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Amtrak Southwest Chief gets back on straight rail at Highlands after coming through the Shoo fly. A Surfliner cab car brought up the rear.
Went to the Botanical Garden yesterday to find some signs of Spring and I found some ;-) It was a beautiful Spring like day but now we are back to colder temperatures and maybe some snow tomorrow night!
I'm behind again but will try to catch up!
Have a fantastic day!
I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough
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Sail on silver girl
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I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
-Paul Simon
When some has your back, it's easy to get a second wind.
After spending a week in Florida with temperatures in the low 80's, it was quite the contrast early Saturday morning as I made the painfully slow 6.5 hour drive north on icy and snow covered roads. The Presque Isle area has been getting hit hard with snow this winter. According to the National Weather service January checked in with 59.8 inches, breaking the record for January snow. Milepost 6 on the former Bangor & Aroostook Fort Fairfield Branch lies in the middle of a potato field and is known as the worst spot for drifting on what's left of the BAR. For most of the winter a Pettibone was able to keep the area passable, but recent storms proved too much. In order to continue operating trains the Maine Northern Railway operated their Jordan Spreader north from Squa Pan over to Presque Isle on the Presque Isle Subdivision then north on the Fort Fairfield Subdvision from Presque Isle to Fairmount Siding. I've always been jealous of photographers in the upper midwest shooting plows, spreaders and rotaries in deep drifts. In recent years I've kept MP6 in my mind as my best opportunity to someday shoot a train in a "real" drift. In this shot they are making their first of several passes as a snow squall starts. Pushing the ex CP spreader is GMTX GP38-2 #2645 and NBSR GP38-2 #2319.
Easton, Maine
February 16, 2019
Under the new ownership of Cloburn Quarry Company Ltd, Ravenstruther Rail Terminal is once again back in business after many, many years of no freight traffic.
On Monday the 4th of April 2022, 66554 is photographed at Ravenstruther Rail Terminal having just worked 6K60 from Thornton Terminal Complex (T.C.) with Freightliner back at one of there old haunts. The train comprising of 30 MHA/MFA EWS Coalfish wagons has just been propelled from the headshunt onto the loading point.
Later on in the evening the fully loaded train ran to Millerhill S.S., 3 hours 44 minutes early via a run round at Mossend. The ballast is eventually ending up along the Levenmouth Branch Line which is currently being reinstated.
A welcome sight indeed but also a rather strange one seeing a Freightliner Class 66 and even just a freight train back at Ravenstruther.
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Looking back on the part of the Cabot Trail I had just come from, Gulf of St. Lawrence on the right.
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The Cabot Trail is considered one of the world's most scenic road trips, with stunning views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, waterfalls, beaches, and the mysterious Cape Breton Highlands.
The Cabot Trail measures 298 km (185 mi) in length and completes a loop around the northern tip of Cape Breton Island. It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497.
The Green Block on Lexington Avenue in Elkhart, Indiana has a back door that is just amazing. It is my impression that this was taken from an old Victorian mansion that was torn down a while back and put in the Italianate style Green Block, otherwise known as the Smith Frye Building. Built in 1895, the building is part of the Elkhart Downtown Historic Commercial District:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhart_Downtown_Commercial_Histori...
The yellow brick is typical of that seen in Nineteenth century buildings in Elkhart and is known as "Chicago Common brick." I am not sure if this is the same as "Cream City brick" from Wisconsin but I have been told that it made its way as far as Elkhart but does not appear very often east of there in Goshen, IN.
when you see close shots like these,you can see how primitive earlier aviation was..and these guys were fighting a war like this..
Franka Solida IIIE with a Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar 80mm f/2.9 lens | Fuji Reala 100 film | Andreas Garcia
One week ago at this time, 80+ mph gusts were blowing around our home. After four days the power came back on. The yard is cleaned up and repairs are complete. It's so nice for life to be...back to normal.
~~~~~~~~~~~ Life after Category 4 Hurricane Irma - 9/10/17 ~~~~~~~~
Sunset afterglow ~ Summer '17 ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Broward County ~ Hometown ~ Coral Springs, Florida
(three more photos 'from this night' in the comments)
Hopefully a new job soon, but today is some interviews and reaching out. What do you think? Suitable interview attire?
An unfairly derogatory caption, to be honest. The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district in the City of London.
It was the first coffee house in London and was visited by the English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1660. It is now a Grade II listed public house (pub) and is set within a labyrinth of mediaeval courts and alleys.
