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Mike Manwiller and Devin Lloyd confer about moves to be made in the Heber Valley Railroad yard, Heber City, UT.
66771 leads 3Q00 the 14:56 Tyne Yard to Tyne Yard weedkiller train away from Freeman's Crossing on the Blyth & Tyne Line on 11th April 2022. Tail locomotive was 66797.
FAR TOO MANY BOOKS IN MY OPINION.
And there were two other carts just like that one to go with it.
It was like the entire library was on a cart, waiting for me to put it ALL away. T^T
A short Iowa Northern Oelwein job en-route to Fairbank, Iowa I assume. I heard this guys train horn blasting, and found it passing thru the Linden Yard and I pestered the crew at four grade crossings photographing them. They were probably glad to see me go !
BTW IANR461 is one of two units with HEP generators to power the Hawkeye Express trainset which is used during University of Iowa football season, and for the Snowflake Express train
Having led 73961 & 73963 on 1Z10, GBRf no. wait to leave Bristol Temple Meads P5 to take the tour to Pengam Sidings via the Severn Beach Line, Hallen Marsh & the Severn Tunnel. 1Z10 was the first leg of the 4-day "GBRf 2018 - Out of the Ordinary" tour, running from Victoria to Port Talbot Signal 3462, just beyond Bridgend.
It's been a long while since I've jumped in on a themed photo week, so I'm kicking off a homage to one of my all-time favorite figures with "Snow Job Week!"
This is my childhood Snow Job that I bought in 1983, and while I've kept him in near mint condition he's yellowed all over the place despite being stored in a vintage GI Joe "collectors" case. Even his skis are different shades of yellow?! Crazy.
A new caption from one of my pictures. I hope you like the story.
Eine neue Bildgeschichte aus einem meiner Bilder. Ich hoffe, Euch gefällt die Story.
One of my favourite movies - the original one from the 60's with Michael Caine (my name is Michael Caine) is The Italian Job. Yesterday I had a bit of a crisis - I own a fiat and there are not too many of them here in Australia and the induction hose to the intercooler needed replacing . My mechanic told me I could not drive very much and would have to wait up to 6 weeks for this small tube thing to arrive from Italy. I checked out the rental car places and everything was sold out due to the high number of tourists in Sydney at Christmas/New Year. I was so stressed out thinking that I could not go anywhere during my holidays to meet up with friends and also to take shots(you rate the importance ;)).
So I got on the 'job' and googled like crazy, rang every fiat person in Australia - nobody had the part. Until finally I came across Vincenzo who ran a Fiat/Alfa workshop about 45 minutes away - however he was closing the next day for 10 days and there was a slim possibility that he could do something but told me to get over by 4 (it was now 2.45) and he would see. I put my pedal to the metal and weaved through christmas traffic to arrive at 3.55 yesterday. He took a look and gave me the wonderful news that he could fix it for me. Joy to the World !.
He had some beautiful old vintage fiats and alfa's there - I was so happy just looking at them as he examined my car.
He then said he could give me an alfa overnight as a courtesy car until today for pickup - I said 'Grazie Vincenzo - I am happy to take that Alfa 2000 home with me' . He bent over laughing calling me a crazy girl and then went to get the 'other' alfa for me - whilst he was gone I took a few shots and thought well if I cannot take it home with me in person at least I can take it home with me digitally ;).
Thanks to Cy for demonstrating how cars can be such beautiful subjects in photography - check out the master at work : www.flickr.com/photos/46230766@N02/15097760724/
NOTHING gets in the way of a job. Not even an innocent maintenance man who happened to have been there on the spot. Collateral damage happens, and the job goes on.
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I might be in love with Brickarms and custom weapons now. This is the first 'modern' themed build of mine (aside from all the fantasy and mech stuff).
This male Osprey has dropped off breakfast for it's mate and chicks and will go perch on a nearby tree.
this is all kirsty's fault.
1. my name is not really crack jackson jr.
in my first year in college, i made a play called 'tex and ned'. as the director, i called myself crack jackson, after a character in a crazy story i had written some time before. the show began with music from the soundtrack to the monkees' film head, 'swami with strings', which cuts directly to teri garr's line -
'suck it before the venom reaches my heart'
- upon which point, i, tex, hurled myself through the newspaper-covered walls of the living room set, throwing up handfuls of flour to simulate dust, and proceeded to argue with the other character, ned, for roughly twenty minutes of stage time. we ate raw eggs, delivered long speeches about the futility of war, and beat the shit out of each other on numerous occasions. the only other character's job was to throw a brick through the window, then appear at the end, waving, as we danced offstage to the strains of 'beetles bones n smokin stones' by captain beefheart. it was insane, beckett-lite nuttiness and we all should have known better.
a few years ago, a friend of mine whose name is frank decided to start a website called 'crack jackson' in honour of this fallen comrade. it doesn't exist anymore, but it was fun while it lasted. he also joined flickr, and called himself crack jackson. he was the one who introduced me to film photography, and to this site. so when i joined, i called myself junior.
and now you know.
