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An ATW twin car Class 143 Pacer unit coupled with a Class 142 twin unit at the front (a common combination on the Valleys lines) are seen passing the old Hetty Shaft near Trehafod in the Rhondda Valley between Porth and Pontypridd, working a Cardiff Treherbert service.
The Hetty shaft was sunk in 1875 by The Great Western Colliery Company. The Hetty pit was one of the four pits of the Great Western Colliery, which supplied coal for the locomotives of the Great Western Railway. By 1918, 3,162 men were employed at the Great Western. The Hetty shaft closed in 1926 but remained as an up-cast shaft for the Tymawr Colliery. In 1958, the Great Western Collieries amalgamated with the nearby Lewis Merthyr Colliery and in 1969 the combined collieries were known as Tymawr & Lewis Merthyr Collieries. The last coal was raised at Tymawr in 1983 and the collieries demolished soon afterwards. The only surviving relic of the mine today is the head frame, and the winding house, which is a Grade I listed building. The winding house and engine are now being renovated by volunteers.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
The High Line Park is a 1.45 mile park on a converted disused rail line that used to run above part of Manhattan. Its really a really good place to visit and chill.
A going away shot of an eastbound on the Baltimore Belt Line soars over the Northern Central in October 1978. This is the companion shot to a slide scanned a few years ago, I just so happened to uncover the second slide from a recent bulk slide purchase. No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
This image features a detailed ink drawing of an old abandoned cottage with crumbling brick walls and overgrown vegetation, rendered in a watercolor wash style.
Created by Diney on Feb 18, 2026 using the Ink Wash Paint AI image generator model.
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I am taking a look at indoor images just now as it has rained here almost non-stop for weeks. These are some of my Apple files.
Video: youtu.be/Ye-J12oDw-I
Two former Soo Line GP9s rest outside of the grain elevators in New Ulm, MN. Originally built for passenger trains, these units still retain their 'torpedo' tubes, and faded Soo Line paint. The pair of locomotives have an uncertain fate; they are currently sitting dead, stakes capped, and listed for sale.
Nov 23rd, 2024, New Ulm, MN.
LSRM's FP7A 2500 on display on the stub track at Union Depot for "Train Days".
2016 was the first year "Train Days" was independent of the "National Train Day" banner, an event Amtrak was slowly moving away from but carried on by organizations across the nation.
This was LSRM's first appearance at Train Days. Soo 2500 was part of a intentional class of display equipment to commemorate Union Depot's 90th Anniversary. Though SPUD's history goes back much further, the current building and configuration was completed in 1926.
The historically significant assortment of equipment displayed in 2016 was all equipment that had served Union Depot at one point in its history. This equipment included GN 325 and NP 1102 from MTM, Soo Line 2500 from LSRM, Milwaukee Road 261 and a collection of Milwaukee Road cars, and Amtrak brought out their exhibit train, with this event being the exhibit train's final public appearance.
Human tongue cannot express the lightness, the clarity, the simplicity, the wonderful harmony which completely dispels all sense of heaviness…. A sea of light pours from above and dominates all this space, enclosed and yet free …. It creates a sense of inner transparency; the weightiness and limitations of the small and suffering self disappear; the self is gone, the soul is healed of it, losing itself in these arches and merging into them. It becomes the world: I am in the world and the world is in me…. This is indeed Sophia, the real unity of the world in the Logos, the coinherence of all with all, the world of divine ideas. It is Plato baptized by the Hellenic genius of Byzantium…. How true was our ancestors’ feeling in this temple, how right they were in saying that they did not know whether they were in heaven or on earth! Indeed, they were neither in heaven nor on earth, they were in St. Sophia—between the two: this is the metaxu of Plato’s philosophical intuition. St. Sophia is the last silent testimony to the future ages of the Greek genius: a revelation in stone.
-From an autobiographical essay called “Hagia Sophia,” cited in Andrew Louth, “Wisdom and the Russians: The Sophiology of Fr. Sergei Bulgakov,” in Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church, and the Contemporary World, ed. Stephen C. Barton (Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 1999), 169-81, at 178.