It should be no surprise that an old place with such a name has historic links with the sugar trade and slave plantations of the West Indies and Turkey. There is a plaque on the wall which reads 'Here stood the first London Coffee house at the sign of the Pasqual Rosee's Head 1652.' Pasqua Rosée, the proprietor was the servant of a Levant Company merchant named Daniel Edwards, a trader in Turkish goods, who imported the coffee and assisted Rosée in setting up the establishment. The coffee house, which opened in 1652, is known in some accounts as The Turk's Head.
The building that currently stands on the site is a 19th-century public house. This pub's licence was acquired by Shepherd Neame and the premises were reopened after a restoration that finished in April 2009. Today, it features a wood-panelled bar with three sections on the ground floor, and downstairs an elegant restaurant.
I moved sideways into clouds and skies for this series. This could be a "hard hat" storm out east. Keep your "rock" umbrella as ready as I keep my rock skis ready for the early season. Finally, the fairgrounds really approached twilight's end for last summer's carny; I am ready for the rides to pop. This cloud was a feast of captures. Clouds do this as the atmosphere vastly expands after compressing, cooling and clearing the Rockies from the west. I liked this sky but there are degrees. I figured folks on the eastern plains, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, better go for the hard hats. Black is the new blue.
No global warming under here; no global warming under there! People won't continue to believe the TheRump's lies after FEMA is broke. This will soon be a thumper and those folks will need to flash the sign of the cross to the heavens. That fossil-fueled summer heated up our atmosphere and with 8% more atmospheric moisture trigger smack downs worl d wide! Insurance companies declare events as acts of god instead of global warming for obvious reasons. They don't have payouts if they can blame god. It's more important to stage a WWIII even before our regular scheduled mass extinction. Few southern conservatives are listening. "The extinction won't be televised," Gil Scott Heron. Well... scientists said the weather would be more violent as the climate warmed. The heating increased humidity in the atmosphere by 8%. Here we are, we have met the enemy and he is us.
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Na sequencia para vcs.
Vou ali do outro lado do Pacifico mas eu volto.
Off to the other side of the pacific. But I will be back.
I'm fresh back from a road trip through the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley. Whenever I head through Lone Pine, it's hard not to stop at the famous Mobius Arch for a quick sunrise shot. It's low hanging fruit, it's been shot to death, and it's challenging to get a moderately original composition at this spot. This morning's sunrise, however, lent itself to a slightly different framing than most people go for, and it balanced the composition nicely. While this photo could have easily been captured at f/11 or f/13 and maintained depth of field, I decided to focus stack four frames at f/8 for maximum detail at large print sizes.
IC 3100 and 9619 are seen with a test version of the IC's new black paint scheme. The units would head up a passenger special originating in Homewood. 10/03/87--Paul Meyer photo
Sorry to my Flickr Friends... I will be back soon and I will catch up with your wonderful images but I've been really poorly, yesterday was Mothers Day here in England, my favourite day of the year and my Son and Husband had so much planned for me and I missed the whole day as I was so ill and instead they took great care of me here at home. I was taken ill on Friday and by Saturday I realised I had the NoroVirus, yesterday came close to going to hospital as I was not recovering, I have been flat out and semi conscious with this terrible virus. Only today is my first day where I am starting to eat and drink again, feeling very weak and poorly and so I share an image I took last week and at some point in the next few days I will catch up with your images, thank you, Debbie :)
back to not so sunny England..
Nice to be fully back to myself though even without the sun.
just been into town a bumped into three lads who I dance with. seems I couldn't walk a hundred yards with a "hello Helen" 😊
back from austria.had a great week there and important, every bone is still working. there´re still some captures from last years late summer. a warm-up for the mind in a freezing cold time.
The back valley, the lost valley, the secret valley....
all names given to this place.
Taken in Infrared with a .9 ND filter and a 665nm filter.
After arriving back in Ringwood from the first trip of Steamrail's Ringwood shuttles, Steamrail's train was forced to be moved into the yard as a result of one of the five wooden carriages striking a piece of overhead wire infrastructure
The K's then spent a further few hours in the yard, with all remaining shuttles ultimately being cancelled, before the locomotives were given the green light to return back to Newport light engine, resulting in a rather unique tender-to-tender move on the mainline!
After spending a day in the yard at Ringwood, Steamrail's K100 (K153) & K183 make a return to Newport with 5 carriages less than they came with that morning. The K's are seen dropping down into the station at Nunawading on light loco move 0568 bound for Newport Workshops. 8/5/22
The carriages took a further few days to return to Newport, with an inspection of the train being undertaken by Metro Trains finding the carriages were not at fault for the incident. In the days after this the carriages were then finally returned to Newport by a V/Line N class.