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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.
Lumber was once a booming backbone that supported numerous smaller railroads around the Pacific Northwest, but changes with the commodity and trucking competition have caused a virtual extinction of railroads dedicated to the transport of timber products. The St. Maries River Railroad is a survivor, clinging to what little rail market share remains in Idahoan forestry by hauling processed timber over the once-proud Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension from PotlachDeltic's mill in St. Maries to the Union Pacific at Plummer using Eisenhower-era Electro Motives. Near the middle of a late summer day, another St. Maries train of PotlachDeltic lumber lumbers over the timber stringers set more than 110 years prior across Benewah Lake. The pair of GP9s are "native" to the track they traverse, having both been constructed for the Milwaukee Road in 1959.
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 view of the north side of W. Main St. looking east toward downtown Decatur. In addition to the beautiful brick laid street, the most interesting building in this view is the restored Texaco gas station seen on the left. The 90-year-old station was saved from the wrecking ball in 2005 by Bruce Nims, a vintage Texaco gas station memorabilia collector and founder of an information technology consulting company. The restoration took six years to complete.
Decatur is the seat of Macon County. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in central Illinois. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production. The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College. The city was the original home of the Chicago Bears, known as the Decatur Staleys from 1919 to 1920, and as the Chicago Staleys in 1921.
Decatur's estimated population in 2021 was 69,646.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Looking at the base of Kamiak Butte County Park. Palouse Hills section within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Late June 2022.
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-250 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5750 K * Film Emulation: Fuji 800Z * Filter: Cooling Filter (80) * Elevation: 2,598 feet above sea-level
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 !!
* don't use it in any way
no one is allowed to use this photo or any piece of my photos. no themes no modifications ...etc
plz respect the rights .
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.
The Bourse de commerce (Commodities Exchange) is a building in Paris, originally used as a place to negotiate the trade of grain and other commodities, and used to provide services to businesses by the Paris Chamber of Commerce during the latter part of the 20th century. It has its origins in a circular wheat exchange built in 1763–67, with an open-air interior court that was later capped by a wooden dome replaced in 1811 with a copper one (supported by an iron skeletal structure). In a major reconstruction in 1888–89 much of the structure was replaced, although the layout remained the same and the dome was retained albeit adding glass and a mounted canvas.
Since 2021, the building has been the Parisian exhibition site of the Pinault Collection. The dome of the building is listed as a historical monument.
In 2016, the mayor of Paris offered François Pinault a 50-year lease on the Bourse de Commerce for a lump sum of €15 million, plus yearly fees. Shortly after, the Paris City Council approved the project to transform the building into an exhibition space for contemporary art, including pieces from Pinnault's private collection of more than 3,500 works valued at around €1.25 billion.
Through its exhibitions and events, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection offers a fresh and original perspective on a group of contemporary artworks that François Pinault has put together over the last fifty years as a collector and patron of the arts.
(Sources: Wikipedia and the Pinault Collection)
Well secured toilet tissue in a toilet along the "Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail," Wanship, Summit County, Utah.
Tanker Chemstar Masa (upbound)and Tugboat Dean Reinauer(downbound) on the Hudson River passing between Newburgh and Beacon, NY
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"The labor of a human being is not a commodity or an article of commerce."
Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
"Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail."
Abraham Lincoln
Labor day is not just for parties and festivals, but a time to remember the brave leaders and men and women of the labor movement who walked the lines, took the beatings and did the work that ended child labor, started the path toward employment equality for women, gave us the 8 hour day, 40 hour week, overtime, paid vacations, health care and the great United States middle class. Too many heros to mention but here are some favorites:
Eugene Debs
Saul Alinsky
Mother Jones
Walter Reuther
John Lewis
Joe Hill
Woody Guthrie
Cesar Chavez
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
Studs Terkel
The Labor Legacy Landmark
With its shining arch rising 63 feet above the ground, the Labor Legacy Landmark, "Transcending," draws attention to itself as one of the newest additions to the Detroit skyline. The piece, commissioned by the Michigan Labor Legacy Project and funded solely through donations from union members without the aid of public or corporate money, is designed to celebrate the history and contributions of labor. The only such monument in the United States, the Labor Legacy Landmark is the work of local sculptors David Barr and Sergio De Giusti.
Barr, a teacher of sculpture and an internationally acclaimed artist, created the "Four Corners Project," in which he placed four carved marble tetrahedrons at equidistant sites around the globe, in effect creating the largest sculpture ever made. The Italian-born De Giusti is best known for his representative relief works, on display at public institutions throughout the state and around the world. One of De Giusti's works,a nine-foot bronze freestanding relief, is prominently displayed at the main plaza of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Building.
Barr, whose work is primarily abstract and symbolic, sought out the collaboration with De Giusti in order to add a more intimate dimension to the project. Both men envisioned something other than the funereal, European tradition of famous leaders commemorated by solemn statues. Instead, they set out to create a space - an environment where viewers can enjoy art as they come to understand and appreciate the struggles of labor.
From afar, (the piece can be seen from Canada) the work's great stainless steel arch is its most visible aspect. The notched, rounded arch resembles the ubiquitous symbol of labor - the gear and serves as a testament to labor's spirit of exuberance and defiance.
"Transcending's" circular form also stands in contrast to the city's grid-like design as a symbol of inclusion. The bottom of the gear appears to merge into the earth. Barr says, "The world drives industry and labor, and industry and labor drive the world."
The arch rests on a circular, raised dais, and is partially encircled by seven granite boulders all split symmetrically in two. According to De Giusti "Stones have a great presence and have always been used to commemorate events. They are markers of a people and a generation." Brought from Vermont, the stones suggest a strong linkage to the past and their permanence creates a link towards our future.
The boulders' polished surfaces are adorned with De Giusti's bronze reliefs which depict the sacrifices and achievements of labor. His method of presenting objects pushing through and receding into the flat surface of the relief, suggests the embedding of fossils in stone. In direct sunlight, the bronze shines like a geode from within the split rock.
The piece also includes a twisting marble path. A tile at the beginning of the path is engraved with the words, "Labor's achievements are America's strength," and subsequent tiles enumerate those achievements - "Free public education," "Human rights," "Equality for women." Other tiles feature historical labor-related quotes such as "Without struggle there is no progress" (attributed to Frederick Douglas), and Martin Luther King's words, "The arc of history bends toward justice."
De Giusti's reliefs line the path at it spirals inward. At the spiral's center are two boulders - one displaying chains and the other displaying hands - directly below the apex of Barr's arch. A look straight upwards reveals that the arch is divided by a narrow gap at the top. This separation symbolizes how far labor has come and how far it still has to go. At night the arch is made whole by lights projecting from the two disconnected ends.
When the piece was still in the proposal stage, then-Mayor Dennis Archer told the Detroit Free Press, "What the labor movement is doing is reminding everybody who builds buildings that public art also has a place in the betterment of a city." In "Transcending" Barr and De Giusti have created not only an important piece of art but also a significant historical and educational setting designed to connect viewers to the past and inspire them to affect their future. - Nick Sousanis