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view from the pedestrian bridge connecting the Seattle King Street Amtrak Station to the transit plaza adjacent to Paul Allen's Vulcan building, shown in the photo. It gives people an easy connection between Amtrak and Sounder Commuter Rail over to Link Light Rail and Community Transit buses. The bridge spans the Amtrak and BNSF tracks. When heading northbound (to the left in the photo), the tracks immediately go into the Seattle train tunnel, emerging at the northwest end of the city. Link Light Rail also heads north, but in a separate tunnel.
Shots around Berwick station prior to the replacement of the overhead as part of the High Capacity Trains project. At the time of these pictures works were yet to be completed at Berwick but had been done around Narre Warren
The station itself was located east side of the level crossing at Clyde Road in what was rural land on the southern side of the town centre for most of its history. A goods yard was located on the southern side of the station facing what was originally the only platform, later removed for car parking.
Electrification through here was originally completed as part of the Gippsland Line project - the only Victorian country main line to be electrified. It was officially opened to Warragul in July 1954 and Traralgon in March 1956 although test trains along this section to Narre Warren were running in 1952. The line was progressively duplicated soon after with most of this section completed in 1956, although a single track remained between Narre Warren and Berwick until early 1962. Following withdrawal of electric locomotives to Traralgon in 1987 and cessation of limited suburban trains to Warragul in 1998 (commenced 1987) the Dandenong-Pakenham section was the last part in use for suburban operations, with the wiring itself renewed in the late 1990s.
Compare to this shot from the Weston Langford collection in 1963.
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The tiny town of Hilger is very quiet these days. It sits in a beautiful location with both mountain and prairie views. We didn't see anyone at all around town, just the sound of the lonely wind blowing between the buildings. But there was still something so charming about it all :)
"Hilger is north of Lewistown and was named for David J. Hilger, early resident and prominent citizen of the area. For many years Hilger was secretary of the Montana Historical Society in Helena. The town was originally known as Kendall, after a mining camp a few miles to the west. In 1913, three heavy gold bars were put on the train at Hilger, the last gold shipment from the Kendall Mine, according to the Wells Fargo messenger Frank Kowatch, who was there to deposit the gold in the train's special safe. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) You can see the remains of the Kendall mine several miles west of town on a dirt road. But the town's major gold mine and mill, located at the top of Main Street, was owned by the Barnes-King Development Company, which developed the mine in 1900-01.
In 1911, the Milwaukee Railroad created Hilger about six miles east of Kendall. Many of the Kendall residents and businesses moved their buildings to the new town. Large-scale mining at Kendall ended the next year, although some local mines continued to operate until 1923." -visitmt.com
Read this review about a local business that is now closed:
www.epinions.com/review/trvl-Dest-United_States-Montana/t...
taken as we started our descent towards Francisco B. Reyes Airport in Busuanga Island
Busuanga, Palawan, Philipines
Busuanga is one of twenty-three (23) municipalities (along with one city) comprising the province of Palawan in the Mimaropa Region in the Philippines.
It is the northwesternmost town of Palawan, and one of two towns on Busuanga Island, the other being Coron.
Busuanga is known for its pristine natural attractions, and the wide array of eco-adventure activities it offers its visitors. It is a town blessed with scenic island beaches, exquisite corals and marine reserves, lush tropical rainforests, picturesque mountain views, and waterfalls cascading onto mangrove-laden rivers and streams, among others.
Most significantly, Busuanga is known for the Calauit Game Preserve and Wildlife Sanctuary, an island dedicated to wildlife conservation and the preservation of their natural habitat, particularly exotic African animals and endangered fauna endemic to Palawan.
The first visit caught on camera, the top wing tip was just out the farm so I decided to crop in as it was sharp enough to make a good action shot!
A storm approaches Happy Valley in Caloundra. Taken on the iPhone with the Pano App. I like this one too as I managed to capture boy pointing at the storm.
Photo Tools Used
iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 camera is a huge improvement on the previous iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 4 camera specs are:
5.0 Mpixels (2592 x 1936)
1/3.2" back-illuminated CMOS sensor
4:3 aspect ratio
35 mm film camera crop factor: 7.64
Low ISO 80 (or better)
3.85 mm lens focal length
f/2.8 lens aperture
Autofocus: tap to focus
With the camera improvement and screen improvement, iPhone 4 photos just seem to pop. Amazing clarity.
iPhone 4 camera apps used in my photos
Camera+ iPhone App by tap tap tap
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Sometime around 8 o'clock the sun broke through to a great cheer from the crowd around Jiangnan Sky Pond. This photo, taken at 08:27 - just five minutes before First Contact, shows the spectators starting to put on their special eclipse spectacles to look for the first evidence of the solar eclipse - a small piece of the sun gone black.
I never noticed the person coming towards me (on this private field).
Agfa Optima Flash Sensor and Fujicolor C200
A fairly straight forward approach this one, onto Nusawiru's 1400m tarmac runway. Very pretty part of Java being near to Pangandaran on the south coast of Java.
For the first time I could admire completely new navigation lights at the head of Runway 24. Perfectly in scene this Wizz A320 on approach.
Going through some older photos I discovered this set, which I had not previously uploaded. These are the tulip fields in the Skagit Valley, near Mt. Vernon, Washington. I traveled up to the tulip fields several times while these were blooming, this was the best day in terms of color, but a bit on the windy side for kite flying.
A pair of Irish Rail Class 2800 two-car DMUs (including 2801/02) belch smoke as they start to make their way into Maynooth station having been stopped at the home signal for a few minutes.
You'll notice that the signal is yellow not green - this is because the train is only cleared to move one signal forward (into Maynooth station), where it will again be stopped by a red signal. The diagonal row of white lights indicate to the driver that his train is being routed right across the set of points as you enter the station - in other words, he is being moved to the other track, which is Platform 1. On the other side of the track you can see the back of another signal - this is the Distant Signal for Blakestown level crossing.
This shot was generated by tonemapping a single RAW image with Photomatix Pro, and the tweaking the resulting image a little with Aperture 3.