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Warwick, Southern Queensland and it's early morning when we find a couple of seniors waiting for the bus. I am not sure if Haidley's Panoramic Coaches runs regular transport services or day tours from Warwick, its website is non-committal. I suspect the latter.
Anyway, let's hope this couple had a lovely day wherever they went, Toowoomba to the north for shopping perhaps or Stanthorpe to the south for some wine, cheese, olives, chocolates, fruit and all the rest the Granite Belt of Queensland has to offer.
Just been to the Cinema to see Banshees of Inisherin; not sure what to make of the film; the jury is still out on that one.
What does every good Canadian T girl do on a dull day?
She goes to the Bank and gets some money $$$ to go shopping with. That's what she does!... *lol**
Heck if it's going to rain what else should I do?
So off I went on a spending spree.
Anyhoo girls the day started out quite dull but the Sun came out of hiding after an hour or so and it got warmer which made it more user friendly for taking Vids and photos without a coat so I could show this nice form fitting dress off and as we all know Photos are what keeps us girls coming back for more are they not?
For Steam Sunday here's another from my day out in the cranberry bogs of South Carver.
Like many people of a certain age who grew up in Eastern Massachusetts or Rhode Island a visit to this place was a right of passage, particularly during the holiday season. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of cold nights, warm wooden coaches, and twinkling lights beneath stars, and along the bogs of cranberry country. Edaville Railroad was a special place for generations, and it had been more than 35 years since I last visited. Named for its founder, Ellis D. Atwood, who did so much to save the unique two foot gauge equipment, Edaville was later purchased by Nelson Blount of Steamtown fame after Mr. Atwood's tragic death. When Blount also died young in an accident their spirit and dream lived up through successive owners until finally foundering in the early 1990s. Despite most of the classic two foot gauge equipment being repatriated to Maine and the original five and a half mile long loop around Atwood Reservoir being cut back to only two miles Edaville has survived.
For the first time in 35 or more years I returned thanks to the suggestion of a friend for a fun little photo charter featuring two steam locomotives, sponsored by the railroad and coordinated by Bill Willis of Precious Escapes Photography (make sure to give him a like or follow if you don't already). The star of the show was Edaville #3, an 0-4-4T Forney type locomotive built by Vulcan Locomotive works in 1913 for Maine's Monson Railroad. It ran on the six mile long pike from Monson Junction to its namesake town until the railroad's demise in 1943, the last common carrier 2 ft gauge railroad in operation in the US. Following the road's abandonment, #3 operated at the original Edaville Railroad for nearly 50 years, and was part of the original collection of equipment that migrated to the then new Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum in Portland following Edaville Railroad's closure. #3 has been a frequent visitor to other 2 ft gauge recreational railroads in New England when not in Portland and returned to the reestablished Edaville Railroad a few years ago where it continues to operate.
To learn more check out these links:
mainenarrowgauge.org/collection-roster/
Here she is leading a four car freight consisting of three flat cars around the outer end of the shortened loop, and the original five mile long loop once came in just out of frame to the left. For a small locomotive weighing in at about only 17 tons, she sure puts on quite a good show! The cars (three of them at least) recently arrived from South Africa where they once operated on the now closed Avontuur Railway, which at 177 miles was the longest two foot gauge railway ever built. If anyone has more history of these specific cars I'd love to learn more about them.
Carver, Massachusetts
Sunday December 22, 2024
Ended up with some time for myself and decided to go for a coffee and some shopping. I was so so nervous but took the plunge and managed to go to the train station at morning rush, Starbucks, Burlington, Nordstrom rack and finally DSW. I unfortunately didn't get pics from everywhere but some are to follow. Tried lighter makeup for the day. Hope that it was ok.
I knew it had been a long time since I'd last had a good look around Lichfield. However, it was not until I loaded this image that I realised just how long it had been. On my last visit I'd taken a photograph from this very location but this time I noticed a tree obscuring the view of the Cathedral. The last time I'd been here that tree didn't exist and I remembered when I'd taken the photo': to my astonishment it was the late 1970's and I'd not long bought my first SLR camera - where does the time go?
Just 33 of the many photos takens on an excellent round of the Carneddau - Pen ye Ole Wen, Carnedd Dafydd, Carnedd Llewelyn, Pen yr Helgi Du - followed by an evening stroll to the top of Tryfan.