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For Steam Sunday here's another shot of Reading and Northern 2102 that unquestionably puts on the best steam show in the east these days. It's such a great show that I returned for my second time in only three weeks to see her!
As for this run, it was a special operated on behalf of the Mountain Top Rotary Club and made a 90 minute trip from Penobscot to Jim Thorpe with a 5 hr layover there before returning north. The train was a bit smaller than other recent runs featuring only 11 cars (including a power car and diner) trailing the big 4-8-4 which was built in the Reading Company's own shops in 1945 using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive. The RDG created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series capable of both freight and passenger assignments.
Here she is steaming beneath Interstate 80 and rumbling over the ancient retaining wall on the former Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline at about MP 145.1 on modern day RBMN's Lehigh Division mainline. The path and roadway below the wall which they are about to jump over was once occupied by the Central Railroad of New Jersey mainline. After crossing the trail which now occupies the old CNJ they bridge the Lehigh River to the east bank where they will remain for 15 miles before crossing back over to the west side of the river at M&H junction near Penn Haven where they will remain, along with the trail (ex CNJ), down to Glen Onoko. This line was orignally built by the Penn Haven and White Haven Railroad which was acquired by the LVRR in 1864 which immediately began building to Wilkes-Barre which opened in 1866.
White Haven, Pennsylvania
Saturday September 13, 2025
The colours, the warmth, the fleeting light. Autumn memories on a wet, dark and cold evening at home again.
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Built for the Irish brewery and investment company, the Guinness Building was completed in 1969 and designed by Charles Paine & Associates. The 25 floor, 100 m tower is perhaps Vancouver's finest International Style building.
I was inspired to go shoot this again after viewing Edifice: Exploring Art, Archives, and Architecture an exhibition of paintings of several iconic local buildings by artist Graham Winter at the City of Vancouver Archives Gallery (in Vanier Park). The exhibit runs until August 26, it's worth going to see. Some great paintings highlighting the architectural history of Vancouver.
More info from The Georgia Straight.
Ava Jhamin For
Le'La
"Queen Of Ravens"
A perfect different way to do Halloween or a rp. This amazing Queen of Ravens comes with the Bodysuit-Boots-Skirt-Wings-Gloves-Crown and BOM face tattoo for Lelutka EvoX.
Bodies:
Maitreya
Maitreya Petite
LaraX
LaraX Petite
Legacy
Legacy Bombshell
Legacy Perk
Kupra
Erika
Reborn
Reborn Waifu
GenX
GenX Classic
GenX Curvy.
Le'La Main Store
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This E9 was built for the Union Pacific railroad back in September 1955 as their UP 957 and served them well, until it's sale to Amtrak, where it would become their AMTK 430. Amtrak retired the classic streamliner in 1982 and it found it's way to Alaska working for the Alaska Railroad where it became their ARR 2401. ARR shed the locomotive and William Gardner of Northern Railcar Corporation picked it up along with ARR 2402 which was former Milwaukee Road 32A. The 2401 was patched and renumbered 10A to pinch hit for Mr. Gardner's Scenic Rail Dining train out of Brown Deer. After the Scenic Rail Dining venture went south, or west through divorce proceedings, Gardner was able to keep the 10A and 10C and they were painted into the beautiful crimson and gray scheme. A few years later, Mr Gardner added a E9 B unit to the consist, making it the finest looking executive set of locomotives around. After WATCO took control of the WSOR, they had no desire or need for the beautiful units and shed them. The 101 would go to the Friends of 261 where it wears a handsome pseudo Milwaukee Road scheme for their passenger operation. 102 ended up at the Illinois Railroad Museum where it remains in it's crimson and gray scheme. 103, former UP, AMTK, ARR 2401, WSOR 103, ended up as SLRG 103 on the Iowa Pacific. The 103 is now up for auction and the Friends of 261 would really like to add it to their collection to match the 32A. I can't get the link to work for donations there, but if interested go to friends of 261, so they can hopefully add this well maintained locomotive to their roster.
ARR 2401,2402 Northern Rail car Corporation,
Cudahy, WI. April 1987
For 52 Weeks of 2015 theme: From this spot (season 1).
A wintery view of Durham Cathedral from Observatory Hill, Durham. Penshaw monument can be seen in the distance to the left of the cathedral and the snowy Teeside hills are to the right. The field I'm standing in has been photographed before full of buttercups and poppies so I can't wait to see what the seasons' changes bring.
I found this on the web, how cute it that !! I would see little sis in it ^__^
here what it said on the web about it:
A model wears a creation by Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela for his Fall-Winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from the remains of an exploded star, using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The findings, which come from observations of a stellar remnant called Cassiopeia A, shed new light on the nature of young supernova remnants, which accelerate particles close to the speed of light.
Launched on Dec. 9, 2021, IXPE, a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency, is the first satellite that can measure the polarization of X-ray light with this level of sensitivity and clarity.
All forms of light – from radio waves to gamma rays – can be polarized. Unlike the polarized sunglasses we use to cut the glare from sunlight bouncing off a wet road or windshield, IXPE’s detectors maps the tracks of incoming X-ray light. Scientists can use these individual track records to figure out the polarization, which tells the story of what the X-rays went through.
Cassiopeia A (Cas A for short) was the first object IXPE observed after it began collecting data. One of the reasons Cas A was selected is that its shock waves – like a sonic boom generated by a jet – are some of the fastest in the Milky Way. The shock waves were generated by the supernova explosion that destroyed a massive star after it collapsed. Light from the blast swept past Earth more than three hundred years ago.
This composite image shows the Cas A supernova remnant, a structure resulting from the explosion of a star in the Cassiopeia constellation. The blues represent data from the Chandra Observatory, the turquoise is from NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (called IXPE), and the gold is courtesy of the Hubble Telescope.
Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Vink et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
#NASAMarshall #Chandra #NASA #ChandraXrayObservatory #IXPE #HubbleSpaceTelescope #IXPE #supernovaremnant
Read more about NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
Read more about the Chandra X-ray Observatory
will it be possible to see 4 of these magnificent animals quenching their thirst at sundown in the wild? #worldrhinoday2016
TIme for another puffin from this summer. I have sooo many left to show you 😉
Now I'm on my way spending the weekend together with my beloved Gospel Choir ツ
Have a nice weekend everyone!
My album of birds and nests here.
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This reminds me of a scene from one of my all time favorite movies: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
I'm guessing that they are nesting nearby and are searching for food on the beach below - which explains the bulk of the flock.
No birds were added to the photo or cloned - I however cloned away a bird or two that were partially in frame... Shame on me. ;)
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
This is an image from an early morning visit to to the pond where a pair of Greater Yellowlegs were going through their morning routine.
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Activists for birds and wildlife
Image taken August 18, 2011
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Dedicated to flickr.com/groups/passionatelypinkforthecure/ Passionately Pink for the Cure
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Yahoo! is donating $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for each pink photo added to this pool up to $50,000. Please join the group & add all of your pink photos now!
Passionately PINK for the Cure
EXPLORE # 377, Oct. 12, # 291 on Oct. 15
My only Elyse (Seduisante) photographed for the photo game started by Bringing Dolls to Life. Elyse's eyeshadow was retouched slightly in picmonkey.
Top by Mattel, necklace by me.
Some shots of Vanessa from the December issue...for the good ones, visit my primfeed: www.primfeed.com/alvin.maxwell
Smile for peace
Smile for joy
Let me see you smile
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I'd walk a hundred million miles to see you smile for life
© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
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This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over
Listen to Rheinberger's "Abendlied":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuRpHnz2ZJo
Listen to Bach's cantata:
For the last few days I have been trying to get a decent shot of one of the bumblebees that have been on David's Azalea.. I finally got one clear enough that I kept it... LOL!!!
Hey, guys! I made some super cute baby bear backpacks for this week's Saturday Sale.
The singles are L$75. Mod + Copy / No transfer. You can resize them with a script (just click the backpack) or using SL's build tools.
Fatpack is L$375 and has a texture change HUD to change the colors of the bear, overalls & flower.
Have a great weekend!
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The nut’s not a heart
And my jay’s in different light
But this shot’s for jan…
…as was Jude’s yesterday, and Lucy's today.
I hope Jan will accept my gift.
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An entry for the group 52 in 2015 challenge, #16 Magical.
An entry for the challenge group 115 in 2015, #13 Superstition.
As it so often happens in the late evening, as the sky clears after a period of rain and showers, there is always the promise of an interesting sunset. With this in mind, I took my camera (and Kizzy for moral support) and went for a walk up our favourite fen road,hoping that disappointment would not be all that I got.
It was in fact quite an interesting walk, and we had everything from bright sunshine, sharp showers and even a beautiful rainbow. This shot (looking over cornfields) of the rainbow, with a flock of Greylag geese flying off to their roosting grounds (after a feed up on a nearby field of peas), was taken about 90 minutes before sunset.
I have submitted it for both groups an the basis that seeing a brilliant rainbow is a magical experience, and also because of the superstition of being able find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I bought this dollhouse for $4 at the thrift store seven years ago. I started remodeling it about 5 years ago and got away from it. I'm going to try to get it spruced up enough that I can use it for a Christmas house display for my Maileg mice. It is a small house so good for a table top decoration. It was really chopped up originally and I'm not planning to add back the interior dividing walls. I also removed 4 side windows and the closed the hole for the tiny staircase. I want more room to display furniture.
I removed the roof and peaked top and hoped to raise the third floor to the same height as the other 2 floors and add big windows on the front of the third floor, but decided tonight to just glue the original roof back on and just go from here. The "raise the roof" part was holding me back. I did not know how to really do it.
I used egg carton bricks to create a walk, and stone features. I also cut larger window and door openings. I have nice quality windows and a door that will fit into the larger openings. I need to paint them.
Let's hope I stick with this plan and get this in good enough shape to display next month with my Christmas mice. I don't have to finish it, just get it decent enough to use.
Something creepy for Halloween passed through my mind, just for fun...
probably will be delated later on, so please don't hesitate and add something silly or funny... :-)
Have a good evening even if Halloween is not your thing.
Cheers guys, love you all ; )
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[for anyone interested in the reality of this abstraction, I believe that’s my little Kia Soul on the right, reflected on the side of the vehicle in the next lane over 😜] San Francisco, California
Standing in the middle of the pier at Tybee Island, GA, I snapped this photo which is actually three photos combined into this HDR. This was taken first thing in the morning which provided the great sun light seen on the inside of the pier columns.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a tripod mounted Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS4.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
For 'MacroMondays' theme of 'superstition'.
Isn't it a superstition, an irrational belief, that you must have flowers for a funeral. And the idea must go back a very long time. There is a Neanderthal grave in Iraq, within the Shanidar Caves where a group of ancient corpses had been surrounded in plant and floral remains.
We tend to remember the life and death of those we love and the final memory of them is set at a funeral service. Seeing our loved one surrounded by beautiful and heartfelt arrangements of plants and flowers can help create a lasting final impression that can bring smiles or tears.
For many of us the death of a faithful animal probably needs to be marked in some way. What to do with the remains - bury or cremate? A very dear friend of mine has taken her cat's ashes from house to house when she has moved. Reminded of this I have Joe's ashes in a decorated box - decorated of course with a plant tribute.
(For Joe - see Avatar above)
Olympus Zuiko OM Auto Macro 50mm ............................ less than 3"