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Crossing Into Tennessee after passing Paint Rock. Photographed with a Canon EOS 3 and a Canon 40mm f/2.8 on Ilford HP5+ film developed in Kodak HC-110 1+63.
Crossings
Part of an exhibition @OSCC13 & InWorldz
MetaTrame Project-PralineB.
Photos are taken in Dakar, Senegal & in the metaverse.
Yep, same location as yesterday, but just about the only local spot that is ok at this time of day that is relatively shadow free! 66528 passes Norwood Crossing with a late running 6Y11 1200 Gainsborough Trent to Stapleford, 30th December 2014.
This was the last train I shot in Laredo before starting the long drive back to Houston and the flight home after an epic solo adventure last spring. About 40 minutes after CP 2816 made its historic crossing south into Mexico it was back to business as usual as four big UP units led by SD70ACE 8317 (EMD blt. Feb. 2005) step out over the Rio Grande with train MPBMX 27 (Pine Bluff, AR to CPKC de Mexico in Laredo). Sharp eyes will note the US Customs and Border Patrol car sitting along the bank just beyond and below the bridge keeping an eye on every train that crosses the river.
I've always had a fascination with rail border crossings and photographing trains crossing to or from Mexico has long been on my wish list, so what better excuse was needed than this?! Among the half dozen active rail crossings none is busier than this one, which also happens to be the first between the two nations dating from shortly after the 1881 arrival of the Texas Mexican Railway from Corpus Christi lwhen the then 3 ft narrow gauge built the first rail crossing over the river here. The Tex Mex came under the control of the Mexican government which held the 162 mile long line from the Gulf Coast in trust. The line was standard gauged in 1902 and the present 1275 ft long combination deck and thru truss span was built in 1920.
Though owned by the Tex Mex most traffic to and from the bridge moved via the Missouri Pacific Railroad which traces its history back to 1881 when the International and Great Northern Railway arrived in Laredo from San Antonio not long after the Tex-Mex opened. The shortline's sleep history all changed in 1996 when the Mexican government privatized its national railway system and awarded one of three concessions to a joint venture between Kansas City Southern and Transportación Maritima Mexicana which operated the railroad as Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM). At the same time the UP was acquiring the SP and as a merger condition little Tex-Mex (which KCS had bought a 49% interest in one year prior) was granted trackage rights to Beaumont, TX and a connection with KCS. By 2005 KCS had bought out its partner and controlled 100% of Tex-Mex and TFM which it renamed Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (KCSM).
Finally on April 14, 2023 the Canadian Pacific Railway completed its acquisition of Kansas City Southern and its subsidiaries creating the CPKC, the first tri-national railroad with a 20,000 mile network stretching from Maine and Montreal to Vancouver and south to New Orleans and southwest to here and on to Monterrey, Mexico City and Veracruz on Mexico's Gulf coast and Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific. In front of the span can be seen the temporary construction bridge and some of the new girders for the parallel second main bridge that CPKC is building totally with private funding. With volume tapped out at 26 trains per day this span is projected to permit a doubling of that train count. This sure is a far cry from the days of the little known and sleepy Tex-Mex Railway, but assuredly William Jackon Palmer is looking down with a smile that his vision of a century and half ago has become a reality beyond even his lofty dreams.
Here's the official railroad press release on the project:
www.kcsouthern.com/media/news/news-releases/kansas-city-s...
Laredo, Texas
Thursday May 30, 2024
Relief signalman Nick Bowlting is on duty at Moulinearn on 23 May 1994. Edith, the resident crossing keeper, was given the luxury of a 'half rest day' when other wages grade staff covered the crossing duties, working from a portacabin beside the A9.
The crossing had changed little since 8 September 1953, when a relief porter from Perth, on crossing keeper duties, opened the gates to allow a tractor and trailer to cross without obtaining permission from the signalman at Ballinluig North box.
An Inverness to Perth freight train struck the tractor on the crossing, killing the tractor driver and causing fatal injuries to a man riding on the trailer.
Grand Central 43467 heads 1A61 0830 Sunderland-London Kings Cross, and is photographed at Anglers crossing, near Offord D'Arcy, Cambridgeshire. 9th August 2014.
