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The impressive Puente Nuevo (New Bridge) is connecting the northern with the sounthern part of Ronda in Analusia.
Taken with an ultra wide angle after sunset.
Mária Valéria Bridge - between Esztergom (Hungary) and Štúrovo ( Slovakia)
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Album of Hungary: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711998...
My search for a new scenic locations continues. This is a quite far located village in my region. About 200 km of bad roads of clay. But what a good location this is. I don't remember so many birds and animals living wild and so close to the people. And people living so close to each other and so welcomed us, the aliens.
The most attractive subject in this village is a wooden bridge - not reliable but poetic. Especially in the early morning hour. We spent several hours walking there and back, watching the sun goes up and the company of swans that stopped for a sleep while we were there.
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With its nose pointed west towards Nakina and Winnipeg, ONR 313 slowly clicks and clacks the jointed rails alongside Ontario Highway 11, heading to Hearst on the former National Transcontinental Railway, with a lone SD75i on the head end.
ON 313-24
ON 2101
Milepost 74 ONR Kapuskasing subdivision
Moonbeam, ON
6 years ago in South Africa
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Not long before the TAG heritage unit crossed the Ohio Connecting Bridge westbound (previous image), this eastbound intermodal appeared. The train has just entered the Mon Line and is passing CP Isle where the Island Connector diverges from Main 1. The setting sun highlights both the train and the Pittsburgh skyline in the distance. The sun would fall below the hills to the west in a matter of minutes.
NS 22H:
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Finding the mud cracks in Death Valley is like going on a treasure hunt. And we struck gold on our trip.
a monkey's dna matches human dna 98% of the time...
interesting trivia- a human rights group in Vienna, Austria is demanding that gorillas be given the same rights as humans, except the right to vote.
VIA 186 snakes its way through the snow-covered wilderness of northern Ontario. The flag-stop service is a lifeline between remote communities. Connecting small towns like White River, Sultan, and Bisco, offering residents and travelers alike a chance to reach distant destinations that might otherwise be unreachable during the harsh winter months. Inside, the warmth of the cabin contrasts with the frigid world outside, as passengers gaze out at the endless expanse of snow, knowing that this train offers not just transportation, but a vital link between the northern communities that rely on it.
The need to visit this particular place came to me, while i was studying the cable car railway to the Janikowo soda plant. When tracing its route going from Janikowo we first see the station, where carts were separated between Inowrocław and Janikowo, then it crosses a lake and continues through the fields towards the Bielawy quarry. There is a catch however, as the cable car railway stops some 2 kilometers before the actual quarry/cement plant. How have I not noticed this before?
But the curiosities don't stop there. Naturally the cable cars have to get their load somehow, and to my great surprise and utmost amazement - this is done with a standard railway, which runs here from the cement plant, at a length of around 2,5km. At the end, the wagons are unloaded and the load is transferred to the cable car. Crazy!
I dug deeper. As it turns out, the station is reffered to as K1 (which is why I jokingly call it Masherbrum) and I found many reports of former workers, who talked about the railway on various forums. But... no pictures from here existed! The industry enthusiasts photographed the transloading facility itself, some bus-lovers shot pictures of busses with the station and cable car, which served as a background, but seemingly no railfan has ever step foot here. That made me curious, maybe the train doesn't run in the end? Checking areal photos from the place out of 3 different sources I found around 20 shots taken across the span of the past 15 years. Only around half of them had any traffic on this station, maybe that was why, maybe this doesn't run very often...
Nevertheless, me and a friend of mine from the region embarked on a journey. We came in the morning and... there it was, a train was just unloading on the station! Our excitement was short-lived though, as our car's tire had burst before we even reached it, which stopped us significantly. But no matter. It turns out that the train had been here for the rest of the day. It looks as if they only unloaded one wagon each hour (or even fewer). I think the train comes here only every 2 days and stays here for unloading.
To connect all the dots, as in the title, I need to add on another bit of information, which was also very interesting to me. The reports of workers, which I had mentioned earlier talk about EL2 locomotives being used to bring the cargo wagons here. Sure enough, one of the former catenary pylons is hiding just behind the locomotive on this picture, as the train is leaving K1 towards the quarry, headed by SM42-2083. Some of the pylons even retained their original designations and each one of them is marked with the designation "K1". I think this is the first picture published on the internet, which features this place and a train.
One last thing are the wagons. They are only used on this line and they are made up of the type 41W, which were manufactured in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (1952-1959) and Wrocław (1960-1964). The factories each had their own little details on carriages and this helped me determine that both the producers supplied the wagons to this industrial railway. My rough estimate is that the plant currently has around 100 such wagons in use, and they only are used for internal transports to K1.
I hope you enjoyed the trillogy about Wapienno's internal railways.
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…taken up Sale Fell, North Lakes in Cumbria, a good walk with fine views at every stage - a few choices of routes with connections too as you can see.…..
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Macro Monday's and the theme of "Knolling".
I quite enjoyed the Knolling theme that MM covered back in 2019 and although I left taking part late as usual I didn't really want to miss this week.
It was mainly a case of finding some items which would be suitable as a subject. The last time I used a picture hanging kit and after a little bit of searching I came across these cabinet connectors in my toolbox.
When we moved house and if we ever get rid of a cabinet or furniture item that is beyond redemption I have a habit of keeping screws, nuts, bolts or anything that is used to hold the parts together as they may come in useful at a later date. At least for this weeks theme they finally did.
After locating a white sheet of A4 I used a pencil and ruler to draw a 3 inch square and arranged the items inside. Then it was just a case of mounting the camera on a tripod above and cropping the image to a square once it was captured.