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Yes I know, it's another AI photo. But Bob www.flickr.com/photos/bobslivemodels/ did something for me.
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A little fantasy per se.
Back in the day I flew a lot, especially on Delta. So, over time, flying one end of the country to the other, I became a 2 Million Miler with them and a majority of the time got bumped up to first class.
One look at this photo and I wanted to be her. I love the satin dress, the shiny black nylons and black high heeled CFM stilettos.
It would be one hell of a fantasy to be in first class like this. Every man on the flight would be fantasizing about me and how it would be with me.
By the way, please pay no attention to my right hand. It's cramped up from letting the pilot experience my fellatrix skills before takeoff.
I wonder where the fight attendant is? I need a stiff drink! No pun intended... well maybe... yes, definitely!
Looking at the Armidale end of the train - an immaculately clean three-car Northern Tablelands Xplorer NP44 makes its first stop of the Journey at Uralla. EC2527 is at the lead while EA2507 brings up the rear.
One year ago today I was here alongsode the Union Pacific Railroad's Green River Subdivision...a supposedly dead railroad. This is one of three trains I shot just east of the siding at Thompson Springs in the span of thirty minutes!
But to paraphrase what the great Mark Twain wrote from London in 1897, in the year 2019 the report of the old Grande's death appears to be a bit of an exaggeration!
And while it is true that the old D&RGW Utah Division lost it's last through manifest trains a couple months ago and hasn't hosted any regular intermodal ot autorack trains in more than a decade the Grande's route across the desert still has a role to play! Unbelievably we shot 7 different trains on the old Rio Grande this day and missed 4 more....all in daylight! Here is one of them, a heavy loaded GREX slot train. And clearly we were a bit lucky as two of these three are extras and one is a once a week job....better to be lucky than good, right?! This was the third of three trains here. The first was a westbound BNSF unit empty crude oil train who met two eastbounds at Thompson siding, the Potash local first and then this train right on their tail.
I waz standing on a rise just east of CP RG527, the east end of Thompson Siding near the tiny hamlet of Thompson Springs in Grand County, Utah.
Thompson is the high point on this stretch of desert railroading some 1000 ft higher than Green River 25 miles to the west. The grade drops down in excess of 1% in both directions from here. The view to the west on the main offers a nice s-curve, the old Grande pole line, and the colorful Book Cliffs. This eastward view behind me offers a wide sweeping curve and a view down across the Castle Valley toward the La Sal Mountains. It is a really great spot to just watch trains...when you have some!
Thanks to John Shine for the train line ups and to Frank Keller and John Tarble for making a fine choice. What a classic spot!
I can't think of a better way to celebrate 150 years of the Union Pacific's completion than spending the day on that REAL railroad that will always bleed black and gold regardless the color of today's units!
Thompson Springs
Grand County, Utah
Friday May 10, 2019
We're decending into Tekarra Valley from the ridge along Amber Mountain on the Skyline Trail. An hour earlier these peaks had no trace of snow. A brief flurry and driving winds timed its arrival perfectly with our arrival at this spectacular section of the Skyline Trail. It stopped almost as quickly as it arrived, revealing the gift it left behind.
Tech Details:
Nikon D300
18-200mm VR lens @ 18mm (VR turned on)
No filter
1/40 sec @ f6.3
Taken @ 4:12pm
ISO 400
Hand held.
The larger view is always better... B l a c k M a g i c or as a Slideshow
Great Falls before sun-up. There was just enough light to catch the new snow dusting the trees -- almost left the scene with frostbite, waiting for the sun to rise.
First Manchester: 66891 (MX55 UAA) a Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE, painted in corporate livery. This vehicle is captured here on Rochdale Road on Service 17 heading for Manchester Shudehill.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 8th March 2017.
