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Traditional way of cooking – healthy and tasty. - Temple Festival - Mukkombu, Trichy, Tamil nadu, India. Date Taken – 18-10-2017 – Timing – 11:10 am.- Instagram id:- @nagendran_c4777
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds. Instagram Id : @nagendran_c4777. Planting of trees in a special occasion such as Birthday Wedding etc is a excellent gesture. It can be done in memory of our Parents, Teachers, Friends and also people who comes across in our life such as Doctors Nurses and health staff for their noble service to the society.
( Interview of Shri. C. Nagendran BSNL in NewsTamil 24x7 - Dated:- 05-10-2024 )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ly_euGfvk
youtu.be/GgOvcjSlA6Y?si=hH_LWz9Ij_NBI1Xr
C. Nagendran,
Instagram id:- @nagendran_c4777
Thanjai Periya Kovil, Tamil Nadu, India. It’s reowned for its grand scale intricate architecture and historical importance. 18-09-2015 - Timing – 16:37 pm - Instagram id:- @nagendran_c4777
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds. Instagram Id : @nagendran_c4777. Planting of trees in a special occasion such as Birthday Wedding etc is a excellent gesture. It can be done in memory of our Parents, Teachers, Friends and also people who comes across in our life such as Doctors Nurses and health staff for their noble service to the society.
( Interview of Shri. C. Nagendran BSNL in NewsTamil 24x7 - Dated:- 05-10-2024 )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ly_euGfvk
youtu.be/GgOvcjSlA6Y?si=hH_LWz9Ij_NBI1Xr
C. Nagendran,
Instagram id:- @nagendran_c4777
The little Branford Steam Railroad has long been on my to photography do list since despite all my travels both past and recent in New England, I'd never photographed them.
But, like so many other local roads, their primary 'road' power is a leased GATX GP38-2 making it rather indistinguishable from so many other area roads. However, for the last couple weeks that geep has been away getting a wheel true and some contract repairs up at the Providence and Worcester shop.
Consequently SW1001 7357 which was built new for the operation in July 1976 has been back in public view shuttling trains between the quarry and the docks. Given that the leaser is expected back soon I decided now was a good time to finally go check this off my list.
The Branford Steam is unique in the area given that it is not a common carrier railroad and exists solely as a 'conveyer' belt for its parent company's massive quarry in North Branford. Much of the the traffic on the 6.2 mile long route is insular, moving loaded hoppers of quarried trap rock from the mine on Totoket Mountain to the dock at Juniper Point on the shore of Long Island Sound for barging to New York construction customers.
But the road also interchanges cars with the Providence and Worcester Railroad that moves them to the company's other facilities in Connecticut as well as all the way to interchange with the New York and Atlantic Railroad in Queens, NY. Furthermore they supply ballast to Amtrak which also interchanges MofW hoppers in the same small Pine Orchard Yard for forwarding up to the quary for loading.
The oldest portion of the route can trace its history to 1903 and the quarry it serves has been in operation for 107 years mining trap rock (hard igneous rock) under the aegis of assorted owners. At the time of the railroad's 1909 incorporation the name 'Steam Railroad' was used to distinguish the new railroad from the nearby Branford Electric Railway which was a separate streetcar system. The latter is long gone but you can still go for a pleasant shoreside walk along the causeways it built nearby.
Originally known as the New Haven Trap Rock Company, mining has followed the west face of Totoket Mountain in Jurassic Holyoke Basalt for nearly three miles producing one of the longest continuous quarry faces in the world. The little private railroad moves in excess of one million tons annually and is an impressive if obscure operation. Now operated as a subsidiary of Dublin, Ireland based CRH it seems that there is no end in sight.
To learn more about the railroad and one of its surving quarry steam locomotives check out this excellent link: www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/steamtown/shs2m.htm
Anyway, here is the little EMD switcher arriving in the Pine Orchard yard about to cut away, run around their train and shove the cut of loaded hoppers up the north leg of the wye to the P&W/Amtrak interchange yard.
