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CN 5642 East leads a long unit train of ethanol loads past control point East Rockford (Illinois) on the CN Freeport Subdivision on a rainy Sunday.
I took this picture because of the big glass front to this building, But it wasn't until i was post processing it in HDR Efex Pro that I noticed the reflection of the old red brick building and how they contrasted each other.
The stack of new control point signals is ready for installation at Necedah, Wisconsin on the Adams Line- in preparation for the Weston coal train contract which will begin at the beginning of the new year.
I'm not sure why that sign is there, the entire area is private and posted no admittance, and the only thing on the other side of the dirt track is the Pauper's Cemetery.
Note the overcast skies--I was lucky to catch this action before the bottom fell out.
I actually updated my train blog! Though not with this spotting. Yet.
The northbound Illinois Railway signals at the approach to the CN East Rockford interlocking at CN milepost 85.6 west on the Freeport Subdivision in Rockford Illinois.
CN 5481 and 2557 lead a mixed manifest freight eastbound across 20th Street and thru the Buckbee control point (CN milepost 83.55) in Rockford, IL.
A quick and easy way to establish rather good control points, or even a small control network.
The number of the point is written on the tape for future reference. Though I maybe should point out that this only is a temporary point.
The pink spot is the laser pointer integrated into the total station. It comes in handy in many situations.
"You just got dominated, toymaker."
"Take that, booksmarts!"
At the peak of daytime, a lone Engineer from Builders League United (BLU) stands guard, his goggled gaze focused on the distant control point. Unbeknownst to him, however, a Sniper from Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED) sits patiently as a fellow Soldier takes aim with his rocket launcher...
Not every trackside scene would be classified as "pretty". South Winnebago always seemed like it was a little cluttered to me. M346 makes for Maintainer Hill near the Oshkosh Swing Bridge a couple miles ahead.
An eastbound unit train of ethanol loads passes control point East Rockford on the Freeport Subdivision in heavy rain on a wintry Sunday.
this is my first try of a 360x180° full spherical panorama
No, I didn't forget to take enough pictures, the white spots in the image are snow...
However, I wanted to upload this image, because I hope someone can help me a little bit.
I use Hugin to add controlpoints and optimize them. If I add more horizontal lines the horizon becomes straight (at least as straight as you can see it in the picture) and the stiching errors become more (and vice versa). Any suggestions how to avoid this?
The second problem seems rather simple, but I didn't manage to solve it: how do you shoot a full spheircal panorama without having your shadow in the image?
BNSF 6427 and CN 5710 westbound on the CN Freeport Subdivision at the East Rockford control point and interlocking (with the Illinois Railway) at CN milepost 85.6 in Rockford, Illinois. Following the CSX buffer car is a unit train of empty ethanol tankers. Just ahead the train is about to duck under the historic 1901 Seminary Street timber-stringer bridge and then cross the Rock River.
Ohio Veteran's Memorial - Clinton (Summit County) Ohio USA
Photography Voice Photo of the Day - June 11, 2010
CN 5799 and CN 2568 lead an empty ethanol unit train westbound past the Behr Iron and Metal siding and the East Rockford control point and interlocking (with the Illinois Railway, Rockford Division) at milepost 85.60 on the CN Freeport Subdivision in Rockford, Illinois on a cold and overcast early January afternoon.
A survey monument at Coit Tower in San Francisco. January 2009. This monument was placed by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey agency in 1954.
I was about to label this as a benchmark, but that is not correct. Benchmarks are survey monuments of highly precise elevation, used to measure and survey elevation or height above mean sea level. But this is a horizontal control station, used to survey / establish horizontal locations (latitude and longitude, or other systems of x and y coordinates) on the Earth's surface.
This disk station is named "PLAZA" and "HT3075". You can get detailed data on this survey marker from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey data. Try this link: www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=HT3075
Looking at the data sheet may give you some idea of how this station is used in mapping. From this point, angles to other visible survey markers are precisely measured with survey equipment. Through triangulation and other mathematical calculations, precise locations of the network of control points is determined. The datasheet shows other nearby survey points that were used in this way, including the Alcatraz lighthouse, the north and south piers of the Golden Gate Bridge, points on the Bay Bridge and Treasure Island, a point on the Ferry Building, a beacon on a breakwater in Berkeley, etc.
Long Beach CA USA, 25 November 2023
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DIGITAL MONOCHROME - Nikon D90 DX format DSLR, AF-Nikkor 28-85mm. Processed and converted to grayscale with Paint Shop Pro 2022.
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Grain cars zoom westward on the CN North Division, Freeport Subdivision in Rockford Illinois. In the background is the giant Behr scrap metal facility. The signals face south onto the Illinois Railway which intersects the CN here at the East Rockford interlocking (CN milepost 85.6).
