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Today's journey from Fort Murchison to Fort Portal was to take 14 hours - longer than it took to travel from London to Uganda!
This was one of the better roads we encountered.
Waiting at didcot station late at night after a trip to Bristol. Bit spooky when the big freight trains whizz past.
These ferries are very handy. They dock quickly and neatly alongside. The side door opens and a pair of ramps are lowered. Elevators raise pallets to dock and forklift level. The ramp in the forground is for cars. They are lowered by another elevator to the car deck. A stop can be as short as fifteen or twenty minutes!
Title: Freight Yard
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20864954
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Strommen, Arnold
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb61f051
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
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First time I saw a moving freight train on this track!
The old narrow-gauge railway line still exists and is still used by one train a day from three different locations into town in the morning, and the same three trains back in the evening. I have never yet understood why this line is not pushing trains to and fro every 20 minutes -- there would certainly be demand for the service!