Branford, Connecticut
Friday August 13, 2021
This I got a lifetime opportunity to celebrate my Pongal holidays with one of India's oldest tribes - the Badugas at Thalavadi Sathiyamangalam. Their community leader invited me to witness and be part of their Pongal festivities. They worship a Banyan tree which is more than 200 years old. Annadanam (free dinner) was given to more than 1000 people. Instagram Id:- @nagendran_c4777. - 15-01-2024.
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds.
Captain Ernest Herschell was a big personality: he was physically strong, well-educated, successful in business, well-liked and a talented rugby-player. Interestingly, he is another of our local casualties with German ancestry.
His father was Adolph Herschell (1830-1913), who came to Hull from Germany in about 1855.
He eventually settled in Liverpool and made his money in the African trade.
His wife was Anne Emerson (born c.1841 in London). The couple married in Marylebone in 1870.
Anne’s family were also successful business people, involved in silk manufacture and international trade.
Adolph and Anne eventually settled in Beresford Road in Oxton. They had five children – Arnold, Jane, Bertha, Ernest and Edith. In 1891 Ernest was a boarder at Amersham Hall School in Caversham, just north of Reading.
The school had been founded by Ebenezer West in 1829 “for the sons of dignified gentlemen”.
Doubtless it was here that he learned to play rugby – the sport which he grew to love and to play very well at a high level. He became a member of the Birkenhead Park Club.
Someone calling himself C.C. wrote Ernest’s eulogy which appeared in The Birkenhead News of 30th September 1916: “Captain Ernest Herschell was a great rugby player. As a forward he stood high among his fellows in the middle of the nineties … For ten successive years he was in the list of prominent men north of the Trent … with ‘Flapper’ Herschell in the scrum it was much more healthy to be on his side than against him. He was a deadly tackler, and when he got the ball tucked under his arm and set the pace it was almost more than mortal man could do to bring him down.”
He said that Ernest played for the North against the South at Exeter in 1897, in 1898 at Newcastle and in 1905 at Birkenhead. He also played against the New Zealand All Blacks in that year. He played cricket for Oxton, but “rugby was his code”.
His brother Arnold was a famous tennis player.
By 1911, Ernest was married to Bertha Mary and living on Heron Road in Meols; the couple had a seven-month old baby called Winifred Mary and employed two servants – Maud Edith Partington from Beaumaris and Elizabeth Derbyshire of Liverpool. Ernest was doing well in business – he was a managing director for a firm of forwarding agents, called R.H. Morgan and Co. Ltd., which specialised in trade with South America. Ernest had worked for some time in Argentina, where he was probably able to keep up his rugby.
He probably spoke Spanish, which is why his house was named Buen Orden, meaning “good order”.
C.C. went on to comment about Ernest’s military career: “Having passed his fortieth year, he could have kept out of the war, but his old love to be where the strife was hottest, and his great patriotism, forced him to leave his family and home for the trenches, and he joined the Liverpool Regiment”. The 1/6th Battalion was a territorial unit which became part of the 165th Brigade, 55th (West Lancashire) Division.
He was promoted from lieutenant to the temporary rank of captain on 16th November 1914, interestingly at the same time as another German-sounding officer – Charles E. Wurtzburg.
The 55th Division relieved the 11th (Northern) Division on the Somme front 25th July 1916, in the area facing Guillemont. It took part in the Battles of Flers-Courcelette between 17th and 22nd September and Morval between 25th and 28th September.
The Book of Remembrance says that he died at Flers. C.C. said, “Today he lies low, but I’ll warrant he did his duty. Ernest Herschell was a good fellow, and as a sportsman he could take hard knocks as generously as he gave them to his opponents , and many a hundred men had cause to remember him when his springing footsteps were prancing the enclosure of a Rugby field. Those of us who knew him are sorry for his end. Some day, perchance, I may recall the lighter side of his genial nature. At the moment we bow to the severance, and salute the name and record of one who did his bit for King and country.”
Ernest’s parents lived well into their 80’s and are buried in West Kirby. The family grave is in Grange Hill Cemetery.
Notes:
Birth: June 1875
Death: 26th September 1916 aged 41
Addresses: 29 Beresford Road, Oxton (81-01), ‘Buen Orden’, 21 Heron Road, Meols
Occupation: Managing Director of a Firm of Forwarding Agents, Engaged in the South American Trade
Unit: 6th Bn. King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Rank: Captain
Medals: 14/15 Star, British War and Victory
Commemorated and Buried: GH, H. GHC, France: Somme, Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbé IV. G. 38.
