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Wheels from an old irrigation line are stacked against a fence in Bennington, Idaho. The mountains are part of the Preuss Range of the Rocky Mountains. Despite thhe stormy looking clouds, the snow is starting to disappear from the southern slopes as spring approaches.
Back in May when I made the trek out to South Dakota and a stop by the LG Everist operations in Dell Rapids, this was the only interesting thing happening - a pair of very sharp GP9s parked and awaiting their next assignment.
DAIR 2505
DAIR 2501
Was neat to come upon quite a few of these beautiful birds on the trip, once again by far the best opportunity to photograph them..... wilson's phalarope
On an early windy spring day fluffy clouds dance across the horizon as if they are glad for the warming temperatures that will transform the fields surrounding this now silent and vacant barn and silo.
Sitting overturned with vestiges of old grass revealing it has been there for some time, an idled canoe tells a part of the story of a once busy farm-place brimming with the active enthusiasm of teenagers who have long left the farm for a different style of life. Now when an older farm couple enters their driveway they only see ghost figures from a segment of their lives that once seemed like it would go on forever.
A grainy, point-and-shoot 35mm image of Conrail OI-31 parked on the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ, waiting out the evening rush hour. This job worked customers on NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line. As difficult as it may be to believe today, there was so much business it required two crews to complete the work. An NB-37 crew would relieve OI-31 and head back to the yard after rush hour. At the time any Conrail local power in the form of SW1500s, GP10s, GP38s and even U23Bs could be found on this job.
Conrail WJOI-31:
CR 8181 GP38-2
CR 7547 GP10 (ex-NYC 5922 GP9)
I seem to have become addicted to making tiny LEGO robots.
I shot a lot of scenes with this little fella, but the simplicity of him sitting idle waiting for his next command (what ever that might be, his ridiculous round feet make most tasks difficult) was far better than anything else.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
François de La Rochefoucauld.
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. Source Wikipedia.
This morning came the long-awaited announcement that the almost-mythical East Broad Top had been sold to a nonprofit that hopes to resume operations in 2021.
Here, #15 comes back into Orbisonia southbound during the 2006 Fall Spectacular.
Looking down from the top of the smelter, inside where the 210 smokestack is located. The BC Copper Company smelter began operation at Greenwood BC in 1901, servicing ore from the Mother Lode Mine and other mines in the area. By 1910 the boom had passed and Greenwood's population was 1,500. At the end of WWI, the demand for copper dropped, and by 1918 the copper market was dead and the smelter in Greenwood lay idle. The following year it closed down permanently. Unlike many of its late brethren, this smelter has left behind a few reminders of its heyday, the main one being this 210 foot tall smokestack. In its lifetime, however, the smelter made quite a stir, spawning the City of Greenwood, which grew to a population of over 3,000 at its peak, then as quickly imploded to as few as 200 citizens soon after the smelter closed. Greenwood was incorporated as a city in 1897 and remains a city - the smallest in Canada, both in population and area - now with a population of less than 700.
LNER Class 91 No. 91105 crosses the River Idle on the approach to Retford while heading service 1D09, 1003 London King's Cross - Leeds on 23rd November 2023. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
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