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Murbach • Haut-Rhin • Alsace • France
Hidden Desires, Mellor
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Wearing: Thalia Heckroth - Martha Dress (MAITREYA) Blue Zodiak
Great fit and lovely textures.
Day two of my weekend sojourn to Reading and Northern country yielded three decidedly different trains and a chance to photograph in some new locations and some I'd visited before. Tops on the list for the day was this spot, one of the signature locations on the modern day RBMN mainline. This is the famous Hometown High Bridge, a more than 1000 ft long steel trestle that stands 168 (or 161 or 157 depending on where you look!) feet above the Little Schuylkill River at its highest point. This is MP 107.3 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline, though historically this was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Nesquehoning Branch.
A little history of the line courtesy of Rush Township's home page:
The Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company, part of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, built a 17-mile rail spur from Mauch Chunk (modern-day Jim Thorpe) to Tamanend that was finished in 1870. It connected with rail lines that were leased and operated by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company near Tamanend. This major freight and passenger rail interchange was at the small village of Haucks, which no longer exists today but was near the current Air Products facility near Quakake. Throughout the late 1800s, there were railroad interchanges in Haucks, Tamanend, and Quakake.
On March 23, 1871, the Nesquehoning-Tamanend line became part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), which leased many LC&N assets on that date.
Millions of tons of anthracite coal and freight would pass over that rail line in the early 1870s, and the demand for anthracite coal reached historic heights. In 1874, a financial panic led to a downturn in anthracite demand that would last several years. The CNJ, which had continued to rack up debts as it leased other anthracite assets across Eastern Pennsylvania, could not meet its financial obligations. The company continued to operate until the 1920s, at which point the United States Supreme Court ordered CNJ and other railroads that owned coal companies to divest (that is, to separate the coal companies from the railroad companies) because their joint operations violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Hepburn Act. By 1921, the Central Railroad of New Jersey was out of the coal business – and railroad traffic on Rush Township railbeds continued to decline.
The Nesquehoning-Tamanend line features the railroad “High Bridge,” which spans the Little Schuylkill River at a height of 157 feet. The bridge is cited in historical documents dating back to at least the early 1880s. The bridge, formally called the Hometown Trestle, is 981 feet long. The original bridge was a massive wooden structure, but it was rebuilt out of steel in 1931.
About an hour after the RDCs passed on their way to Jim Thorpe, another passenger train appeared. This time it was the 11 AM excursion out of Tamaqua, the first of three of the day running as part of the community's Tamaqua Summer Fest events. Leading the way is RBM 425, a high-drivered 4-6-2 light Pacific built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern that has been a staple of passenger trains on and off for nearly four decades. The excursion would end here at the bridge and GP38-2 2011on the south end would tow them back south.
Rush Township, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021
The local time was 0409. Add in about an hour's drive from my house to this iconic spot on the Tokaido Main Line, and I was basically pulling an all nighter. Looking back, it was worth it in the end.
The 1960's built EF65's days were numbered, and I made it my mission to capture them in operation on the famed Tokaido Main Line as often as I could. Down below during the middle of the early morning freight rush, an Osaka bound intermodal train crosses over the bridge at Ishibashi while the sky lights up with orange. Land of the Rising Sun indeed.
I honestly can't believe the camera handled ISO 10000 this well.
JR Tokaido Main Line
JRF EF65 (Train 1055?)
Ishibashi, Kanagawa Pref., Japan
Things get a little contrasty in the yard at midday, but this bird did just the right move. Goldfinch, backyard Olympia.
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High Level and Swing Bridge, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
Realizada con el portafiltros LucrOit, especialmente diseñado para el Nikkor 14-24, usando un filtro HiTech degradado de 2 pasos para controlar las luces del cielo.
Taken with the LucrOit filter holder, specially built for the Nikkor 14-24, using a HiTech gradient (2 stops) filter for the light in the sky
Hi folks, this is the image I wanted to post before taking a little holiday with the kids and grand kids. It's saying goodby for a week or so and a fond farewell to the 2011 season, or a high five to a wonderful ( I so hope ) 2012 season. However you may interpret it, thank you all so very much and will see you all back here in 2012.
I wish I could slide my c0<|< inside and stuff my nose in that intoxicating aroma... wait a minute... I did :-)
How about you guys?
Original Artist’s print.
Print Type – Cyanotype, toned.
Paper – Aquarelle artistic paper, acid free.
Image Size - 13x13 cm
Finished Size - 20x20 cm
Framing – matted, comes in a handmade and hand painted ecofriendly wood frame with a glass
Signed - originally signed and stamped by the Author
Date of Creation – 2014
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