The above information was obtained from an online article:
An Imperishable Record
The People of North-West Wirral and the Great War by
Stephen John Roberts.
Music and Dance Festival has been held in Chennai for decades in the month of Margazhi (December-January), in which bhakthi and music engulfs the devotees. One such festival was held in a School, for which I was invited to cover the event. I was personally thrilled for this is the first time I was invited to cover such an occasion. Top performing artists - both Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam dancers performed in this event and I consider this my privilege to cover the event. Instagram Id :- @nagendran_c4777 - ( 15/12/2024 ).
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds. Instagram Id : @nagendran_c4777. Planting of trees in a special occasion such as Birthday Wedding etc is a excellent gesture. It can be done in memory of our Parents, Teachers, Friends and also people who comes across in our life such as Doctors Nurses and health staff for their noble service to the society.
Cu utilaje de cale ferata Swietelski.
With Swietelski heavy machinery equipment.
Vidrasau, Mures,
18.01.2025
CB 2190 CB
DAF XF FT Space Cab
Discordia Road Forwarding, Sofia, Bulgaria
M1 Junction 17, 15 April 2021
Visited Thekkady and captured some nice shots of Kerala's traditional dance form - Kathakali and martial arts form - Kalaripayattu, which descended from Lord Parasurama. – Instagram Id:- @nagendran_c4777 – Dated:- 23-12-2025.
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds. Instagram Id : @nagendran_c4777. Planting of trees in a special occasion such as Birthday Wedding etc is a excellent gesture. It can be done in memory of our Parents, Teachers, Friends and also people who comes across in our life such as Doctors Nurses and health staff for their noble service to the society.
Dear Madam/ Sir,
I happy to share that today I published my autobiography titled With Folded Hands in English and கூப்பியகரங்களுடன் in Tamil. It is my long time desire to bring it out mainly to thank all those helped me survive and thrive. I am alive because of the good deeds of many souls who helped me without any expectations. Through this book I thank them all as I don't have any other ways to express my thanks to them though it is not enough.
The book was released at Aarvam IAS Academy,Anna Nagar, Chennai. The function was presided by Mr. Irulappan founder trustee of DVM Seva Palam , the book was released by Mr . Senthil Velavan IRS And was received by Ms. Tamilarasi IRS. Mr. Shibikumaran the founder director of Aarvam IAS Academy welcomed the gathering and Mr. Damodaran a retired banker, script writer and fiction writer wished me all success. 21- DECEMBER - 2025 TIMING -10AM – Instagram ID:- @nagendran_c4777
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With Folded Hands in English C.NAGENDRAN - 21- DECEMBER - 2025 TIMING -10AM :
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and கூப்பியகரங்களுடன் in Tamil C.NAGENDRAN - 21- DECEMBER - 2025 TIMING -10AM :
Nagendran Tamil :
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The former Bartlams store consists of 2 single storey brick buildings which have been converted for a single occupancy. They formed part of an important commercial and retail area in Charters Towers in the late 19th century
Discovered in late 1871, Charters Towers became the richest of the North Queensland mining fields. It was proclaimed a municipality in 1877 and the construction of the railway created easy access to the port at Townsville, solving the problem of high freight costs experienced by many other mining fields. Charters Towers gold was in deep reefs and the equipment needed to extract and process it was financed by substantial southern and overseas investment. The town became a prosperous centre providing employment for a considerable number of people. It had several schools, 8 churches, 3 newspapers, 2 iron foundries, a hospital, a fire brigade, a jockey club, and a gasworks. In the late 1880s and 90s, handsome public buildings rose to replace the modest structures of the early township. Gold output peaked in 1899, as did a population of 26, 500.
