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Local men dress in white for a yearly tribal festival in one of the villages in Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India.
While Cade and Grumpy were our shooting a clean consist of power on a train yesterday I decided to stay home with the family and prevent the potential for the start of WW3. I’m still not sure if my diplomacy will be rewarded or if I’ll have to resort to direct action or guerrilla warfare. It’s still too early to tell.
So today I was pleasantly surprised by the M-TPTP local being slightly ahead of schedule and had a matched pair of clean GP60’s in great sun. So I popped the drone up over the trees and hoped that I wouldn’t hit any branches and snagged this image and still managed to keep my truck out of the frame.
I know some folks hate shooting in the winter because of all of the dead trees and the brown landscape, but damn how can you argue with being able to shoot all day long with the low sun angle? This shot was taken at 1000 and we still have shadows twice the height of the locomotives. We have about another 8 weeks of great light before we get too close to the Spring solstice and we only get to shoot mornings and evenings.
I hope all of you had a great holiday and didn’t piss off Santa too much. Because by this time next year we’ll all be in the bread line waiting for our chance at getting a loaf and avoiding a real life Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.
A quiet Saturday walk through local villages leads to the annual Festa in Sobreiro - and a local lady kindly gives us a huge Pumpkin - so tonight's menu includes baked Pumpkin
I met this guide in Sri Lanka in January 2019, he was very interesting to talk to and as you can see he has a stunning head of hair. (I’m very jealous!)
Smoky Bay.
This pretty little bay was named by Matthew Flinders in 1802 as the bay was covered with hazy smoke, possibly from fires lit by the local Wirangu people. He called it Smoky Bay. Pastoralism was established in the 1860s by Charles Heath who established Wallanippie sheep station. But in 1893 a series of Hundreds were declared along the West Coast. The Hundred of Wallanippie was declared then and Smoky Bay was founded. In 1899 the government built water tanks at Wallanippie to encourage settlers. The brush cutters moved in to clear some of the land around 1905. A government jetty was built so farmers could export their grain in 1913 and a government school opened in 1909. A Post Office opened soon after 1909 with a telegraph station in 1911. The Methodist Church began services and mission work in 1912. When the original church was destroyed in a storm in 1947 a new church was built in 1952 which is now the Community Church. Water was a problem and in 1916 the government built a half acre iron roof to catch rainwater for the tanks. Piped water from the Tod reservoir reached Smoky Bay in 1930. Today Smoky Bay is a holiday area, a town for retirees and for local fishermen and oyster cultivation. It has two oyster processors. Smoky Bay oysters vie with those of Coffin Bay for popularity. It also has sporting facilities, a licensed general store, two caravan parks, a CFS station etc. It has a population of around 200 people. Its official name was only changed from Wallanippie to Smoky Bay in 1940. The nearest school is 45 kms away in Ceduna.
Local !
In my town, we can do many things . Sports, Wine road, Arts, Restaurants... We have a lot of tourists here, summer and winter time.
Since the beginning, I have taken a lot of pictures of my town with the ski mountain. Today, I wanted to show you another side of my town. We can practice a lot of sport here. We have riding stable. (We have received the olympic sport equestrian in 1976).
We can ski, hike and ride a mountain bike on the mountain. We have two beautiful golf course, a bike path and even a water park !
My town looks a lot like Lake Placid in New York state USA.
In 2000, my town bought the old Velodrome. It comes from Atlanta. It's was built for the Olympic game of Atlanta in 1996. And now, athletes from our area practice their favorite sport. We are very proud of this :).
Today, it was really hot. 30 C ( 86F ). But two young woman were riding hard. I took a lot of pictures and I chose this one because, despite the hot day, she has a great smile!
The Somerville Local was switching in the yard at Somerville as we were driving by. Not often you see a triple unit consist of SD40's in 2021, so I stopped for a few photos.
This is BNSF train R-RDV0361-16I, with BNSF 1935 in original Cascade Green paint with safety stripes, BNSF 1681 in Heritage I, and BNSF 1671 in Heritage III.
BNSF 1935 was originally built as BN 7137 in January 1979. It was renumbered as BNSF 7137 after the merger, then renumbered to BNSF 1935 to make room for the ES44DC fleet.
BNSF 1681 was originally built as BN 6348 in March 1973. It was renumbered to BN 6808, then BNSF 6808 after the merger, then renumbered to BNSF 1681 to make room for the new ES44C4 locomotives.
BNSF 1671 was originally built as BN 8020 in March 1978. It was renumbered to BNSF 8020 after the merger, then renumbered again to BNSF 1671 to make room for the new ES44C4 locomotives. It was recently repainted in Heritage III scheme, from the old Cascade Green with safety stripes, which it wore all the way up to 2020.
Just one more different angle from this spot before moving on. CSXT's weekday West Springfield based local L012 has paused on its way east to Palmer to pull and is working the Construction Services spur located just off the main at MP QB89.8 on CSXT's Boston Sub (ex Boston and Albany mainline). Ex Chessie GP40-2s 6227 and 6245 are spotting up cement hoppers on the stub ended siding which is one of the few customers remaining accessed directly off the mainline.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Wednesday November 27, 2024
Frisian Flag 2017
Leuwarden, NL
The Dutch lads knew how to show off on their departures for each sortie
A little affected homeless, behaving like 12 year old. I was meeting him oftenly. One day he disappeared.
Bratislava, Slovakia, 2016
He was headed right into the patio area of a local restaurant, but we figured, "Why bother those folks." He made me quite nervous because tho he seemed to be just plodding along, they can move alarming quickly when they want to.
Its amazing what is seen through the hedgerows.I thought I would show you what I saw as I wondered around the local lanes.This led me to see this lonesome tree,then another one a bit further on.I also thought the hedging framed the tree quite well.Not as clear as I hoped,i will have to revisit.
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FI-1 pulls thru CPF FG with 2 empties from Plastician, for the west side of Fitchburg yard.
FI-1 374 2 cars.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
January 20, 2016
I grew up just a little bit west of the Carol Stream, IL industrial park back in the "Chicago Central" days, so I always get a kick out of shooting the local that works the line, as it's my "hometown" local. The train often rates about whatever "38-2" type of engine they have laying around, so there's quite a bit of variety to be had on it, such as this day when it drew an ex-EJ&E SD38-2.
A pair of former Oakway SD60s power today's L568 local as the power backs into Keenan Yard near Iron Junction, MN on Canadian National's Missabe Subdivision. Hiding in the background is DMIR 215, the last remaining SD38-2 in DMIR paint.
*Taken from a crossing as power was moving away from the camera.*
With morning temps already quite warm even Jasper slows down after a few mad sprints across the playing field. But not wanting to stop play entirely Jasper asks for a few "local lobs" while he cools down. I toss the ball high in the immediate vicinity so he can hone his jump-chomp coordination.
I had a couple recent comments that my watermark was too garish and distracting so I'm trying out a new one. That's Jasper's profile I used. Now taking any other suggestions for improvement