Virgin Pendolino crossing the A5 at Denbigh Hall in between Bletchley and Milton Keynes. In the background the large building under construction is the football stadium that is now the home of the MK Dons
This is the river Don Bridge near Pontop Crossing on the Stanhope and Tyne Railway near Brockley Whins station, a favourite trainspotting location for me in my childhood. The first train from Tyneside (Gateshead Greensfield) to London (Euston Road) ran along this line on 18th June 1844 and it was also the route of the famous Tyne Dock to Consett iron ore trains. Today the track is lifted and only the bridge remains but it's still a special place in railway history even if the 9f is my Kitmaster model evolking nostalgic memories of the indian summer of steam in the 1960s. Light engines on this line would be heading for South Pelaw to bank ore trains up the hill to Consett
Tsingy de Bemaraha is a geological top attraction of Madagascar. The road to/from Morondava is very long and difficult and only accessible with jeeps. You have to cross 2 rivers by ferry one being Tsiribihina and the other Manambolo.
This is just one of my photos about Textures and Shapes in Nature. You can find the complete portfolio at www.nicolasalviphotography.com/textures-and-shapes-in-nat... Please have a look, comment, give me your two cents and suggest improvements!
H55 makes its trip down NJ Transit’s Main Line, crossing the NY/NJ state line into Mahwah, NJ, with NS GP38-2 #5618. This train would work two customers in Paterson, before heading back west.
The Sheppey Crossing is a bridge which carries the A249 road across The Swale (a strait in the North Sea), linking the Isle of Sheppey with mainland of Kent.
People crossing Fredrichstrasse in Berlin...the whole city is crossing the lines with his past and going into a brilliant future
I loved driving around Strathaird Peninsula, beautiful scenery, great narrow winding roads, loads of sheep, highland cattle, horses and birds of prey.
Strathaird is the peninsula on the south coast of the Isle of Skye that lies between Loch Slapin and Loch Scavaig. The smallest and least populated of the main peninsulas, it is reached via the scenic B8083 road which winds its way through the Red Cuillin Hills, around the head of Loch Slapin and through the hamlets of Torrin, Kirkibost and Elgol.
With rocky cliffs, sea caves, the Small Isles offshore and abundant marine wildlife - including White-tailed Eagle and Otter - the coastal scenery is a real attraction. But perhaps even better than this, the west of Strathaird provides the best views possible into the Black Cuillins, Britain's most ferocious mountains.
NJT ALP46A 4636, wearing a PRR-inspired scheme, leads train 8433 across the Millington Trestle and into Basking Ridge, NJ. Below the bridge is the Passaic River, which this train has already crossed two other times on its journey from Penn Station, New York to Gladstone Yard. June 3, 2020
The Northampton-Market Harborough line looking north from Boughton Crossing on 1 July 1981. The Northampton and Lamport Railway has now restored the track to a point just the other side of where the signal box is in my picture, and a new station is now being built on the right hand side of the track here.
The Northampton-Market Harborough line was closed in August 1981, a few weeks after the date of my photo.
I try to post one of my railway photos every day to my Flickr account. This was posted on 3 April 2020.
School crossing guards are a part of our community as they go about their duties, keeping elementary school children safe on their way to and from school.
Whenever I have spoken to one, they have been friendly and polite and I see children and their parents treating them like friends or family.
I have often thought that their hours are challenging. No matter the weather, they have to be on duty all school days, morning and afternoon, as well as during the lunch hour. This split shift must really occupy their day, preventing them from making other commitments, and yet I suspect they only get paid for the hours on duty.
Weather is sometimes a challenge and yet they must always report for duty.
This crossing guard has a folding chair to take the strain off when children are not present, and a cup of coffee to warm him on a cold February day.
The "Devilishly Good" sign is a chicken restaurant, but I bet it applies equally to the coffee the crossing guard is sipping.
Trail 400 crossing Gorton Creek, in the Columbia River Gorge.
66425 heads out over the River Usk at Newport heading 4M36 18:58 Wentloog Freight Terminal Freightliner to Daventry.
Cyclist negotiates the crossroads of Brick Lane and Hanbury Street on a tranquil summer morning. Spitalfields, London.
More pictures of Spitalfields and Whitechapel can be found in my book: "Walk to Work: from the City to Whitechapel"