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John F. Bjorklund Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • May 9, 1987
CP Rail 5524 leads a train of box cars west through Milton, Ontario.
A CP extra west with a rare western GP9 leading climbs the hill west of London, Ontario at Hyde Park. The train is heading for a meet at Lobo siding with an RS18 and FP7A trailing on December 30, 1976.
A pair of SD40E helpers cling to the rear of 13E as it passes through Cresson. Although now on the downhill, the helpers still provide useful dynamic braking to keep train speeds in check.
Pallasian pine dominating the surrounding dry birch stand on the terrace of the Borgustan ridge near Kislovodsk
An early morning job running as Extra 774 west rips through Garnet with 774 leading 2230-A and only 11 cars on February 13, 1978. The SOO was burdened with more eastbound business than westbound at the time and about three evenings a week there would be an eastbound extra that would run with anywhere from 85-150 cars. This was business that couldn't be handled on daily freight 912 which was filled out to over 100 cars most days. Westbound business wasn't as heavy and the returning crew and power off the extra's would often have only a handful to 50 cars. The westbound extras normally did local work so 911 could be expedited but on this day it appears there was no local work just overflow off 911 with those big ACR chip battlewagons on the head pin.
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We find a VIA Rail extra west arriving at London, Ontario with a pair of FPA4's, the 6760 has lost the engineer side flag off the wooden staff the entire flag blown off on the fireman side. This train a positioning move for a scheduled eastbound London to Toronto run in a hour or so - May 27, 1979.
John F. Bjorklund Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • Feb. 21, 1987
Equipped with white flags to indicate this is an extra, unscheduled train, CP Rail SD40 No. 5512 pulls east through Lobo, Ontario.
Enveloped in remote Northern Ontario forest, an ONR ballast extra makes it's presence known with the venerable GMD SD40-2 putting on quite the performance. Just like when the '40 was fresh out of the shops in London a caboose brings up the tail.
A CMQ extra backs out of the yard at Brownville Jct. with whole train bound for Pan Am at Northern Maine Jct.
Some of the trees in Lassen National Park suffered from drought, heat or bug damage. Trees in this condition burn very easily - much of the eastern half of the park had already been burned in a huge forest fire. These days it is very common to find damaged trees in the western United States and Canada.
My Dad took this shot of Extra 712 West at Newberry on August 16, 1986. Lighting was poor but I thought it was pretty neat after looking at it awhile with the Conductor heading for the power with a lunch to go for his crew from Timber Charlie's Restaurant & Bar which is just west of the M-123 crossing that's behind Dad in this shot. 712 and 4418 have 13 cars and will soon be off for the next stop which appears to be Munising Junction by the trains make up. Much work done in Lightroom/Photoshop to bring this Thirty Thursday submission.
...or: interesting ways to dispose of your garbage.
Hasselblad 500C + Planar 80mm f/2.8, Lomography Potsdam in Rodinal 1+33 (approx. - whatever developer was left in 600ml of originally 1+25 solution after using it on three 135/36 films. I guess that each film consumes about 2ml of Rodinal during development)
n.b.: Lomography's Potsdam Kino 100 is the first of their films that meets some quality standards. Apparently it is new re-labeled Orwo UN54...
El proceso sigue, el imago que ha permanecido cabeza abajo, como descolgado, en un esfuerzo extra, como si fuera un ejercicio gimnástico, se volteará y agarrará con las patas delanteras a la exuvia. Esta acción facilitará que pueda sacar completamente el abdomen del "cascarón".
Este vuelco dura apenas tres o cuatro segundos después de estar en la fase de descanso entre 6 y 10 minutos. Cuestión de paciencia el conseguirlo.
Esta es la posición natural
Son las 8'37 am.
Fotograma completo sin recortes.
En el Coto. Villena (Alicante) España
The process continues, the imago that has remained upside down, as if off the hook, with an extra effort, as if it were a gymnastic exercise, will turn around and grab the exuvia with its front legs. This action will make it easier for you to fully hatch the abdomen.
