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As the last light of day begins to disappear, a handful of passengers gather on the leaf-ridden Claremont platform, the result of harsh winds the previous day, awaiting their westbound train to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, eastbound Metrolink train 336 lurks in the distance, rounding the corner past the intermediate signal at milepost 32 as it races away from the sunset towards San Bernardino.
Another image of the southbound ''Capitals Mail'' , this time at Wallyford. Caught with the low winter sun , we see EWS liveried 90020 speed through Wallyford on the 8th March 2000 at 1611. This is a Edinburgh - London Willesden loaded Mail train.
This is the approach to Baring elevator, the subject of the first image in this series. Aside from the elevator, there is not much to see except the road and the remains of the town on the right. The Baring elevator was built by the Maple Leaf Milling Company in 1909 and it was closed and abandoned in the early 60s when the railway line was closed.
Baring, Saskatchewan, Canada.
If you'd like to read about my recent winter trip to Saskatchewan, you're welcome to check out my blog post about it.
At one time, grain elevators could be found every 8 to 10 miles along every railway line in western Canada. That allowed most farmers to make a round trip to an elevator to deliver and sell their grain with a horse and wagon in one day. From that elevator the grain would be shipped to ports on the Great Lakes or the west coast, across Canada and around the world. Grain elevators started appearing across the Prairies in the late 19th century, and the number of grain elevators peaked in 1938, when there were nearly 6,000 primary (country) elevators in the Prairie provinces. Many factors led to the decline of the primary elevator: the Depression, increased mechanization, improved roads for transportation, rural depopulation, the closing of branch lines of the railway and the buying out or merging of the grain companies and the building of large, concrete grain terminals. In 2023 there were only around 400 country elevators left in Saskatchewan and only about 100 are still in use. Many of the old, wooden elevators have been destroyed – burned down, struck by lightning, demolished - but some of them still remain - weathered but beautiful and stalwart.
Sources: Dommasch, H. (1986) Prairie Giants. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books and Farrell, I. (2023) Reflections on Wooden Grain Elevators. heritagesask.ca/news/reflections-on-wooden-grain-elevators
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)in a snag on the peninsula of Munson Pond, Kelowna, BC.
"And I've been watching you, too!"
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A 3 image panorama as we were first approaching Sedoan near Oak Creek at the visitors center before we started our 'Pink Jeep Tour'.
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Olympus OM4, Ektachrome EB100, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light table using a 12mm extension tube; tethered capture and digital processing in Lightroom.
"Grassholm (Welsh: Gwales or Ynys Gwales) is a small uninhabited island situated 13 kilometres off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, lying west of Skomer. It is the westernmost point in Wales other than the isolated rocks on which the Smalls Lighthouse stands. Grassholm is known for its huge colony of northern gannets; the island has been owned since 1947 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is one of its oldest reserves.
Grassholm National Nature Reserve is the third most important site for gannets in the world, after two sites in Scotland: St Kilda and Bass Rock. It serves as a breeding site for 39,000 pairs of the birds, and supports around 10 percent of the world population. The turbulent sea around Grassholm is a good feeding area for porpoises and bottlenose dolphins." (Wikipedia, edited)
This image was taken last year at Botallack Mines in Cornwall and depicts the mist rolling in towards Botallack.
I believe this was my second visit to Botallack and had originally planned to do what most do when they visit -capture a sunset. Once the mist rolled in, I knew I had to shelf those plans. It made for an interesting drive back as this was much like after the first visit when the drive back was covered in mist.
Unlike the recent posts, this image is a newly edited image.
YAY, finally a little bit of nice cloud cover - it has been quite cloudless around here for a long time now, and of course the clouds came yesterday morning with a beautiful sunrise - I was totally unprepared, so just had to enjoy it from our bed. ;-)
Decided to get out this morning, hoping they would still be around. I was not dissapointed, a nice little storm was approaching the coast line - so were able to get a few long exposures before the clouds dumped their payload. Got drenched running back to the car, but never mind, the clouds are back!
After the storm had passed I went back down to the rocks - but the camera did not want to turn on!!! Arrgh - packed everything back up again and were just enjoying the sunrise.
Not sure what happend, but the camera turned back on when I got home. phew.
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A lengthy MRONY snakes into Gore Canyon as it slowly works up the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Rafters are frequently seen in this area, attempting to navigate the fierce whitewater of the Colorado.
UP 6076 --- MRONY --- Azure, Colorado
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A very windy and wet evening down La Corbiere Lighthouse... I took a right battering from the sea spray!
September 29, 2011: Approaching Storm in Silverjack Wilderness area of the Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
Along the Myakka River at Myakka River State Park near Sarasota Florida.
After drought conditions the summer rains have finally begun.
Almost walked into the alligator on the lower right of the picture.
3025 is now south of Westfield IA and is making the turn to approach the Big Sioux River bridge into SD and back on to the BNSF Aberdeen Sub at Elk Pont SD
Among the best types of approach that's definitely the best. Strangely only she noticed me ... he was not disturbed ... better that way.
Here's a view of Western Maryland Shay #6, the largest Shay Locomotive ever designed from scratch, as she approaches the summit of Bald Knob, the third highest point in West Virginia, at 4,843 ft above sea level, with a short log train. Bald Knob, the terminus of today's Cass Scenic Railroad, is also the highest point east of the Mississippi River, that is served by a standard gauge railroad. Although the grade right here, just a few hundred yards from end-of-track, appears relatively mild, the grade just below this point is one of the steepest on the entire 11 mile railroad.
Interestingly, although Shay #6 was designed for steep grades, she's one of the few Shays that was not built for the logging industry. The "Big Six", as she is sometimes called, was built for the Western Maryland Railway, to drag heavy coal trains from the mines on its Chaffee Branch, near Elkins, WV, where the grades were as much as 9%.
While this may look like a peak from this angle, it is actually the "saddle" between to peaks....Hagar and Pettingell.
I met a girl once and she told me,"When the sky gets green you know a bad storm is on the way." I had my head focused straight ahead, as we steered that convertible into the dusky air. I turned to look into her eyes...and all I saw was green.
Just a simple clean boring wedge shot I kind of like from this splendid day. At least the old school MEC flange lift sign at right ads a bit of interest.
Having traveled 29 miles from North Conway and run around beside the historic former Maine Central depot at Fabyans, Conway Scenic Railroad's 470 Railroad Club is starting their eastbound return trip. They are seen here approaching the gateway at MP 84.5 of the old Maine Central Railroad's Mountain Sub, having just departed from the Crawford's depot at the 1900 ft high point of the railroad. Ahead looms the long 1400 ft 2.2% descent down the mountain through Crawford Notch.
Both units are owned by the 470 Railroad Club and are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1751 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
Addendum: thanks to Carl Byron for supplying the fascinating historical information below that I'd never read about before.
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a "slightly used demo" price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
Crawford Notch
Carroll, New Hampshire
Saturday October 22, 2022
The BR Table 122 07:35 Basingstoke to Reading Route 66 DEMU 207 013 was recorded between Bramley and Mortimer on a splendid morning in early May 1993.
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