The land on which both buildings stand was sold at auction in 1882 as 3 allotments. The corner block, allotment 1, was purchased by William Jackson, who died in 1886 and left the property to be administered by Trustees. In 1898 it was sold to Wright Heaton and Company Limited. They were a large firm of carriers, forwarding agents and produce merchants, formed in New South Wales, who had arrived in Charters Towers in 1882 following the opening of the rail link with Townsville. They initially had premises at the railway station and in 1884 opened a forage store on the corner of Gill and Deane Streets. They are believed to have operated from this site for some years before actually purchasing the property. This building was constructed for them in 1901. In 1907 they leased it to Cummins and Campbell, who initially conducted a similar business, but branched out and by 1916 were describing themselves as wine, spirit and general merchants. After being sold in 1912 to Horace Brown it was purchased in 1916 by William White who opened there the following year as William White & Co. Ltd., also a merchant. In 1925 it was purchased by Bartlam's Limited, general merchants, who supplied stations in Western Queensland.
The adjoining building was built as a branch of the important trading company of Burns, Philp and Company Limited. James Burns had arrived in Brisbane in 1862 with his brother John, who set up a store there, while James worked on a pastoral run. In 1867, James set up a store in Gympie, beginning a long association with mining fields. In 1872 he moved to Townsville and set up his own business there. He was joined in 1874 by Robert Philp who had previously worked for shipping agents in Brisbane. Burns moved to Sydney in 1877 and established himself as an importer and shipping agent, while Philp continued business in the north. In 1883 they formed a company, Burns Philp and Company Limited, registered in Sydney. Within a decade of Burns arrival in Townsville, the company dominated trade in North Queensland, supplying a huge range of goods. They also became a major player in Pacific and New Guinea trading.
In Charters Towers, Philp entered into a business arrangement with Isidor Lissner, who was elected to the Queensland Parliament in 1883. Lissner was not considered a good business man by Burns and the Charters Towers branch actually made a substantial loss in the years 1883 - 1886, apparently due to previous injudicious purchasing. Philp continued to represented the northern interests of the company even after he himself was elected to Parliament in 1886. Lissner owned Allotment 3 of section 27 in Mosman Street and subdivided it in 1887. Philp acquired subdivision B and purchased Allotment 2 from Martin Thomsen, the original grantee. At the time, the premises of Burns Philp & Co were further along Mosman Street. The company developed rapidly during the boom of the 1880s, although 1888 - 1889 was a difficult time for Charters Towers as drought affected the running of crushing mills which used considerable quantities of water.
In 1891 the property was transferred into the name of Burns Philp and Company Limited and a new building, designed by architects Eyre and Munro, was constructed for the company at a cost of £3500. Part of the building was offices and part a store. It was a substantial building with an elaborate facade in keeping with other commercial buildings being erected in Charters Towers and with its neighbour, Wright Heaton and Company.
Although gold production on the field peaked in 1899 at an impressive 337, 000 ounces, it soon became clear that these grades did not continue at depth and by 1920 only one mine was still operational. People, businesses, and even the more portable buildings moved away from the town. The store was sold to Selina Vicks in 1921. Her husband, Thomas Vicks, conducted a grocery store from the premises. From 1926 Burns Philp also had an agency there, eventually moving from the site around 1940 when they obtained premises in Stubley Street. Vicks grocery store closed about the same time and the property was sold in 1944 to Bartlams, who may have been occupying the building before this, though there is no formal lease.
Bartlams modified the buildings into a single occupancy. They went into liquidation in 1976 and in 1978 the building was offered for sale. There was concern about the possibility of demolition and in order to prevent this, the building was purchased by the National Trust of Queensland with a bequest from Miss Zara Clark of 'Mirtna' Station. The 'Zara Clark Museum' began as a transport museum and houses a large local history collection which includes horse-drawn vehicles, agricultural machinery, domestic, mining, and medical artefacts, records, and photographs.
When the Bartlams store buildings were erected, Mosman Street was dominated by commercial and retail buildings extending from Mary Street at the north to Towers Street at the south. Many of these buildings have since been demolished, and houses now occupy some of the sites on which larger buildings once stood. Bartlam's store forms the edge of this once continuous row of buildings, and is now important in maintaining some sense of the scale of Mosman Street as a former commercial district.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
This week we are taking our inspiration from mixed media artist, Liz Huston, whose work is symbolic and surrealist.
Globe from Google Images, background from Lorie Davison and coloured and altered image from my stash.
I'd been trying to catch one of these reincarnated New England coal trains but missed the first two due to the holiday and timing.
