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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.
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
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.
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 load of pellets, still warm from the furnace, starts the trip south behind a mixed set of ore motors. This train made for a nice chase on a sunny November Saturday morning. I would have liked to get a couple of drone shots but it appears that DJI has chosen to ignore the fact that Android 12 exists, thus no support for their app.
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.
BLE 909 still sporting its orange scheme prepares to depart United Taconite’s Fairlane plant with train U717.
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.
The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Walsenburg Turn makes its way west into the fertile San Luis Valley.
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.
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.
This is the same species of moth I have been posting closeups of this week.
Rothschildia lebeau forbesi
A pair of C40-8's (consecutively numbered at that) are seen approaching Town Line Road in Forbes with a loaded train of raw Taconite from the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth.
The lead Dash 8 wears CN's 15 Year Anniversary logo, commemorating CN's 15th year as a privately owned company, no longer run by the Canadian federal government.
February 2023
Forbes, MN.