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While waiting for the sun to set, we hiked on top of this limestone cliff where I captured Finding Fayette: A Ghost Town in the UP Michigan from an overlook directly across from the townsite.
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"This limestone cliff consists of vertical or near-vertical exposures of bedrock.
Like all of Michigan’s lakeshore cliffs, vegetation cover is sparse but abundant cracks and crevices combined with calcareous conditions result in greater plant diversity and coverage than on most other cliff types. "
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After visiting Kitch-iti-kipi in Palms Book State Park, we explored Fayette Historic State Park which featured a historic townsite, harbor slips, a boat launch, a beach and some hiking trails. The harbor was surrounded with some impressive west-facing limestone cliffs.
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"The vertical structure of cliffs causes constant erosion and restricts soil development to the cliff edge, cracks, ledges, and the base of the cliff where organic matter and soil particles can accumulate. The thin soils and direct exposure to wind, ice, and sun produce desiccating conditions that limit plant growth. However, cliff aspect and local seepages result in a variability of site moisture conditions. "
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The limestone formed as sediments in a tropical sea which covered most of Ireland approximately 350 million years ago.
Eleven years ago today, this was the power for the Proctor Roadswitch as BLE 900, 906, and 909 brought limestone empties down to Duluth on March 28, 2011.
All three of these units still work out of Proctor with the 900 now in CN paint. The orange 906 and 909 were just paired up on the T-Birds this March '22, but I didn't make it up there this time before 909 broke down and they were broke up.
The North River stone schoolhouse is a one-room building constructed in 1874 of coarse native limestone. It closed in 1945 and is located just north of Winterset, Iowa. Mobile photo.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0. Color-graded in Photoshop.
The limestone pavement at the top of Malham Cove, England, The clints are the blocks of the pavement, the grykes are the fissures that separate them (in case anyone was wondering).
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A throwback to summer, and a day out volunteering for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Gordale Scar from high above, and a small area of Limestone Pavement which begs to be photographed.Single shot, handheld at f8.
Constructed in 1882, the historic Chicago & Northwestern Railway Stone Arch Bridge is is a popular stopping point along the Stone Bridge Trail that today runs along the former railway bed between Rockton and Roscoe in Winnebago County, north of the City of Rockford. The double-arch bridge, which crosses over South Kinnikinnick Creek, is made of dolomitic limestone. The bridge replaced an earlier wooden structure, and was a key element in the local sand quarry commerce which supplied Chicago, 90 miles to the east, with the necessary elements for masonry and concrete construction materials.
The C&NW RR Stone Arch Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
I love limestone cliffs, and these at Stackpole Head in Pembrokeshire are stunning against the blue green sea. It was a day of clearing skies, so Chase the dark away by Jim White is OK
The location is Markyate Cell Estate (Hertfordshire). We are in the Chilterns, basically a limestone plateau. Limestone is porous and able to store huge amounts of water, often subterraneously. The River Ver runs through the middle of the image - after weeks of heavy rain, that is. But it has been dry for a while. And if there is any water, then it is not on the surface. Fuji X-Pro1.
(Antrim coast, Northern Ireland)
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
(2nd Samuel 22:47)
CN's empty limestone trains make for a spirited chase compared to the speed-restricted ore loads on the former DMIR in Minnesota near Kelsey.
CN 2032 leads an empty limestone train around an S-curve in Culver, MN bound for Proctor.
Going home with a sunny shot here didn't seem possible as our first day was cloudy, and the following two days had no southbounds running late-morning. All hope was lost since the weather forecasted was cloudy. However, the clouds broke free and we were able to get two trains in sun here.
The afternoon Proctor Switch (R922) pulls Minorca limestone around the Spirit Mountain Curve on August 30, 2020. I haven't been out to shoot in September much but here's one from a couple of weeks ago. The same EMDs continue to keep holding down most of the limestone and ore assignments for CN out of Proctor as we start Q4 2020.
The lead BLE 909 still looks pretty good in the Bessemer orange paint that Proctor applied when they rebuilt the tunnel motor for their Transtar sister road 20 years ago. The 909 and 903 would be the first BLE engines assigned to Proctor by CN in 2005. It's hard to believe this orange tunnel motor has spent the last 15 years up here.
Another shot of Ingleborough seen from the White Scar Plateau just before the cloud blew in on a strong South Westerly winter wind.
A trio of CN Dash 8's have just reached the top of Proctor Hill with a long cut of Limestone loads for Mintac in Mountain Iron, MN. Further down the hill this train was having major some slippage issues with the wet rails. Crew was reporting that they were having a hard time maintaining speeds of over 3 MPH around Collingwood.
Another old limestone farmhouse. Not the same as last place which was in Wisconsin - this is the Mooney Farmstead in Iowa.
On the surviving stub of the Buxton to Ashbourne line, 60045 'The Permanent Way Institution' is a couple of miles into it’s short journey from Hindlow after taking a train of limestone from Buxton Lime Industries’ Tunstead Quarry to the kilns at Hindlow works.
Use of rail for what would be a 12 mile road journey is mandated to reduce lorry usage in the town of Buxton. Hindlow ceased quarrying in 1987 and since has been the site of two gas-powered kilns which are fed with limestone from nearby Tunstead.
A liberal scattering of limestone covers the front and top of the locomotive: the apparent exhaust fumes are actually a swirl of limestone dust.