The word going around is that there are a dozen of these trains coming out of the Monongahela coal fields via an all CSXT routing to Ayer for hand off to Pan Am and forwarding to the Merrimack Generating station.
While us railfans have been excited there are a group of people who are, shall we say much less enthusiastic about the return of these trains! Consequently this one wasn't plastered all over social media in advance. However, a select few folks still knew about it, so I wasn't alone here on the Rt. 31 / Center Depot Road overpass despite it being relatively early on a weekday morning....but at least everyone here was a coal train supporter!
Here we see 80 car train N618-14 curling thru CP57 and climbing to the top of the Charlton Hill grade on CSXT's Boston Subdivision.
Charlton, Massachusetts
Monday December 16, 2019
Went to Kolukkumalai via the Pollachi- Munnar route to capture the sunset. But could not capture it due to cloudy weather. On the way back got a great shot of a mama elephant teaching it's young one to drink water. Let nature be your teacher. Instagram Id :- @nagendran_c4777 - ( 07/01/2025 ).
One of the major reasons why we need to work towards protecting the environment is because it helps to protect humanity. If we didn’t have our environment, then we wouldn’t have a place to live or resources to live.it is our moral obligation to do so. As a human who lives on earth, it is our responsibility to make sure that it is protected. We must give back to the future generation that what we have received and enjoying. Give them an environment that isn’t damaged and teach them how to continue living sustainably. I request all good souls to plant Banyan tree while making tree plantation. It will have a long lasting effect for mankind and go a long way in carry forwarding the nature to the next generation and will also give fruits useful for birds. Instagram Id : @nagendran_c4777. Planting of trees in a special occasion such as Birthday Wedding etc is a excellent gesture. It can be done in memory of our Parents, Teachers, Friends and also people who comes across in our life such as Doctors Nurses and health staff for their noble service to the society.
( Interview of Shri. C. Nagendran BSNL in NewsTamil 24x7 - Dated:- 05-10-2024 )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ly_euGfvk
youtu.be/GgOvcjSlA6Y?si=hH_LWz9Ij_NBI1Xr
C. Nagendran,
Instagram id:- @nagendran_c4777
Dated:- 24-11-2025 – Timing – 12:01 a.m
PREMIER JOSEPH R. SMALLWOOD (CANADA) - Photograph signed: "Joseph R. Smallwood" as Premier. B/W, 8x10. AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - Accompanied by forwarding letter, also signed by Smallwood on official letterhead from the Office of the Premier, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, dated May 13, 1970.
Joseph R. "Joey" Smallwood (1900-1991), a newspaper columnist turned pig farmer, hosted a popular radio program on the history and culture of Newfoundland. A strong advocate of joining Canada, he became Premier (1949-1972) after a referendum on union narrowly passed, and helped negotiate Newfoundland's entry as the tenth Canadian province. After retiring from politics in 1977, he was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Photo and letter was addressed to - Mr. A. B. Hodges, Sr., / 2903 Madison N. E., / Aburquerque, New Mexico 87110
Alden Bernard Hodges Sr.
(b. 8 April 1910 in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Michigan, USA - d. 11 January 1990 (aged 79) in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA) - LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/albuquerque-journal-obituary-f...
His hobby was collecting autographed "Letters from Leaders."
LINK - archive.org/details/CIA-RDP05T00644R000200540057-2
His son also collected autographs - LINK - Alden B. Hodges Jr. - Autograph Collector - www.newspapers.com/article/albuquerque-journal-alden-b-ho...
On Thursday 12/12/2024, 4116s (Aurizon shuttle) is seen on the approach to Virginia (SA) with G533 hauling 2 well wagons, which had been detached from 3DA6 at Two Wells for forwarding to Gillman.
