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Hi everybody! Well I still don't have my new camera. The story of my life, right?! Anyways, I miss you all and being on Flickr so I'm posting something from the archives in the meantime. I'll try to be more active on here. And since I start school in 3 weeks, I'll be on my computer daily.
Thanks so much for stopping by my Flickr friends!
;)
37222 and one of its pals (thought to be 37375) descend from Chalmerston with blending coal for Killoch, near Laight's Farm crossing. Early 1990s.
CPKC's Fording River Sub is a 33 mile-long branch line serving 4 coal mines on the west side of Crowsnest Pass. The line was built in the early 1970's and features a steady stream of coal trains carrying Canadian carbon to the Pacific for export.
Here, at the far northern end of the line, CP 9354 slowly & steadily loads a coal train at the EVR Fording River Mine. The train is sized to match the length of the loading loop almost exactly, as the DPU has cleared the switch only a few car lengths before the head-end completes its circuit through the load-out.
Sharp eyes will note that's a spring switch, lined to the right for the inbound train but posing no issue for the outbound train to run through the switch against the points.
CPKC Coal Train
CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #9354
CP DRF-43 / AC4400 #9755
(DPU) CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #8949
Fording, BC
August 25th, 2025
VWD78 is seen at The Ward en route to Ratoath County Meath with a full load against a threatening sky.
Loading has begun. You can see the the slip has two tracks which line up with two tracks on the barge. I believe the sip has a way to move the barge right/left to line up the other tracks for loading.
The Port of Geelong is Victoria's second busiest, and grain transport (mostly wheat) is a major factor. Here a ship registered in Monrovia (the capital of African country Liberia) is loading. Ships like this are often referred to as having flags of convenience. Shipping companies often save millions of dollars registering ships in countries that offer little more than a paper registration. I do like the creative name though with a touch of the classical, "Minoan Courage".
The classic Laker John D. Leitch is at the CSX coal dock in Toledo on a sunny September evening for a load of coal. Toledo, OH 9/19/2022
Eley VIP 12 Gauge trap cartridges, size 7 24 gram. A brilliant cartridge, fast and capable, one of my favourites.
Getting 'the bird' from guitarist, Bow Campbell at Front End Loader's gig at The Republic Bar 27th April, 2018.
Full report and loads more photos here: www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com/urbex/2015/05/05/urbex-chateau-sous...
Internally the building had some clear signs of modernization in comparison to the much older external architecture. Château Sous Les Nuages or the Castle in the Clouds appears to have been left empty with much of the belongings left behind. There are some hint to attempts to renovate the place post abandonment, tool catalogues and timbers and other building materials but this castle appear to have been left once again...
Thirty minutes behind A439 we see CN train U716, an empty ore train headed to UTAC's Fairlane plant to load pellets and turn back to Proctor. The all EMD consist consisting of CN SD40-2W 5349 and repainted DMIR 'tunnel motors' 404 and 405 is approaching the Munger Shaw Rd. crossing at MP 14 on CN's North Division Missabe Sub mainline. Modern day CN's designation for this route pays homage to the historic former Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad which was incorporated in 1891, ran its first train in 1892 and built into Duluth proper in 1893. In 1938 the road was merged into the Duluth and Iron Range both long owned by US Steel to officially create the legendary Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
Passing overhead is MP 18.9 on CN's Rainy Sub, the former Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway mainline. Today the CN uses the two lines as a directional mainline for all their 'core' traffic which is how they refer to their non iron ore related thru trains to and from Canada. All southbound trains (manifest, grain, oil, intermodal etc.) take the Rainy while all northbound counterpartsuse the Missabe for a distance of about 60 miles between Nopeming Jct. on the south and Shelton Jct. on the north. But with both north and southbound ore and limestone trains using this lower line it sees far more traffic than it's counterpart overhead.
Unincorporated Munger
Solway Township
St. Louis County, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024
With just 3 wagons in tow, GBRf's 66763 Severn Valley Railway leads DB's 66005 Maritime Intermodal One with 6D44 Bescot Up Engineers Sidings to Toton North Yard.
SE5 is seen loading at the Iarnróid Éireann station in Wexford Town for the 2 Expressway service to Dublin/Dublin Airport.
Load line is a special marking positioned amidships which depicts the draft of the vessel and the maximum permitted limit in distinct types of waters to which the ship can be loaded.
I was at our local greengrocers today - I am now official guinea pig for Sharon's new recipe fruit/veg cakes and had been summoned to try out two of her new flavours - for free - doesn't get much better than that!
When I got there I saw a few pots of these pretty flowers. Had no idea what they were but as soon as I saw 'Rain Daisy' on the label I knew I had to have one for the theme! I took loads of this particular flower head with my Raynox and deleted loads too and in the end couldn't decide which to go for, so once again I've triptyched :-)
(just spotted it says taken on 9th April but it was actually yesterday 7th May - must have held the date I created the last triptych, which I copied from)