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I'm in New Orleans for a few days at a trade show. Had a muffaletta from the Central Market for lunch. Dinner was at Vincents, a local Italian place off the beaten path. Had to take the trolley to get there. Tomorrow probably will be barbecue oysters from Drago's. Can you tell New Orleans is all about the food?
Explored May 17 2011
With all the recent rain, I figured that the forecast overnight drop in temperature would lead to some mist formation so when I opened the curtains to the expected foggy morning I was ready to head straight out to the local woods. It's not the easiest spot for photography as the heavy undergrowth through most of it makes it hard to find an uncluttered composition, but I love this view across the brook. Unfortunately the fog didn't quite make it into the woods - maybe next time.
After what seemed like weeks of horrible overcast today was actually a sunny day. I took advantage and found the Cass Lake local passing through Fisher on its Monday trip east.
Located : Between Shimoyama station and Wachi station on San-in line of West Japan Railway Company.
Kyo-Tanba town, Kyoto pref.
JR山陰本線 / 下山駅 ～ 和知駅間にて撮影
京都府船井郡京丹波町和知
BNSF GP39-3 #2587 a former Santa Fe GP30 and GP39M #2897 are seen leading the twice weekly Pikes Peak Local south at Palmer Lake, Colorado - 09/03/2017
The rest of the photos from the trip now @ www.milepost39.co.uk/mp39.asp?do=trip&id=24
We’re Here! -- Famous People Pictures.
And for 123 pictures in 2023, topic 75 Piece of History
Sculpture by local artist, Shelley Kerr.
Considered the first Anglo settler in the Poudre Valley, Antoine Janis built a log cabin in 1858 to accommodate his Lakota wife, First Elk Woman, and their growing family. The valley had few inhabitants; Janis was the first to make it his home.
Janis had come to the area with his father as a youth and fallen in love with the valley, determined to settle here as soon as he could. After he married First Elk Woman, they trapped up and down the river, interacted with itinerant tribes, raised their sons, and lived peaceably. Janis was fluent in his wife’s tribal language and was friends with a number of tribal chiefs. Year upon year, the Janis family went quietly about their business.
Meanwhile, the U.S. government was intent on subduing all the tribes who had occupied the lands west of the Mississippi River before the westward emigration and confining them to reservations. In 1877, the government succeeded; tribes were dispersed to a number of designated areas.
This decree caused considerable consternation among the French-Canadian trappers who had married Lakota women, for the men were told that in order to keep the land they had claimed in the valley, they had to divorce their wives and abandon their families. The women and children were to go to the reservation; landowners had to stay behind. To a man, with one notable exception, the husbands chose to follow the decree.
The exception was Antoine Janis. Rather than divorce his wife of many years and desert his family, he moved to the reservation, where he lived out his life among the people of his wife’s tribe. Late in life he recorded his memories.
From
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/2018/04/01/history-po...
D1022 Western Sentinel heads through Keyham in the Plymouth suburbs on 1-2-75
I lived in Keyham during 1978 and it still had a lot to offer. A goods yard that was still used, some ecs workings lay over here. The then daily goods to Devonport Dockyard often marshalled it's stock on the return journey.
This is a photo from my collection with the original photographer Anthony Coombes a local enthusiast. I hold the copyright on this one.
After a nice beachside lunch we headed south with a stop for a rainy hike at the fabulous Riverbend Park in Jupiter. After that the plan was to head south toward Fort Lauderdale with two goals, photograph some TriRail commuter trains and visit Funky Buddha Brewing....alas only one would be achieved. I got some mid day intel from a friend that only one F40 was in rotation for the day and by the time I got that info and checked the time I realized we had an hour drive and if Google was right we'd arrive two minutes before the train.
I was hoping that TriRail ran like the T but alas they were spot on time so I had no margin of error. After just under an hour out we were 5 min from the destination when one wrong tuen sent us up the wrong Interstate ramp and that was all she wrote....the 6 min delay that incurred made the endeavor hopeless and I never got another chance as this was the sole EMD out working this day and it wouldn't return until after dark from Miami....
Feeling pretty dejected I decided to at least check if FEC had anything going on and hearing some chatter on the radio I found Fort Lauderdale local train 906 running light off the Port Everglades spur with GP40-2s 428 and 418 (built new for the railroad in Aug. 1980 and Oct. 1974 respectively). Having come off PEV1 and cleared the north end of Port Everglades interlocking at MP 343.46 they are now starting back south to head down the East Main through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport tunnels under runways 10R-28L to gather up a train in the east storage tracks that they will take down to Hialeah Yard. This view looks south from between the opposing signals of the interlocking as they pass under the impressive four track wide signal bridge.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Saturday December 28, 2024
CN local L501 was sporting a former Wisconsin Central GP40 as its motor on a nice autumn afternoon in 2007. At the time, WC power was still pretty common, but the handwriting was on the wall that the good stuff was on the way out.
A dull wet day means less folk and more birdlife, so off we trot to a favourite local site and area, not guaranteed so it's a case of get down settle in cover-up and be quiet, it's a waiting game.
CSXT Middleboro based local B727 (now officially known as L007) led by GP40-2 6237 (blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4335 in Chessie System paint) and two sisters are switching on the Myles Standish Industrial Lead. They will spot one reefer at Americold and pull one from Reinhart Foodservice at the end of track before coming back here to work the busy New England Waste Disposal transfer station whose lead track is in the foreground. This branch is accessed from Attleboro Junction at MP 8.6 on the Middleboro Secondary a bit over a half mile behind me here.
The Middleboro Sub is strange in that it is owned by MassDOT and dispatched and maintained by Mass Coastal, but CSX still operates it and serves the customers as the direct corporate successor of CR, PC, NH, and all the way back to the Old Colony Railroad. In fact this particular segment of line here on the Myles Stabdish was opened in 1836 by OCRR predecessor Taunton Branch Railroad making it one of the oldest rail routes in New England. Becoming a mainline for the Old Colony it survived as a secondary through route under New Haven aegis seeing its last passenger train pass shortly before the connection with the shoreline was severed at Mansfield in 1955 to make way for a highway grade separation project.. The tracks into Mansfield center lasted until about 1966 for freight service served from this end, but then were abandoned leaving only the present 1.5 mile stub still in use today up to the large industrial park.
Taunton, Massachusetts
Tuesday March 15, 2022
CN's L551 local cruises south through the rural area of Hayes, IL right after sunset with a Canadian-cabbed Dash 9 leading an Illinois Central SD70.
The BNSF Buck Local with GP38M No. 2828 in the lead makes its way back to Longmont CO From Highland on a beautiful spring afternoon.