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E9 9985A westbound on Train # 11, the Nebraska Zephyr, the daily Chicago to Lincoln, Nebraska mail train, at Naperville, Illinois, January 16, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built in December 1955 (c/n 20533) on EMD Order 2071, became BN 9985 after the March 2, 1970 merger, was remanufactured by Morrison-Knudsen in November 1973, returning numbered BN 9915 (owned by the West Suburban Mass Transit District and leased to the BN), retired in 1992, becoming NYS&W 2402. The following is excerpted from the book, Chicago Union Station, by Edward M. DeRouin (Pixels Publishing):
The economies of the 1950's drove the Burlington, among others, to consolidate schedules to reduce operating costs. Effective February 1, 1958, the Nebraska Zephyr and Coloradoan ran as one train. After October 28, 1962, the cars of the Kansas City Zephyr were included in the consist. They were removed at Galesburg and continued their trip to Kansas City (as Train # 35). The primary purpose of the Coloradoan was to bring mail and express to Council Bluffs and the Union Pacific for forwarding to places like Salt Lake City and Oakland. A secondary chore was to carry storage mail to Denver. Now those cars were tucked in between the power and passenger cars of the two Zephyrs. Shortly after 9:00 AM, a switch engine would shove the articulated cars of the Nebraska Zephyr, the four cars of the Kansas City Zephyr, and cars filled with express to the (Chicago Union Station, CUS) depot. After setting the consist on the station track, the engine would then add two RPOs pulled from station track 14 and move on to other work.
After finishing breakfast at the Zephyr Diner, the road engine crew prepared their locomotives and when the switches were lined, proceeded west to Union Avenue. Once on the main, the locomotives reversed and headed for CUS. Before reaching the depot, the units were lined for station track 32, where storage cars filled with mail were picked up. Once the steam and air lines were hooked up and brakes tested, the locomotives and mail proceeded south past the Harrison Street Tower. Burlington 11's final preparatory move with a switchman, referred to as a Pilot, qualified to control backup moves at CUS, in place on the station end of the head end cars, and controlled the automatic brake with a hose and valve assembly referred to as a monkey tail (because of its shape). Upon receipt of the proper signal, the Pilot would draw off some air, and the Engineer would 'shove on reduction'. This procedure held slack in check. The movement was stopped before making the coupling and the monkey tail removed. Hand signals guided the last movement, and with people boarding, postal clerks working in the RPOs, and mail handlers loading the storage cars, the coupling had to be, and was, gentle. After the steam and air lines were made, the standing brake test was conducted and Number 11 was ready for departure at 11:00 AM.
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The photos were captured on a trip to Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary and Top slip in Pollachi in Tamilnadu, the places being of scenic beauty. Since it was raining, much photos could not be captured. I request to plant Banyan while making tree plantation. It will be a long lasting effects in mankind by carry forwarding the nature to next generation and also gives fruits useful for birds. 09-07-2022
X53 and X54 depart the Yennora Intermodal Terminal with 1253 container trip train to Glenlee. At the time, the Yennora terminal was jointly run by P&O/DP World and QRNational/CRT.
At Glenlee, the loading from 1253 will be added to BM7 for forwarding on to Melbourne. The two X Class will collect loading for Sydney that has come down form Brisbane, returning to Yennora late that evening.
Having worked up from Leicester earlier in the morning 47727/749 had called in at Barrow hill to pick up 87002 and dropped it off at Doncaster for forwarding to Scotland .
The duo are seen approaching Rotherham Masbrough on the return running as the 0Z98 1234 Doncaster Down Decoy - Leicester L.I.P.
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WEEK 19 – Southaven Gordmans Liquidates Again (VIII)
Fast-forwarding to August 20th for our bonus sixth pic today, we find just what I referred to in the previous description: notice of the Southaven Gordmans’ last 10 days posted in the window. This would turn out to be my last visit to the store; I did not come back for its final day on August 29th.
More from this visit, as well as post-closure pics, to come on Thursday and Saturday. I plan to have six pics each on both of those days, too…
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
DA 1543 aparținând GFR, ES64 U2 566 aparținând MRCE și închiriată la Express Forwarding remizate în Socola
-Talstation der neuen Galzigbahn, St. Anton am Arlberg-
-base station of the new Galzig ropeway, St. Anton am Arlberg-
A few hours before a State of Emergency took affect on New Jersey, NS was busy forwarding freights into the east. The Lehigh Valley heritage Gevo leads 212 through Roselle Park. Ahead is 18G and 20E, all vying for space at their destinations. The incoming clouds foreshadow the Winter weather that would be coming later in the evening.
