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CN 2000 North starts its trip out of Proctor Yard with a 19:00 U719 for Minorca Mine on the evening of June 27, 2022. In the background, limestone trains for both Minntac and Utac are parked ready for their overnight trips to the Range.
These U719s got a late start running limestone this season to Minorca this year and began a little over a week ago. During the summer, all three CN-served taconite plants on the Iron Range receive stone trains from Duluth/Proctor making Proctor Hill and the Missabe Sub. a little bit busier.
A year ago, CN 2112 leads 60 loads of Minntac limestone around the curve at Spirit Mountain on April 8, 2016. Solid trios of C40-8s were regulars on the limestone when Utac was out of commision in 2015-2016. The 2100-series C40-8s weren't needed on T-Birds, so they mostly got the limestone assignment. When Utac reopened in Fall 2016, these 2100s went back to T-Birds. Still trios of Dash 8s on the limestone trains in 2017, but the ex-SF wide cab versions seem to outnumber the few cowls and standard cabs in the two limestone sets.
I don't remember the snow being on the ground at this time a year ago.
This is such a wonderful piece of heritage for our area as there were many farmhouses built out of limestone. The Circa of this building is 1847 and has been beautiful maintained by the owners. I will take a picture of this lovely heritage home in the summer as the gardens are exquisite and and extensive. The people that presently live here are artisans and due to the art tours in this area I was able to visit inside. It would be as you would expect....glorious antiques...plank floors and wonderful stone fireplaces.....a true treasure of Canadian Heritage.
Castle Hill Basin is located in the Canterbury high country at an altitude of 700m approximately 90km northwest of Christchurch. It lies between the Torlesse and Craigieburn mountain ranges and is characterised by its distinctive limestone rock formations. These limestone rock formations are the water eroded remnants of limestone formed during the Oligocene age 30-40 million years ago when much of present day New Zealand was covered by the sea.
2041 shoving empties to the pit have just crossed the only public crossing on the railroad is about to meet loaded train 2030 that can be seen in the background however due to shift change the train wouldn't move until after dark.
Union Pacific GP38-3 No. 2521 and GP39-2 No. 2372 pull 20 loads of limestone through Leland, Utah on the Tintic Industrial Lead the morning of Sept. 22, 1998. The D&RGW hoppers were loaded at Geneva’s Keigley quarry in Genola and will be delivered to Geneva’s steel mill in Vineyard.
Yorkshire Dales,England. bit of a hot spot for taking photos of this lonesome tree in the limestone cracks.plenty got lost looking for this spot haha. And few fell down the cracks' went and felt the tree.
FIMX 4021 departs the Lhoist limestone mine in Crab Orchard, TN with the day's eastbound turn bound for the NS interchange in Rockwood. Besides the railroad's power, bits of the Southern's presence on the former Tennessee Central still survive, as evident by the old whistle board just outside the plant.
60074 'Luke' is seen leading 6F05 Tunstead-Lostock Works loaded limestone west at Mobberley - 12/06/2021
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Taken between Longnor, and Earl Sterndale,..With Chrome and Parkhouse Hills in the distance... November 2017 Peak District, Staffordshire UK
The limestone cliffs that shape the Ruta del Cares cup their palms to reveal an arch, Picos de Europa National Park, Asturias, España. Limestone is often highly eroded because the moderate acidity of rainwater slowly dissolves the carbonate that forms the basis of the rock. Limestone layers are thus often riddled with caverns and sinkholes, such as the great cenotes in the Yucatán peninsula of México. This is the only example of a limestone arch that I can recall encountering.
I'm assuming no one will mind that I'm reusing a backdrop that I bought/ photographed five years ago. 😁
The follow up to last night's shot is this view as the limestone rounded the curve at Spirit Mountain, pulling hard for Proctor.
If I had all the money in the world, I would have those wires buried under the tracks and that chain link fence torn out. Which means they will stay where they are until someone else who is luckier than I wins the lottery.
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When I left my body on a distant shore.”
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Found en France during a holiday in Normandy.
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Rio Grande’s 664 local works Geneva Steel’s limestone quarry in Genola, Utah the morning of Aug. 16, 1988. Crews complained that Geneva's poorly maintained trackage at Keigley lead to frequent derailments.
Doubleheaded 46115 and 35018 pass Horton on the northbound Waverley on 8/9/2019
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I managed to make it to my perch with two boots full of snow. An EMD four pack rounding the curve at Bear Trap as they rolled toward Proctor made it worthwhile. One of the shots from a great weekend of mornings along the track.
Lovely morning in the Dales to capture this amazing tree , had several visits before this one but the conditions have never been what I was looking for ............However today was perfect.
Whatever the weather, I always enjoy spending a couple of hours alone up here on this limestone plateau. The world rushes by far below on the M6 Motorway and it slows to a tranquil beauty up here with views in all directions of landscape beauty.
The Dales to the East, the Lakes to the North and Morecambe Bay to the West it is so well placed.
Anyway, I waited until well after sunset on this evening and I was treated to some lovely post sunset colour. The beauty of this time of year is that sunset is now so early ar 4.15 pm and you can enjoy its show and still get home for Dinner.
The world’s largest limestone mine..In Mønsted Limestone Caves there are more than 60 kilometres of underground paths. Some are as large as cathedrals and others are so narrow that a grown man cannot walk through them upright...From late medieval times until the 1820´s no big changes took place in the caves. From a hole formed like a shaft you gained access to the limestone. A ”hewer” loosened the limestone and the ”carriers” transported the stone to the field above.
The ”hewer” used the loosened limestone as a platform and so the tunnel often reached a height of several meters. Only big limestones were removed. Limestone debris and flints were left as a growing heap on the floor of the tunnel. As time passed, the carriers had to stoop in a narrow tunnel surrounded by heaps of flints.