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Here's how it started:
'A few decades after the Portuguese colonised Madeira in 1420, they developed a system that differed in some respects from anything that had gone before. By felling the forests after which they named the island (madeira is Portuguese for wood), they created, in this uninhabited sphere, a blank slate – a terra nullius – in which a new economy could be built. Financed by bankers in Genoa and Flanders, they transported enslaved people from Africa to plant and process sugar. They developed an economy in which land, labour and money lost their previous social meaning and became tradable commodities.'
Credits: G. Monbiot
With a lockdown in place it is against the rules for me to go to places I like to shoot, so I though I would try to create a series called Isolated creativity. The series is not intended to be a diary but a way of documenting thoughts and emotions via photography.
This one is about Dominic Cummins, his trip to Durham and the way he tests is eyesight! It is also about our trust in politicians in general which seems to be an ever reducing commodity.
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.
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
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.
1105 and 1107 work 8468 loaded ore train from Cobar past XRN009 and co, loading at the Ulan Colliery.
Thursday 27th July 2023
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...
Steel coils squeal through the curve at Indiana Harbor, moving south on the IHB main after having just crossed NS's Chicago Line.
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.
Corporations in the palm oil industry are making big money on this very lucrative commodity at the cost of indigenous people and nature. Indigenous communities are displaced and their water sources polluted. Lush ancient forests are cut down resulting in biodiversity loss. Increase in greenhouse gases emissions contributes to global warming. PNG currently ranks as the third biggest exporter of palm oil globally after Indonesia and Malaysia.
Palm oil industry attracted more people to the Kimbe Bay region and that puts more stress on marine life. PNG reef is considered the best-preserved underwater world for now.
Walindi Plantation Resort benefits from both, palm oil and from organising diving tours for international tourists.
Kimbe, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, September 2019
A rare commodity in these depressing, destructive and negative days.
Try and combat the sense of doom and despair which pervades our lives in these so called modern times.
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.
When people hear about the city of Miami they usually think about Miami Beach/South Beach, the rich and famous, and luxury high rises, but there is a lot more to Miami than just that. There is railroading in Miami and a significant industrial scene. CSX and FEC both work Miami Industries, but today I focused on CSX, specifically CSX Y322, today's Downtown Job, which works a heavily industrial area in the middle of Miami moving various commodities. Being that the track is located in an industrial and urban area, and also sees use only a few times a week, the track and right of way aren't necessarily in the best of conditions making for some interesting railroading scenes.
Y322 is seen here heading back west with their train with an ex Clinchfield/ex-Seaboard GP38-2 with downtown Miami high-rises in the distance. This track was the former mainline to and from the Seaboard Air Line's Miami station, located near downtown Miami.
Time has been a scarce commodity to me lately. I've been busy.
I'm afraid that the photos from the Oregon Coast and California Redwoods are going to take a back seat to the photos that I'll be taking on my visit to Iceland in a week or so, and so I will be trying to post more this week. Stay tuned.
Here's a sweet view of the beach at Pistol River near Brookings Oregon during a sunset.
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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.
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.
This is the eastern edge of the Syrian desert that the Iraqis call the Western Desert. It is also described as a plateau and historically has been the home to various Bedouin tribes. I have mentioned before that I went to Syria quite by accident when I planned a trip to go to Petra. Syria became my favorite country when I compared my experience there to the time I spent in Jordan and Lebanon.
Recently our Public Broadcasting station aired a movie/documentary on Gertrude Bell. I was enthralled. Have you heard of her? She was a British woman born to an aristocratic family in 1868, She evolved into one of the most extraordinary women of her time.
Her story begins when was invited to Iran by an uncle and fell in love with "the east." So much so that she embarked on many excursions there. She eventually stayed in Iraq permanently after WWI ended. She began her trips though the region by exploring the Syrian desert after asking her father for enough gold to hire a caravan of a dozen or more camels and servants to take her on her journey. Her first journey turned into many more.
Not only did she brave the harsh elements of the desert, but she learned Arabic and the ways of the Bedouins, Their world became hers. She was accepted because the men thought of her as one of them. The English government eventually saw her as a huge asset when WWI engulfed the region. She was deemed an expert and she was recruited to help them occupy the area of Iraq that they had conquered during the war. Ms. Bell reinvented herself as a diplomat and then as an archaeologist who helped the people of Iraq set up their first museum.
In the end, she expressed her conflicted views of her country's involvement in the far away land. Should they be there? What were they accomplishing? She was fully aware of the business interests that the West began to have in the area. America and Europe saw oil reserves and knew it was the commodity needed to control the new age of automobiles and airplanes. This was not why she had chosen Iraq as her home and did not like to see the people she had grown to love be exploited.
Gertrude Bell died in 1926 of an overdose of sleeping pills in Iraq. She left behind the photos she had taken, the brilliant letters that she wrote to her family back in England and a place in the history books as the woman who helped create the Middle East we know today.
The film, "Letters from Baghdad" incorporates her marvelous photos along side of moving pictures taken of the area. When I saw one photo, I thought, " I have seen this landscape before." (Devoid, of course, of the cafe sign.) I must say a feeling of great wonderment came over me, pondering the fact that unknowingly, I had in some MINOR way, followed the a route of this intrepid adventurous woman.
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.
Goole 12 April 1982
Built in 1964 by Bodewes SW 'Volharding' NV, Foxhol (yard no. 160) as HARDY MERCHANT for M.W. Hardy & Co (Mercantile) Ltd of London. Sold in 1972 to R.D.Harbottle (Mercantile) Ltd. Sold in 1973 to Comfin (Commodity & Finance) Co Ltd and renamed CARDA PRINCESS. Sold in 1976 to Robert A. Glass and renamed ARGUS PRIDE. Sold in 1981 to John F. Wilkinson without change of name.
Sold in 1982 to Latam Shipping SA of Panama and renamed ARGUS S. Broken up at Naples during 1985.
Scanned from an original monochrome print.
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.
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.