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As seen here, they were digging up some concrete at the new drive thru park window, when in fact they need to replace *all* that concrete at the drive thru while they're at it! And my guess as to why they haven't finished the top of that front column: they're likely planning to attach the big end of a monster yellow eyebrow there that will whip across and over that somewhat oddly placed McDonald's front sign! I would love to be proven wrong, as I kind of like the "eyebrow-less" minimalistic look the building has in this photo instead, than you very much!
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McDonald's, 2000-built, Norfleet Dr.. near Getwell Dr., Senatobia MS
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A juvenile just beginning to show his adult plumage
green woodpecker ~ picus viridis
(uncropped and taken through a window)
When you drive on Highway 50 through southern Nevada, there is just NOTHING there! For hours and hours, there are endless barbed wire fences on both sides, no cattle that I ever saw, no cross roads, no towns ... nothing but the road in front of you with an occasional car or truck zooming along at 75 mph.
I really wanted to pull over and walk around in this landscape for half an hour at least and get a little taste of it, but as strange as it may sound - with all this open space - there was no easy way to pull over. Beside the road the dirt slanted downwards and you wouldn't want to get caught on a precarious rock or in a hole, especially with the occasional big 18-wheeler truck whizzing by. There were dirt roads here and there ... but they seemed to be private ranch roads and I felt like I might get shot for trespassing if I tried to walk my dog there! So I ended up being trapped between two endless lines of barbed wire fence with no option but to keep driving.
Until we finally hit a "rest stop," which really was simply an extra little paved area, nothing more. Blanca finally could get out on leash at least and explore. She quickly found something exciting as there were mysterious holes in the ground everywhere! Something, or someone, lived down there and she was going to dig them out! I let her dig for a while but did not really know what was down there, so eventually broke it off. I still don't know who was down there!
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An elderly Vietnamese woman digging for clams at low tide on a stormy summer's morning on Van Don Island, Quang Ninh Province.
Bucket-wheel excavator in the Hambach surface mine,
digging lignite, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Schaufelradbagger im Tagebau Hambach beim Abbau der Braunkohle. Wenn man bedenkt, daß diese mächtige Braunkohleschicht bis 2050 als CO2 in die Atmosphäre gelangen wird, fängt man doch an zu grübeln ...
This is the site for a proposed Harley Davidson dealership. They're moving right along. They may have some sediment control and drainage challenges as it's adjacent to a water tower, a new Mercedes dealership, a new nursing school, some apartments, a migratory path and a natural protected area, but so far they're doing great (insert stress cracks here).
Finnish forces who where already in Norway dig in for a possible Canadian assault. Canada please leave Norway, we do not want a war between Finland and Canada. If the Canadians attack us we will try to kick you out of Norway.
I got what you need, you feelin' lonely?
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I hope you mean everything that you told me
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If you miss me, just call me
You try to diss me 'cause you salty
Did this on my own, it's all me
I just wish that you would call me
Call me
I just wish that you would call me up
Wish that you would call me
- Call Me, NAV, Metro Boomin
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One last shot that I liked and figured belongs here in my Flickr collection.
I grew up in Rhode Island and the P&W was my "home road." Considering how small a state it is and how little freight railroading is left it's astounding that there are still places I haven't shot before.
But this is one!
Until last week I'd never shot a train on the former Moshassuck Valley Railroad, now little more than a mile long industrial lead colloquially known to railroaders as "The Mud."
Looking at this line as an outsider you wouldn't think much of it as it seems to be no more than any other old urban spur, but digging a bit deeper this line is so much more.
This was once the mainline of one of the nation's shortest of shortlines and the shortest of three such roads that maintained their independence through the late 19th and nearly all of the 20th centuries when the mighty New Haven was buying, leasing, merging, or crushing nearly every independent railroad in southern New England.
With credit to Edward Ozog's wonderful Rhode Island Railroads web site and Ronald Dale Karr's invaluable reference book "The Rail Lines of Southern New England" here is a bit of history.
Chartered in 1874 the two mile long Moshassuck Valley Railroad Company commenced operations in 1877 and ran from a main line interchange in Woodlawn, Pawtucket to Saylesville in the town Lincoln. It was built to serve the textile finishing mills of the Sayles brothers, but it was also a common carrier with a profitable freight business and for many years frequent passenger service. In fact until 1921 it ran up to 10 passenger trains a day with four stops on the 2 mile route.
The Sayles mills were the reason for building the MVRR and its major customer for most of its existence. Textiles to and from the Sayles Bleacheries, Lorraine Manufacturing Co. and Glenlyon Dye Works were a major source of traffic but there was also large amounts of coal for the mills and a variety of related products.
The textile industry in Rhode Island declined in the 1920's and 30's due to lower costs in the south and in 1960 Sayles operations ended. After 90 years being run by the Sayles family, the little road was sold to Standard Transportation in December 1967 and traffic remained relatively good as various light industries replaced the textile mills.
After 105 years of independent operations it was finally sold to its connecting carrier which by 1982 was the reborn Providence and Worcester. Nine years later the P&W abandoned the northern 3/4 of a mile of track north of the Higginson Avenue crossing where the MVRR's small yard and shop were located.
The modern day P&W continues to use the remodeled MVRR enginehouse to maintain MofW vehicles and a couple of tracks outside serve the last remaining customer on the line, Fortune Metals.
To learn more and see some fabulous images of the MVRR in its earliest days and right up to the end in the late 70s click this link:
sites.google.com/site/moshassuckvalleyrailroad/Home
In this telephoto view looking north we see P&W GP38-2 2009 switching beneath the gantry at Fortune Metals. The old MVRR office and shop is just out of sight to the right of the loco and in the foreground the dark shadow is the end of a gondola on the runaround track used for switching out this customer.
Lincoln, Rhode Island
Thursday January 9, 2020
Where I live now, we don't seem to have very many windmills so I've had to go digging into the archives!
A new building started in Thanon Si Lom, Bangkok.
The gaffer is the woman this time; but she may not be on the team - maybe an engineer/architect.
I’ve been trying to photograph these guys for six weeks - the security guards open the front doors only to staff and trucks. I had 15 seconds to take my pictures!