Thus far, I've made an effort to be as noncontroversial as possible when it comes to my selections. That most likely comes to an end with this suggestion: the classic Batman: the Movie, the 1966 feature film spin-off from the iconic 60s Batman TV show which featured Adam West (undoubtedly known by many of you solely as the mayor of Quahog) as the caped crusader and Burt Ward as his ward and faithful sidekick, Robin the boy wonder.
Thesis: It's better than than anything the Christopher Nolan films (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises) have to offer and ultimately showcases a better understanding of what makes Batman the great character he is.
Plus, awesome 60's guitar surf music!
What's it about?
Holy-world crisis, Batman! United Underworld, a criminal band made up of worst of Gotham's worst (Penguin, Riddler, Joker, and Catwoman) has stolen a new invention and plans to use it to threaten world peace by targeting the United World Organization's Security Council. Can Batman and Robin save the members of the council from certain doom? Will Bruce Wayne discover the terrible secret behind Miss Kitayna, the seductive Russian journalist with the predilection towards animal prints? What has yellow skin and writes? No need to tune in next Bat-time on this Bat-channel; all the answers will be revealed by the end of the film!
Why it's great
The idea of a rich orphan dressing up in a bat costume to fight crime with an array of gadgets is . . . inherently silly and/or psychotic. Frank Miller probably mined the latter angle best, but no other version of Batman captured the raw fun of dressing up and combating outlandish supervillains than the Adam West incarnation.
Yes, it's delightful high camp and pretty much a literal live action version of a comic strip, but never for one moment is it dull. Even Batman's bone dry, ponderous law and order speeches are specifically meant to amuse, unlike the seemingly-endless, joyless monologues on the nature and role of vigilantism that fill the Nolan films. Never will you feel like the film is trying to "say something" at the expense of forwarding the narrative or just showing the viewer a darn good time.
In all honesty, I'd probably pick Batman: The Animated Series as my all-time favorite depiction of Batman and his gallery of rogues, but as much-maligned at the West Bat might have been, it's worth for younger folks to give it a second (or first!) look for a Batman that isn't afraid to just be fun and true to his comic nature.
I would add this two delightfully awesome remixes as evidence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UiJmCN_K4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXEZxn8E8k
That said, I should add that as much as Burt Ward was great, Bruce Lee would have turned him into ground chuck in about a blink of an eye
Will you get in trouble if your parents catch you watching it?
Nope! Nothing but good, clean, all-American fun here, although Lee Meriwether . . . meow!
Late Nite Double-Feature Picture Show
The actual show features some fairly terrible animation, but darn if the opening theme to the 60's Spider-Man cartoon is pure fun (and used to great effect in the Raimi films)
I'd also point out that Anne Hathaway might try, but Ms. Eartha Kitt, now her I believe as wanting to be evil! ;)
EDIT: YES! www.avclub.com/article/the-classic-1960s-batman-is-finall...
I've selected this livery largely because of its classic combination of green, red and cream, which is not unlike the well-known Ken Thomas fleet (the tractor is actually modified from my previously-published Ken Thomas version). Nijdam Expeditiebedrijf (Nijdam Forwarding) is a long-established transport, storage and logistics company based at Groningen in the Netherlands. This image is loosely based on the DAF 3300s previously operated by the company, although it is not intended to represent a specific vehicle. Thanks again to Martin Vonk for the base image (22-Apr-16).
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Re 465 017-2 BLS Cargo/railCare am 06.01.2017 mit einem UKV Güterzug zwischen Kiesen und Wichtrach.
railCare is a niche supplier in Switzerland operating BLS Cargo Re 465 locomotives on a rental base for freight forwarding. The Re 465 017-2 BLS Cargo/railCare pulling freight train between Kiesen and Wichtrach.
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Daily Photo - The Overgrown Crypt
Here is another shot from La Recoleta cemetery in Argentina. Every crypt seemed to have its own story... I wish I could have heard the tales of each one. But, on the plus side, I did have my over-active imagination to fill in the blanks.
All of my shots from La Recoleta (click on the "Buenos Aires" tag here in the post to see the others) were handheld because my tripod was lost with the rest of my luggage. Usually, I never check my tripod for just that very reason! I just don't really trust those people... And I've never had a problem bringing it on the plane except for one time when a busy-body security lady told me it was 1-inch too long. 1 inch!