The signals at CP LF366, the Main Street hold signals, are some of the few remaining searchlights in the Houston area. These date back to the days of the SP.
Houston, TX
March 6th, 2016
A unit train of empty Midwest Ethanol Transport empties passes under the historic Seminary Street bridge at milepost 85.6 on the CN North Division, Freeport Subdivision. The 2-lane road bridge was refurbished in 2008. It sees a daily traffic volume of over 4,000 vehicles.
The IR Flag Center-Rockford local backs off of the CN Freeport Subdivision main and into the Behr Iron & Metal spur for its nightly switching duties in Rockford, Illinois. Two train crew ride the rear of an open top hopper carrying the reporting marks BIMX for Behr Iron & Metal. In the lower right foreground is the IR southbound lead. This is CN milepost 85.6 which is the East Rockford interlocking with the IR and a Control Point for CN.
A CN westbound train makes its way through the snow at East Rockford interlocking on the CN North Division, Freeport Subdivision at m.p. 85.6 in Rockford IL.
I thought it was interesting that there's a surveying control point atop Pike's Peak. I'm sure the survey crew had a fun time getting up there!
New PTC system antennas recently installed at control point Buckbee (20th Street) on the CN in Rockford, Illinois.
Post processed in HDR Efex Pro using Grannys Attic preset, adjusting warmth to +15 and using Control Points to enhance the building and clouds.
CN 8894 and 2721 lead a manifest freight train westbound at c.p. Buckbee (CN milepost 83.55) on the CN Freeport Subdivision in Rockford, Illinois.
Wooster (Wayne County) Ohio USA
Wayne County Courthouse District ** (NRHP added 1973 - District - #73001551)
Q311 approaches the south side of Columbus OH between the town of Ashville and controlpoint of Lockbourne. This photo is only available with a telephoto lens because its field of view fits between overhead wires.
Q311 runs daily from Russell KY to Avon yard in Indianapolis IN, and switching Parsons Yard in Columbus.
2020 06 16 0909hrs CSX #Q311 WB Manifest 5349, 3308, UP8748, Lockbourne - Ashville OH (Large)
The Furball (Freeport-Burlington local) works at the West Rockford control point/interlocking at milepost 86.70 on the CN Freeport Subdivision in Rockford, Illinois using GTW 5852 for power. The crew is building a huge train in the CN Rockford West Yard to take back to Freeport. That is the infamous Amerock building in the background and the suspension pedestrian bridge over Kent Creek at Tinker Swiss Cottage in the foreground. By most accounts this is the site where Rockford was originally settled in 1834.
CN 2839 leads 5 other engines and a 440 axle mixed manifest freight westbound on the CN Freeport Subdivision at the East Rockford control point (CN milepost 85.6 west) in Rockford, Illinois just after sunset.
Processed initailly with HDR Efex Pro then put through Silver Efex Pro 2 using push process (N +3.0) preset and a control point on the church spire adjust the brightness to 14%, amplify whites to 80% and amplify blacks to -14% to reduce the prominence of it. I then add a grain effect, Kodak P3200 TMax Pro, decreasing the grains per pixal to 77. I cropped the picture so the tracks in the field ran in from the bottom left corner towards the spire which is set just of centre and a vignette to aid in emphasis of the spire.
Pulling up just short of the diamond so the conductor can work out which switch to throw.
I actually updated my train blog! Though not with this spotting. Yet.
Norfolk Southern intermodal train 212 is eastbound on the NS Lehigh Line at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on April 16, 2015. EMD SD80MAC 7211 leads two General Electrics as the train passes through CP-PHILLIPSBURG, where the NS Washington Secondary ties into the Lehigh Line, on its journey from Atlanta, Georgia, to Croxton, New Jersey.
Clinton (Summit County) Ohio USA
This 100 foot-long wall of solid black granite is inscribed with the names of the 3,095 Ohioans who gave their lives in the Viet Nam War. The statue is a tribute to Gold Star Mothers.
Two shots posted of same image - one with control points and warping...which points out of the two shots do you like and not like.
I didn't like the sky in the top right corner so I cropped some of it out and toned it down in the control points version.
I also didn't like the smaller building on the left so squared that up....which lost me the big flower pot thing on left side.
The lighting on the grass was too central so I spread it out and up on the control points shot....I also greyed the clouds on the left with some more control point work.
There are some other control points but do they matter to your eye or not?
Post processed in HDR Efex Pro using Grannys Attic preset, adjusting warmth to +15 and using Control Points to enhance the building and clouds.
CSX 673 and 536 approach the East Rockford control point west bound at mile post 85.60 on the CN Freeport Subdivision in Rockford, Illinois. The consist is mostly a unit train of empty ethanol tank cars with a few pieces of manifest freight mixed in. This is the former site of the IC/CB&Q diamond.