&I in 1971. This was a welcomed catch during the trip!
Approaching Powder Valley, Pennsylvania, Anthracite Railway’s ex-Delaware & Hudson RS3 leads one of the road’s the annual Pennsburg – Zionville excursion trains.
Unrepainted Delaware & Hudson RS3 4118 leads an Anthracite Railway excursion past the former Reading depot at East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Water falls, splashes and cascades through Ruby Anthracite Creek, which flows between the Ruby Mountains and the Anthracite Mountains in western Colorado. Here the Creek flows through an Engelmann spruce -subalpine fir forest.
Ruby Anthracite Creek begins at Lake Irwin, in the Ruby Mountains, and drops quickly over cascades and several waterfalls. Its name comes from the fact that it collects smaller creeks from both the Ruby Mountains and the Anthracite Mountains.
At this particular time, sunlight illuminated the water while most of the background was in shade. I didn't plan this, I just noticed it.
Some brilliant autumn colors have persisted into November for the Anthracite Railway’s annual excursions, one of which is seen rolling westbound into Powder Valley, Pennsylvania.
Aspen trunks twist in various directions just off the Ruby Anthracite trail below the Ruby Mountains in south central Colorado. Twisted aspen trunks can be caused by several things, including snow and soil creep (movement at different layers) when the trees were young.There is evidence that some trees have a genetic predisposition to producing curved stems, though what would select for this is uncertain.
Delaware & Hudson RS3 4118 leads an Anthracite Railway excursion across the trestle over the Hosensack Creek in Palm, Pennsylvania. Today trees have obliterated the view seen here.
After a career switching coaches for Amtrak, this SW1 ended up on the Anthracite Railway, pulling freight on the former Reading Perkiomen Branch. For one day, it was promoted to passenger duty for excursions between Pennsburg and Dillinger tunnel.
Looking across the valley of Anthracite Creek from the slopes of the Ruby Mountains toward East (l) and West (r) Beckwith Mountains. This amazing canopy of flaming aspen is only about a quarter of the full area covered by aspen in this valley, considered the largest continuous stand of aspen in Colorado. It's no wonder this area is a mecca for leaf peepers in the fall.
The brick water tank base at Powder Valley, Pennsylvania is one of the few existing structures on the remaining portion of the Reading’s Perkiomen Branch. Anthracite Railway, the first designated operator of the branch after Conrail spun it off, sponsored an excursion with its e-D&H RS3 and ex-Reading coaches, which I believe were borrowed from George Hart. Here the train passes the water tank base.
A single Reading & Northern SW8 pulls two outbound loads out of the Jeddo Breaker just north of Hazleton. This kind of loose-car coal hauling is largely gone from today's railroads. The classic end-cab switcher with no ditch lights makes this a truly timeless scene.
The ex-Delaware & Hudson RS3 4118 is gone, and the Anthracite Railway 1986 excursion are in the charge of an ex-Amtrak SW1. The train is seen crossing the trestle over the Hosensack Creek in Palm, Pennsylvania.
The 1986 edition of the Anthracite Railway’s Pennsburg – Dillingersville Tunnel excursion featured one of the road’s ex-Amtrak SW1’s for power. The train is seen here arriving at Pennsburg.
QANR arrives at North Reading with an SD40-2, SD38, SD40-2 trio hauling 90 loads of Pennsylvania Anthracite coal. The train is in the process of weighing the loads on the scale track, which the train can be seen crossing over to in the background.
Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highest ranking of coals.
A trio of Anthracite Roads heritage units lead Delaware-Lackawanna train SC-7 south down the former Delaware & Hudson Penn Division mainline at Dickson City, Pennsylvania. Former Central Railroad of New Jersey RS3 1554 leads former Lehigh Valley C420 414 and former Erie-Lackawanna C425 2452 and a train of empty sand hoppers. The Linde frac sand unloading facility in the former D&H yard at Carbondale keeps the D-L pretty busy these days, including weekend extras like this one. Thanks for the help Biff!
A familiar scene from Reading and Conrail days, pups tugging away on anthracite loads. Here's YJNR1 coming under the old Pennsy bridge at Kerns earlier this afternoon. 2/20/23
November has arrived, and some fall foliage remains in Eastern Pennsylvania. Here Anthracite Railway SW1 735 rolls past a tree that hasn’t shed its leaves.
Ohio Creek Valley with the Anthracites on the left and Carbon Peak on the right. Good skiing back there!
The Anthracite Railway operated a series of excursions between Pennsburg, Pennsylvania and the Dillingersville tunnel on the former Reading Perkiomen Branch in November, 1985. The power, an unrenumbered Delaware & Hudson RS3, is seen here getting up its train’s air in front of the Pennsburg depot.
Under ominous November skies, an Anthracite Railways excursion passes through County Line, Pennsylvania.
With 21 loads of Pennsylvania anthracite coal, RBMN #5049, a former MoPac SD50, leads the SDQA back into Tamaqua after waiting at East Mahanoy for the NRFF and the training special. To think that the old Reading once handled as many as 16 million tons of anthracite on any given year.
What do you do when you’re a miner and the coal-mines have closed down? Well, if you are an enterprising chap at heart, you start carving figures out of the mineral that gave you your first job - Welsh Coal!
This was bought about 30yrs ago in an old mining town in Wales. The small shop had other figures. No elephants, my favourite, but I also love hippos so this little fella was the one I took away with me.
A lot of Welsh coal is of the type Anthracite. It isn’t as brittle as the coal variety burned normally in houses and because it is harder it’s good for carving.
For Looking Close on……Friday! Theme…….Handmade.
Pre-Conrail fallen flags of a different color: Lackawanna E8A
No. 808 (ex-PRR) and CNJ/CRP F3A No. 56 (ex-BAR) pose for photographers at the Steamtown Rail Photo Weekend in Scranton PA on the evening of 17 September 1993.
RBMN QASD arrives Reading Anthracite in Girardville, Pennsylvania on the former RDG Shenandoah Branch.
Pennsburg’s finest have traffic on Pennsylvania Route 663 stopped so the Anthracite Railway’s locomotive, a Delaware & Hudson RS3, can run around its excursion train.
This collection of aspen below the Anthracite Range exhibits color variation both within individual trees as well as among the different clones (groups/ clumps of trees). The latter group (clones) represent genetically distinct individuals that have reproduced via underground stems.