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Hansestadt Lübeck GER
The Salzspeicher (salt storehouses), of Lübeck, Germany, are six historic brick buildings on the Upper Trave River next to the Holstentor (the western city gate).
Built in the 16th–18th centuries, the houses stored salt that was mined near Lüneburg and brought to Lübeck over the Stecknitz Canal. The salt was then shipped to several ports in the Baltic region, where the commodity was relatively rare, but was in high demand for the preservation of food. The salt trade from the late Middle Ages onward was a major reason for the power of Lübeck and the Hanseatic League.
Darst Road is known for its birds, but it’s also located in farm and pasture land. Waiting in the fog at the end of the road to see birds I could only hear, many cows began walking across the pasture up to me (or as close as they could get) in anticipation of a morning feeding. The yellow tag on their right ear has a date and the red tag in their left ear has the name of the ranch with two phone numbers. Cow. Commodity. Commerce. Consumption. Beasley, Texas.
Led to this abandonment and yet they are the reason this is still standing perhaps. If prices were higher, I think this would be bulldozed and farmed over.
Is tourism a modern form of commodity fetishism? Does it devalue the lives of many of the people living in these cities? The short answer - yes.
NYS&W engine 3018 leads 19 loads of asphalt through Syracuse, NY. The cars are going to Suit-Kote in Cortland, one of this railroad's biggest customers.
A rather scruffy looking TT114 leads 2196 through Tahmoor, with TT109 at the rear, heading for Cooks River with a load of aggregate stone from Marulan.
Introduced for coal working, the TT class are now spread across Pacific National still either on coal, or diversified into stone and intermodal duties, however where ever they are, they're still stained from coal.
Thursday 31st October 2019
This region around the historic portage connecting the Fox and Wisconsin waterways has always been associated with the fur trade. The French, British, and later the Americans did brisk business with the native peoples for this commodity. I see somebody is still carrying on with the trade.
Electricity and Lumber Drags... We'll save the others for a different hopeless section of the internet..
So close and yet so far away, when I woke up I went looking for activity on the grid; there was a 3QKDBJ 13 (H-VAWFRS3) at South Sacramento moving into position for a spot at Hammer Lane to sit and wait for the gridlock at El Pinal to clear up, as well as a Long Beach getting dragged out to Acampo. Then there was BNSF 7391 west holding the siding at James waiting for the Gypsum empties to get by before proceeding down the Canyon Subdivision with a fully loaded ten-thousand ton, six-thousand foot lumber yard on wheels which I thought was gonna be easy catch at either Craig or Mounkes; that was the wrong assumption train beat me to Mounkes by about ten minutes. So after flipping around and a quick jog down Highway 70 I landed at the south end of the siding at Pleasant Grove which had a maintainer working there, so no searchlights this time...
1105 and 1107 work 8468 loaded ore train from Cobar past XRN009 and co, loading at the Ulan Colliery.
Thursday 27th July 2023
Steel coils squeal through the curve at Indiana Harbor, moving south on the IHB main after having just crossed NS's Chicago Line.
A commodity that is getting harder to find in modern railroading-- LOGS! Albany & Eastern's hauler has just picked up a cut at the Crabtree, OR loadout and is heading back to Lebanon, where this job (and the railroad's operations) are based. 1841 is former SSW 8041. A far cry from racing intermodal trains across the desert, but happy to see this unit still working.
A variety of bulk commodities such as lumber, sugar, and sand all get transloaded at the yard in Landisville. Here, the 8651 pulls out a string of cars for spotting. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
Before my maternal grandfather (a severe alcoholic and wife abuser) died of lung cancer (he smoked), he managed to hold a job with the welfare department -- handing out government cheese and other commodities.
The governmental distribution of commodities, which was an integral part of LBJ's "Great Society," had a profound impact on every community in America. In-kind distribution of "commodities" was soon replaced by food stamps,but the impact was the same. The government had created incentives for "families" to have low incomes in order to qualify for free food (and housing), which in turn created incentives for "families" to exclude income-earning fathers, which in turn created single-mother families, which in turn created troubled children.
It was the exemplar of a government program whose unintended consequences caused incalculable damage to the very persons it was supposed to benefit. Fortunately, President Bill Clinton had the courage to tell the truth about this horrible system and essentially abolish it.
This sign is on the crumbling ruins of a building in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
CSXT L059 switches tank cars at Baker Commodities in North Billerica, MA. This customer recently came back online after the 2022 CSX-Pan Am acquisition.
I want to apologize if I have skipped some contacts...if only I had more time..it's an elusive commodity. Have a great Monday all day my friends!
Pacific National Intermodal 2PM6 with locomotives NR119-NR81 crosses Adelaide Metro/PTS passenger railcars 3111-3112 on non revenue transfer service 004A at Millswood. The Railcar set is looped for an oncoming revenue service rather than for the Intermodal which is on a separate network section.
Three types of trains meet on the quadruple-track thoroughfare that bisects downtown Birmingham, Alabama. The busiest railroad hotspot in Alabama, one can easily see upwards of 5 trains an hour here, if one's luck holds out. The two far tracks are part of CSX's Boyles Terminal Subdivision, while the two middle tracks are part of Norfolk Southern's Alabama Division. The two overgrown sidings at left are not in service. It's quite possible to see all four mainlines occupied simultaneously, or at the very least 3 out of 4, as shown here. A Union Pacific SD70ACe lends a hand to an eastbound Norfolk Southern manifest freight, while two CSX southbounds, a loaded coal and a stacker, wait for their turn to cross the interlocking.
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Norfolk Southern GP60 7109 was just beginning its short trek over the former PRR Panhandle with a bottle train as it pulled across CSX's former B&O main in Riverdale.
The train is a pretty hot one to catch around town-literally; It runs from Dolton to the Arcelor-Mittal Steel plant in East Chicago over the Indiana Harbor Belt.
The C&NW was my favorite Midwestern carrier from afar, but my pictures of it are precious and few. Here's an off kilter scene from
29 June 1989 at Wheaton IL of a coal train led by SD40-2
duo 6811-6878 in two paint variations.
Belt Railway of Chicago SD40-2 312 rests at 100th Street Yard in South Chicago. Coke hoppers, just delivered by the BRC, sit at KCBX Terminals in the background. Looming above everything is the Chicago Skyway (I-90) toll bridge.
every time meredith grey (grey's anatomy series ) said : pick me - choose me - love me !
i feel so bad cause by these words i feel like the world stops !
like all the humanity feelings go down .
i dunno why i feel these words make us just like any thing to buy
like we are soo cheap !
like a commodity !
I think if love dosn't raise us up, it isn't love at all
if the love makes us down and humiliates us so it is nothing about love !
it's about making our self so cheap and so available ..
if we force the ppl we love to love us , or choose us , if we begged them even if they don't want ..
isnt an insult ?!
let love raise us above every thing ,, let it improve our live and support us and not make things difficult
let it be the strongest point not the weakest .. !
it isn't love unless we feel much better !!
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With so many in storage due to the downturn in traffic, finding a "Barn" on a train in a sea of GEVO's, let alone leading, has become a scarcity. So when I saw that when E231 came through the St. Clair Tunnel with CN 2447, a 8-40CM, I figured I had to take the time to go and see. Thanks to 'Guy" for unknowingly motivating me to go shoot it, especially since I was the one who told him it was coming so he could shoot it.