4. it's not important to most people, but i dearly love ice. i have lots of ice in pretty much every beverage i drink, apart from tea and coffee - unless i'm in america, in which case i'll have ice in them as well. america knows how to serve ice. in ireland, you're given approximately two lumps of ice per beverage if you're lucky, so i always make sure to ask for an extra glass full of ice, and i use it, too.
i also deeply love pickles. not the sweet ones - i love the sour dill pickles you get as a side with sandwiches in dark delis in los feliz, ca. you can't get them in ireland, and that makes me sad. on my last trip to america i tried to smuggle out a jar of pickles in my carry-on luggage, but they were discovered by a prickly customs guy and never returned. i like to think the customs guy went home, placed the jar of pickles on the family table, and said, 'pickles, for my family'. and his family all came and embraced him, touched by this gesture, and they sat and broke bread and drank wine and ate the pickles with some savoury side dishes. then it will all have been worthwhile.
9. for work, i have had to learn how to:
ride a horse, drive an army jeep at high speed, fence, walk a 30 foot high tightrope, have non-poisonous snakes dropped on me, invade iraq, play the double bass, theoretically invent time travel (not as easy as it sounds)
i have had to pretend to be:
a serial killer, the king of france, a soldier in the first world war, a soldier in the second gulf war, a misunderstood zombie, a cajun cowboy, a russian journalist, a french priest, a turkish trapeze artist, an annoying american kid who gets mangled by a large evil roaming monster
i have pretended to die of:
drowning, suffocation, suicide, gunshot wounds, being chopped in two, being mangled by a large evil roaming monster
5. i sometimes worry that i am never going to take a good shot ever again. i'm worrying about it right now.
13. i went to the stanley kubrick archives in london recently. you get to ask for whatever you want.
'maybe some random stuff from 'the shining'?'
so i got to hold the photo at the end of the film with jack at the overlook halloween ball in 1921. pre-photoshop, it's remarkably done, and the negative is also there, where you can see the circle of jack's head immaculately replaced over the original head.
'some random photos from 'full metal jacket'?'
so i got hundreds of shots of toy soldiers playing out scenes in a toy vietnam. SK storyboarded shots in this way. i never knew that before.
and so on. it's well worth going to. here's a doc on the boxes..
8. i am inspired by so many people on flickr it's not fair to make a list. but flickr people who have changed the way i think about photography include gary isaacs, jordi gual, edwardolive, quizz, lucy_nka, hello suckers, the amazing greek photographers (minas, yannis, fragitsa, philby), the incredible mike garlington, brett walker, kirsty, piotr, billy gomez (please read his 'tagged' post. it's the best, ever), noah k, derrickT, paula, solecism, rob_fuel, susan, ansel, ceci, chiara, parallax(e), thank u very little, this fleeting life, dave g, hugh_c, elena and solarina to name but a few. [p/script - rip rob fuel*]
10. i've just realised my favourite actor is teri garr. coincidentally, she is also my favourite actress as well.
6. i have about 1000 VHS tapes gathering dust in my parents' house, mainly taped from the tv, including, for some godforsaken reason, 'under the rainbow', the unwatchable chevy chase/carrie fisher making-of 'wizard of oz' movie. i can't throw any of them away, for fear that someday i may need to see one of them. [p/script - I have thrown a lot of them away. this is progress, right?)
14. i am living under the fundamentally absurd belief that scientists will invent a cure for death within my lifetime, and therefore none of us will ever die. this will lead to overcrowding, naturally enough, but i'm assuming they'll work out something for that too.
7. i have been given the money to direct another short film, which will hopefully shoot in early april. it's about a young woman with autism who attempts suicide, and as part of her recovery is brought to the west of ireland to learn how to surf. it's going to be the most difficult and exciting thing i've ever done.
2. i like using photoshop in my photos. sometimes i use too much photoshop. it's hard not to, once you get started.
12. i develop my black and white photos with a changing bag, and diafine/fixer. there is still a quiet thrill in taking out the wet reel to see if the shots came out or not. i ordered c-61 to do colour as well, but it never came, and i breathed a frustrated, empty sigh.
3. i sometimes use my flickr page for work. and some of my friends and family know about it. so this is not really the place for me to open my heart. i'll just say that i am really close to my parents and my brother and they are amazing, supportive people and i love them to bits.
15. my philosophy can be summed up in two simple phrases, and i didn't dream it in a dream either - eat good food as often as you can, and be nice to people.
16. 'he'd kill us if he got the chance'
boom *
Daily Dog Challenge: Pro
Etta thinks it's her job to flush little critters from leaf & stick litter. Mostly lizards, hopefully not snakes!
I enjoy watching her because it reminds me of a coyote we saw in action in Yellowstone in 2013 :)
Another photo using the in-camera App:- Picture Effects- Watercolour
Before the blue paint, CMQ #1 heading west at Tarratine on the Moosehead Sub behind 3 RED Barns and a tunnel motor.
Y197 comes up the City Market lead after switching out Columbian Distribution. Meanwhile a forklift unloads a TBOX at Michigan Natural Storage.
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WC's Manitowoc Job passes over a moveable drawbridge at Menasha, WI. I recall having to be in Wisconsin early on this morning to attend traffic court as this FIB could have been speeding on a previous visit to the cheddar curtain. I ended up making a day of it around Neenah and Fond Du Lac. I remember stumbling around Neenah/Menasha as I chased this guy and had to visit Googlemaps to find this location recently to jog some memory cells!
1507 was a former Algoma Central unit that looked good in the WC dress.
10-24-2001