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Forbes Island provides dining beneath the sea or on the white sand patios with incredible views of SF Bay, Downtown, Alcatraz, Sea Lions, Coit Tower & the Golden Gate Bridge

Forbes of Kingennie is a country retreat I spent the weekend at a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful place where you can hire a lodge or a private cabin, spend an enjoyable day fishing in the well-stocked reserves, golfing on the private course or one of many other fun activities that I didn't get to try because I was daft enough to be getting up long before dawn to take photographs.

 

Actually the morning sunrise was so stunning that I’m pretty sure I got the better part of the deal and at least I wasn't among those that were so hungover that they could face the sun when eventually they did rise.

 

The shot is centred on the main building of the complex with rental lodges and holiday homes either side. Taken at approximately 5 minutes after the sun broke the horizon it was captured in a single frame taken over 15 seconds with an ND filter to help smooth what little movement there was in the water.

 

On the outskirts of Florence (/ˈflɒrəns/ FLOR-əns; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ( listen)) which is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the Metropolitan City of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 382,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1,520,000 in the metropolitan area.

 

Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.

 

The Historic Centre of Florence attracts 13 millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 89th most visited in 2012, with 1.8 million visitors. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

 

Florence is an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked in the top 51 fashion capitals of the world; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub. In 2008, the city had the 17th highest average income in Italy.

 

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence

   

A pair of C40-8s (2131 + 2119) lead a train of loaded iron ore off the Missabe Sub onto the North Fairlane leg destined for Fairlane processing plant.

... along the Barron Canyon Road in Algonquin Park.

 

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R656 rolls by the signals at Forbes as it departs Corbin for Benedict.

On a foggy morning, DMIR 400 guides a loaded Duluth bound taconite train out of the Fairlane Processing plant and onto the Canadian National Missabe Subdivision.

DMIR #400, the first of twenty SD40-3s rebuilt at Proctor, leads U718, limestone empties from Minorca, across the rarely photographed steel bridge over the St. Louis River outside of Forbes, Minnesota.

A solo rebuilt CN SD75IACC leads M347 across the St. Louis River in Forbes, Minnesota, one of the first of a 50-unit order of SD75Is to be rebuilt by Progress Rail.

Huge thanks to my boy JerdFigs for editing this. Go check him out, he's tagged.

Forbes Island Restaurant seen from Pier 39 San Francisco bay, Alcatraz in the background.

CXRG 209 leads the Walsenburg Turn west after a trip over La Veta Pass.

H603 exits Corbin Yard at Forbes, entering the Cumberland Valley Subdivision.

Rothschildia lebeau forbesi, a sub species of Lebeau's Silkmoth according to iNaturalist. or Rothschildia forbesi according to Bugguide.

 

This is the moth I have been posting closeups for a few days.

A pair of CN C40-8s lead train U730 at Highway 16 in Forbes, MN. The train is coming from the Thunderbird Mine and is destined for UTAC.

Looking east as first light dawns over the Swiss Alps. Taken from the Forbes Arête on the Aiguille du Chardonnet, France.

 

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59-1507 KC-135R 117th ARS / 190th ARW [Forbes Field] Kansas ANG USA. Reach 662 taxiing to Rwy 11 on taxiway Alpha at Mildenhall.

CN 2112 leads south heading into the Forbes plant with raw ore to be processed into pellets.

CN 2111 slowly brings a T-bird train into Fairlane. Not even a year later, these old Dash 8s aren't anywhere to be seen on the Missabe.

... in eastern Algonquin Park

Looking north from San Francisco late on a wintry afternoon, with the usual cast of characters decked out on floats by the pier, one tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to the west, and the hills of Marin County beyond, where the town of Sausalito lies along the slope descending into the Bay, and the ridge of 2,579' (786m) Mount Tamalpais towers above in the background.

 

Another view of the country resort.

Have a wonderful Christmas week!

... in eastern Algonquin Park

CN 2031 and company roar to life departing United Taconite’s Fairlane plant at last light with another round of freshly baked taconite pellets heading for the twin ports.

Most of La Veta pass is inaccessible since it is in a gated Ranch community known as Forbes park. However, there are still some good shots to be had west of the summit near the entrance. Unfortunately for me, the train beat the receding cloud line here by a few minutes.

The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Walsenburg Turn makes its way west into the fertile San Luis Valley.

taking in the view of the Mer de Glace from the Signal Forbes viewpoint

Sterias forbesi

Rothschildia lebeau forbesi

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