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Monkton Farleigh ammunition depot utilised an old stone quarry below a plateau some 450 feet above the valley floor in which ran the main line railway that was its principal source of supply. Before the depot could be commissioned, an efficient means was need to bring in ammunition from the railway at Farleigh Down Sidings. The sidings were just over a mile from the depot as the crow flies but more than four miles by road along steep and tortuous country lanes.
In November 1937 the Great Western Railway were contracted to lay the sidings and build a 1000 foot long raised loading platform complete with a narrow gauge track to carry the ammunition wagons. Outline plans had already been prepared to drive a mile long tunnel from the heart of the workings terminating in an underground sorting yard built beneath the sidings in the valley below.
These photographs, taken in January 2016, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
Rail First Asset Management's CM3302 (still in CFCLA livery) and Qube's 1104 load a Qube grain train at Cunningar in southern NSW, 18th February 2022. CFCLA became RFAM when Australian investors bought out the American owners of CFCLA.
This truck was hauling a single-axle trailer carrying an oversized load through Stayner, ON today. I saw it coming and jumped out of the car to grab a shot but forgot to turn on Steady Shot (turned off for table-top shots earlier) so it is a bit soft, and didn't have time to dial in Continuous Shooting to get try to avoid overlapping traffic. Not the shot I was hoping for, but not a total bust.
These used to be loading docks for trains.
I used the 'infrared' preset in CS3's new Black & White tool.
Staying Home Covid-19 is here and we all have to stay at home to halt the spread of the virus. We photographers are reduced to taking pictures in the house, so here are a few things of interest.
Photo Jumble Following some messages about my antique Lancaster Plate Camera, I decided to load it with a sheet of film to take a photo.
I used old fashioned emulsion with some very old fashioned developer. So, here we are. This is the sort of photo quality people were used to in the early part of the 20th century. I resisted the temptation to sepia tone the finished article.
Photographic Information
Taken on 10th May, 2020 at 1745hrs with a 1898 Lancaster Instantograph quarter-plate camera, through a 1922 Kodak Anastigmat 130mm ƒ/8.3 lens, illuminated by two studio flash lights, on Adox CHS ASA 100 monochrome cut film, developed in 1:50 Rodinal for 10 mins at 20°C with agitation every minute, scanned on an Epson 4490 Photo, post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
© Timothy Pickford-Jones 2020
Victory Liner Inc.- 8212
Bus No: 8212
Year released: 2013
Capacity: 45; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao-Lingayen via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac/Gerona/Paniqui/Camiling/San Clemente/Mangatarem/Aguilar/Socony
Body: Xiamen Kinglong United Automobile Co. Ltd.
Model: 2014 Kinglong XMQ6117Y3 Series
Chassis: Kinglong XMQ6102R
Engine: Yuchai YC6G270-30
Fare: Airconditioned
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Air Suspension
Taken on: October 13, 2018
Location: Romulo Highway, Brgy. Malacampa, Camiling, Tarlac
The Great Lakes ship Buffalo loading gypsum at the National Gypsum Company's facility in Alabaster Township, Michigan. Lake Huron.
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The Porter Brothers arrived from Randsburg in 1905 with 18 wagon loads of merchandise and built a store. The HD & LD Porter Store was the leading merchant in Rhyolite, Nevada. Customers were able to purchase groceries and fresh vegetables, clothing and assessories, mining supplies, hardware, lumber, furniture, hay, grain, and Studebaker wagons from this store. The store also offered freight animals for rent. Their slogan was, "We handle all good things but whiskey." Their first store in Rhyolite was located at Main and Esmeralda and opened in June 1905. The concrete, one story with basement and huge store front windows, building located on Golden Street was built in 1906. It was opened for business in November 1906. The lot was purchased for $1,200 and estimated building construction is $10,000.
The company had warehouses located in Beatty and Rhyolite, selling both wholesale and retail goods.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Industrialist Charles M. Schwab bought the Montgomery Shoshone Mine in 1906 and invested heavily in infrastructure, including piped water, electric lines, and railroad transportation, that served the town as well as the mine. By 1907, Rhyolite had electric lights, water mains, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, a school, an opera house, and a stock exchange. Published estimates of the town's peak population vary widely, but scholarly sources generally place it in a range between 3,500 and 5,000 in 1907–08.
Rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the financial panic of 1907 made it more difficult to raise development capital. In 1908, investors in the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, concerned that it was overvalued, ordered an independent study. When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding. By the end of 1910, the mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population dropped well below 1,000. By 1920, it was close to zero.
The Seattle waterfront and harbor are abuzz with activity on any given day. This series is just a small glimpse of all that "busyness".
I chose to use textures and emphasized color to capture the details...
LBLR: Grovebury loading point on the British Railways Leighton Buzzard - Dunstable line where sand was tipped from narrow gauge V skips into standard gauge wagons.
07/07/1963 [GB 558].
Re-enactors of the 3rd Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry load gear and supplies onto a Kennebec Central Mixed Train in the station area at Alna Center, Maine, during the June, 2024 "Road to Togus" event at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum. Although not historically accurate, because the Kennbec Central was not built until well after the Civil War, the re-enactors were present at this event to emphasize the connection between the KCRR and the National Soldiers Home in Togus, Maine, where hundreds of Civil War veterans lived out the rest of their lives in retirement.
a page about my favorite pair of shoes...
I have to give credit to two scrappers for this one:
first to scrappin barb for the idea and
second to nadinejust@blogspot.com for the design.
pp is from basic grey Hang 10 - anyone remember that line? from lonnnng ago.
The Royal Mail staff are busy loading the mail onto a now dedicated class 302/9 emu 302993, at Ipswich with a service to the capital.
9th July 1993
Pangasinan Solid North Transit Inc.- 1607
Bus No: 1607
Year released: 2010
Capacity: 45; 2x2 seating configuration
Route: Cubao/Balintawak-San Carlos via Dau/SCTEX-Concepcion/Capas/Tarlac/Sta. Ignacia/Camiling/Bayambang/Malasiqui
Body: Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.
Model: 2010 Yutong ZK6107HA Series
Chassis: Yutong ZK6107CRA
Engine: Yuchai YC6A240-20 (G52YA/G52MA)
Fare: Airconditioned
Transmission System: M/T
Suspension: Air Suspension
Taken on: August 28, 2017
Location: Mabalacat City Bus Terminal, Brgy. Dau, Mabalacat City, Pampanga
LS&I U30C 3008 and HLCX 5968 lead a cut of Tilden loads through Empire Junction as they head for Eagle Mills and put on a smoke show... kinda.
The Arcade & Attica Railroad's 1920 Alco Consolidation #18 brings a couple of empty covered hoppers down the interchange track on the west side of the village of Arcade, NY, heading for Arcade Junction and a connection with the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, just over half a mile ahead. There, the cars will be dropped on a siding for pick-up by the next local freight.
Although well-known for their steam tourist excursions, the Arcade & Attica is primarily a shortline freight railroad, serving agricultural and industrial customers with facilities along its line, which stretches northeast out of Arcade as far as North Java, NY. While freight ops on this line are primarily done with GE center-cab diesels, the railroad does occasionally make freight moves with the steam locomotive, if it happens to be hot when needed.
This image was captured during a May 2025 photo shoot on New York's Arcade & Attica Railroad, which featured Consolidation #18 hauling both freight and passenger consists. As of 2025, the Arcade & Attica is the only tourist railroad in New York State that regularly runs steam tourist operations.