This rollover lasts just three or four seconds after being in the rest phase for between 6 and 10 minutes. A matter of patience to get it.
This is the natural position
It's 8:37 a.m.
Full frame with no cropping.
In the Coto Villena (Alicante) Spain
12th June 2020:
... Known also as an African Lily in the UK.
The sun came out not long before lunchtime, so I grabbed my light raincoat and camera cap and raced over the road for a photo or two. The forecast is for more rain, so I didn't want to miss a minute of some extra vitamin D.
Everything was soaked in raindrops, which actually made getting a photo more fun, especially as the light, for the main part was great. Found this Agapanthus growing upside down, which just made it even better.
Today is also : International Falafel Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/international-falafel-day-june-12/
And for the Silly News It's : National Loving Day -
nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-loving-day-june-12/
Sound like a great day to celebrate.
Or : National Peanut Butter Cookie Day -
nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-peanut-butter-coo...
Oh, if only. :(
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A Saturday Westbound extra departed McAdam, NB in the early morning hours for Brownville Jct. Here the 90 car train is seen at Pea Ridge Rd with two SD70's for power.
ACR 104 and 100 lead 80 cars on an extra north down Northland Hill near Searchmont on February 14, 1987. Now this was how to spend Valentine's Day:)....no wonder I was single at the time. A rescan of one of my early attempts with my old scanner.
ADH45029 (ADH29) YX62FHA seen at Kensington, Brook Green working on route 9U towards Hyde Park Corner.
Locos like this remind me of the "Old, rare and obscure" column that once appeared in that magazine. Younger viewers will have to forgive me. Mere mention of that magazine greatly dates you. Like these Baldwins and the RTW facility here, it is long gone.
But anyway, these used to lurk at the terminal off 100th Street in South Chicago. I don't know what ever became of them.
February 1975.
Plow Extra WA-3 throws the snow at Old Bangor Road on 2/13/2017, during winter storm Orson.
The winter of 2016-2017, was probably the worst in recent years. The first major storm hit on Halloween, followed by back to back blizzards in December, dumping as much as two feet in places. Then in January we had storms almost every week.
This alone plugged the railroads up, since about the time they got dug out another storm hit and buried everything again.
Then on 2/13/17 the biggest storm of the year hit. Many places got well over 3 feet of snow. A friend was the engineer on POWA and met a ballast regulator at Leeds Jct as the storm was winding up. With snow from this system and the previous storms, snow in many places was as high as the walkways on the locomotives by the time they got to Waterville.
Following the storm, virtually every railroad ran plows and spreaders. This extra was running during the storm, first plowing to Hinkley I believe to rescue Sappi-3 at the mill.
Then back to CPF-110 and to Bangor, before doing the Bucksport Branch, then east on the main to Old Town and points east the following day. The train ended up derailing just outside Bucksport. By this point the paper mill was being scrapped and Pan Am decided to pull the remaining scrap cars out, before discontinuing runs to Bucksport, due to the extent of the damage.
Originally, a former MEC spreader was going to be used on the return trip. However the turntable at Waterville became snowed in, so the railroad settled for exMEC plow 90, the only Jordan wedge plow on the railroad. I ended up catching them at Old Bangor Road in East Newport and got some nice shots of the train blasting through the snow banks.
Pan Am only ran a few more plow extras after this, so I was lucky to catch it when I did. With storms being as weak as they are now and most of the snow fighting equipment being out of service, its unlikely we will see plows out in the near future.
Pan Am Railways
Train: WA-3
2/13/2017
East Newport, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
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I could use some extra arms while working on this project. I used 4 different light sources to create this image - 2 strands of lights, 1 led flashlight and a cheap clamp light with aluminum reflect covered with a gel. I am still fascinated and curious about what I can tease out of the bubble. So many ideas...