Ref No. 0039142
Can't get a photo closer than this. A freshly painted First Leicester inside the depot ready for today's open day.
no. MX05 CFV
Although I may not consider this photo as one of my most compelling images but it was my first of firsts. It was one of my firsts out of the hundreds of frames I did when I was still starting out photography. Shot using a standard 18-135mm kit lens, it was my first successful manual exposure as far as basing with the histogram is concerned. This image inspired me to pursue my passion in photography---it’s something that I would treasure for it changed my perspective in this craft.
First Student Canada 080569 is a 2008 Girardin G5 bodied bus on a Ford E-450 chassis, operating for Owen Sound Transit.
Photo taken at the Owen Sound Transit Terminal in Owen Sound, ON.
First Manchester: 60337 (N542 WVR) a Wright Endurance bodied Volvo B10B-58, painted in corporate livery and allocated to Wigan Depot. This vehicle is captured here in Manchester's Piccadilly Bus Station before operating a journey on Service 33 to Wigan.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 29th April 2005.
Ref No. 0010539.
First West Yorkshire: 19023 (YJ07 LVR) a Wright Streetcar bodied Volvo B7LA, painted in two-tone purple FTR branded livery. This vehicle was captured here passing Leeds Bus Station operating a journey on service 4.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 16th August 2008.
Ref No. 0017820.
53805 WX05 RSO is seen at Falmouth The Moor before operating the 12:58 68 service to Longfield. The 68 service is no longer in operation, while 53805 is marked for disposal
First Glasgow's 61679 is a scania l94ub and belongs to larkfield depot and can be seen here at harestanes on a Friday night given it's age this bus is a good wee runner and still tuneful. Taken on 18/04/2014
I quite like the turquoise and orange colour combination here, as Gemini 2 36172 passes Streetdeck 35141. As I found with NCT's E400 Cities, turquoise liveried buses seem to be particularly pleasing on the eye, and the route 13 livery was certainly my favourite Network Norwich colour seen on the Gemini 2s.
I would never have expected a Streetdeck of all things to look nice, but First have managed it here with these spotlessly presented orange ones for routes 21 and 22. I still think the styling is questionable, but compared to those ugly orange ones in Reading, the Norwich ones look fantastic! Just a shame I was a bit too late to catch the Presidents working on the orange line.
Castle Meadow, Norwich, 19.7.23
You can check the map. This was at The Great Salt Lake near Saltair. It was my first time in this area, and I thought I'd walk to the water. I think I got about half way there before realizing the water was still way off in the distance. I'm glad that I turned around.
This was one of the last shots I took before I decided to head back. I always underestimate just how far I've walked on my way out. A couple of miles back to my car, in the dark, in an area I've never been to before, is peacefully creepy. (That was a lot of commas.) Part of me enjoyed the absolute silence and part of me just wanted civilization. After walking a couple of miles I ended up with both.
Britain’s first daily newspaper was published in London on 11 March 1702 in somewhat unusual circumstances: it was produced by a man who turned out to be a woman; it carried no news about England, only from abroad; and it didn’t offer any opinions, leaving its readers to make up their own minds.
The paper was called the Daily Courant and was produced at a house near the King’s Arms inn near Fleet Bridge by Elizabeth Mallet, who found it a good career move to pretend it was all done by a man. Women weren’t supposed to do that sort of thing in those days, although, curiously, the only paper which also claimed, less successfully, to be Britain’s first – the Norwich Post – was also run for a while by a woman called Elizabeth – Elizabeth Burges.
Elizabeth Mallet’s journal consisted of two pages, with foreign news on the front and advertisements on the back. It is not clear why she chose to report only foreign news, but it may have been that it was considerably cheaper than paying for home news. She was way ahead of her time in presuming that her readers had “sense enough to make reflections for themselves“. Not many papers today would follow that approach.
After allowing the CN to reach Humboldt junction and release their track warrant, the Mineral Range dispatcher sent their own train on its way west, giving me my first good look at the freshly repainted GP9 being used for road power. 1323 and 1345 bring a train of empties towards Humboldt mill.
12/29/14