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Continuing with this ridiculous exercise four minutes after shooting the 39th train here it was time for number 40 of 54 trains I ultimately photographed in the span of 4 hr 45 min here at Dobbs Ferry rolled into view.
Admittedly they all start to look pretty similar which is the only counterpoint to the awesome volume of trains to be found here. Metro North train 767, is a PM peak 6:22 PM departure from Grand Central headed north on a non stop run to Tarrytown and a total 54 min trip to Croton-Harmon.
The train consists of a six car set (three married pairs) of Bombardier built M7As of which MNCW rosters 336, the oldest of which entered service in 2004. MTA sister Long Island Railroad rosters an additional 828 similar M7 series cars, as well, all of which operate via 750V DC third rail power. In addition to this equipment, 40 yr old Budd built M3As continue to ply this line adding to the variety.
This is MP 20.5 as measured from Grand Central Terminal on modern day Metro North's Hudson Line, the four track former New York Central water level route which traces its history here back to 1849. In 1913 the NYC installed third rail electrification through here as far as Harmon, 33 miles north, a system that remains to this day.
Today this route is astonishingly busy with over 150 MNCW trains passing this point on weekdays with electric MUs operating as far as Croton-Harmon and diesel powered trains to Poughkeepsie, 73 miles north. In addition another 22 Amtrak trains pass to and from points as far flung as Burlington, VT, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and Chicago. Lastly rounding out the parade is a nightly CSXT road freight between Selkirk Yard near Albany and Oak Point Yard in the Bronx.
A dozen miles down river can be seen the George Washington Bridge and less than twenty miles away are the high rises of Midtown Manhattan.
Village of Dobbs Ferry
Town of Greenburgh, New York
Friday June 20, 2025
Fact: If you have not seen the following video, you must immediately. I've watched it several times over the past couple months. So you should see it. That is all.
Song: Validation.
18/52 This was fun :)! Thanks a lot to my sister who helped with this one. Hope you all had a great weekend!!
I created a tumblr to collect all the beautiful artistic self-portraits that are out there: not-a-selfie.tumblr.com/
2C11 10.15 Plymouth - Penzance with 43189 on the front and 43187 on the rear crosses Largin Viaduct at 10.49. This was photo number two at this location and I pulled the telephoto back to show more of the surrounding woodland which will be in leaf in 4-6 weeks and as this is a forestry plantation who knows when the saplings in the foreground will encroach on the view. The light forty minutes previously on my first photo was as good as it gets here though I wouldn't like to guess when this view comes out of shadow in the morning. The bottom of the viaduct can be seen through the leafless branches. A Class B viaduct 130 feet (40 m) high and 567 feet (173 m) long on 8 piers. It was rebuilt by raising the piers and replacing the timber with iron girders on 16 January 1886. The line was singled over this viaduct on 24 May 1964 to reduce the load on the structure.
This is now my laptop new screensaver.
BNSF 1998 and 1777 roll their local through Turners, MO. 1998 shows off the extended "brow" to help support the PTC antenna farm on the cab roof. Both are ex-BN.
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we are picking up Roxy from pre school tomorrow and then meeting Elsie on her way home from school (yippee!) and then cooking an evening meal in east London. Abby will be out until suppertime
I have a busy week as i am taking Max to hospital on Tuesday and hoping to go to Gloucester to visit Christopher on Wednesday by which time, with luck, he will have had his pacemaker fitted. It has been a frustrating few days because he is being barrier nursed which means that he is unable to receive calls from the mobile phone unit . . . well, that depends upon who has answered the phone - one who knows the rules, or one who doesn't. I have been able to speak to him twice! Caroline visited him on Friday. My flickring this week will be intermittent!
So I have turned forty. Life has been too busy to allow me to spend any considerable length of time to do any meaningful reflection, not when you have a newborn to take care for at home. I still do not have the time to pause and take it in fully, but I guess I am quite happy at where I am at the moment. Definitely appreciating what I have right now, glad that I am overcoming some barriers in the past few years and growing into the current me who enjoys more freedom at heart than when I was living alone in Canberra in my early twenties. Life is good. God is good. Here's to the next ten years!
Now, THAT is a paint job! :-)
1940 Ford photographed at the Markham Auto Classic, Markham, Ontario, one of the largest 'main street' car shows in the province.
Don't walk through the door if you see this light!
As some of you may know…every fortnight I do a late night radio show on KGNU Community Radio in Boulder, Colorado. Sometimes, late at night, when there's no one else around…I like to wander the empty hallways of the building taking photos.
If you'd like to hear the show I did on Friday night / Saturday, click the link below. Despite almost 15 years of doing my show, I was a bit sloppy this weekend…so don't judge to harshly. ;)
I had to deadhead south on Sunday. I pondered getting an early start and being at Healy in the morning to get roster and detail of the 3003 which was sitting there as the north leader. Instead I got a lift in with a friend, slept in and pretty much didn't do shit til 1, didn't depart south til 4. I stopped at Nenana and putzed around the Depot/Museum. I asked and was told the work train hadn't gone by all day (my description: "The train with the black engine.") After a Monderosa burger and a bunch more miles I'm coming down the wide part of the Nenana valley about 7 or 8 miles north of Ferry and in one of the few clearings SEE MY F'ING WORK TRAIN! It turns out I would have heard him soon anyway as he was about to start calling for a warrant but still! I dropped the hammer and got to Ferry with little time to set up. I'm standing on the bumper of the RAV as 3012 leads two other GP40-2's south past the old section house in this village of less than 50. Beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Czech Republic - Prague in Year cca 1942 - (many Years ago my Schoolfriend found in the loft of his home a few of original old slides......)
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3092 and three Amtrak F40PH locomotives pull the California Zephyr train No. 6 through Midvale, Utah the morning of Aug. 4, 1988. A Rio Grande dome and observation car are on the tail end of the train around the curve.
Forty Second St is a north-south street located in the Long Branch neighbourhood in Etobicoke (west end Toronto). Forty Second St is 542 m in length and it ends where Lake Ontario begins.
I like the streets in this part of Toronto because if you follow it, you will end up at the lake.
08774 of Dawsons of Middlesbrough trips Potash hoppers from Middlesbrough Goods over Forty Foot Road for discharge into the warhouse side of the business on the late morning of September the 17th 2020.
Another Sid Harrison & Sons lorry I saw over the weekend was SMF149, a fabulous looking Scammell R8 model 8x2 rigid new in 1947 to an operator based near London.
Restored in recent years I think by Peter Harrison, he was riding in the cab here at Cromford Steam Rally.
My sister is going to be a freshman at Gettysburg in the fall, so today we went to a freshman send-off event in Greenwich. It was on this little peninsula that stuck out into the harbor and it was really pretty! I had my tripod in the car but didn't feel like hiking all the way back up the drive to get it, but I managed to take a few photos without it.
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And she felt the rain, stab her back. It came down so hard. Harder than other storms. And she laid there, unable to move. She wanted to cry, but the sky had done it all for her.
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What seemed like forty days & nights the skies were gray. Finally a dove brought some great clouds Sunday afternoon.
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work: Forty Seven rings.
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