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There was nothing inspiring about the weather on New Year's Day. The fog and mist of late December was gone and the next round of snows hadn't arrived yet. Still, I figured I would make the minimal effort to record the scene. Here we see an equally blah GE lashup parked at the autoport. This is where L506, the transfer run to interchange partners in the Twin Cities, goes on and off duty. When L506 gets back to New Richmond it is parked here until the L516 crew comes on duty to bring the train to Stevens Point overnight. L506 can get back here as early as early afternoon. While it sits the autoport staff will be bringing empty auto carriers out of the facility and spotting them on the side tracks next to the main. Coming on duty in the early evening, L516's first task will be adding those empties to its train for forwarding east.
With the facility out of view to the left all we can see is the far corner. The secure gate here is only opened to let the cars in and out. The whole place is fenced like a minimum security prison complete with barbed wire along the top. In contrast to all the brand new Fords and Chevys getting this heavy protection are the hulks of vehicles piled up just on the other side. There has been an auto salvage place crammed onto a property there going back generations. In fact, plenty of jalopies that had encroached onto the ROW needed to be grudgingly moved off when the new side tracks were built five years ago. Perhaps at some point one of those gleaming new pickups that enters the market off the ramp at left will end it's life picked apart one doohickey at a time across the street.
One thing about uploading pictures chronologically, I always find myself more excited about what I shot in the last week or month than where I am in the constant battle to catch up. So it's nice to turn the page to 2025 and be just 10 months behind the present. Although there were no big photo trips in 2025, there were a number of small ones that I am excited to recap. January 1, 2025.
For Freight Car Friday here's one I took because it made me think of Frank Keller and Alaska. This well car is entrained on CSXT's hotshot daily Jacksonville, FL to North Bergen, NJ train I032 seen crossing the Washington Channel in East Potomac Parkat is about MP CFP 111.3 on modern day CSXT's RF&P Subdivision. Loaded on it are a pair of TOTE containers. Frank is very familiar with Totem Ocean Trailer Express as he dispatches trailers emblazoned with this logo between Anchorage and Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad forwarding traffic from the Port of Anchorage than arrives on the twice weekly (Sun and Tue) sailings of the TOTE ship from Tacoma. TOTE is a US flagged Jones Act carrier that is involved in the Alaska trade and the Florida to Puerto Rico trade which is where these containers likely came from. TOTE is a subsidiary of the Seattle based family owned company Saltchuk and and you can learn more here: www.totemaritime.com/
These rails leading from the Long Bridge over the Potomac River (out of sight to the left) are ex Pennsylvania Railroad and a few catenary poles remain as seen in this shot from the days when long freights behind electric motors headed for classification at the mighty and long gone Potomac Yard. And for another shot of this same train if you missed it check out this link: flic.kr/p/2op97Gp
The roof of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is visible at right center behind the spring trees and the 555 ft tall Washington Monument rises beyond. The building at left is the headquarters of the National Park Services National Mall and Memorial Park that admisters the monuments and federal parks throughout the District. Known as the US Engineers Storehouse this building was designed by noted local architectural firm Wood, Donn and Deming and built in 1913. The simplified Mediterranean Renaissance Revival style is covered in yellow painted stucco with a red terra-cotta tile roof. If you're at all curious to learn more about this pretty but relatively obscure (by Washington standards) building check out the National Register of Historic Places nominating form here: parkplanning.nps.gov/showFile.cfm?projectID=32387&MIM...
Washington, D.C.
Friday March 24, 2023
NT 30 CIF
Mercedes-Benz Actros 1845
Concorde International Freight Forwarding, Marsa, Malta (registered in Neamț, Romania)
Buckingham, 24 November 2020
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Daily Photo - Shopping in Tokyo at Night
My first night in Tokyo, I was so revved up that I went out to do a lot of night shooting! The streets were wet, and that is perfect for colorful cities at night. I found this unique gem not far from Rappongi.
The only bad thing is the occasional drizzle. I love my 14-24 lens -- but it seems to get wet so easily with that gnarly bulbous lens. I just wipe it down with my shirt.... that doesn't seem like the best thing to do, but it works well enough!
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