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The annual fair was always such a big deal I was thrilled to see it come to life at Old Town. Read more about this amazing place here on the SLuggle
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Midway Geyser Basin
Prismatic Spring
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The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego, California at Navy Pier. The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway. The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern Californi
The USS Midway was the United States' longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century, from 1945 to 1992. Approximately 200,000 sailors served aboard the carrier, known for several naval aviation breakthroughs as well as several humanitarian missions. It was the only carrier to serve the entire length of the Cold War and beyond. It is currently a museum ship in San Diego, California.
Midway opened as a museum on 7 June 2004. By 2012 annual visitation exceeded 1 million visitors. As of 2015 Midway is the most popular naval warship museum in the United States.The museum has over 13,000 members, and hosts more than 700 events a year, including more than 400 active-duty Navy retirements, re-enlistments, and changes of command. The museum also hosts approximately 50,000 students on field trips and 5,000 children in its overnight program annually.
Admission includes a self-guided audio tour, narrated by former Midway sailors to more than 60 locations, including sleeping quarters, engine room, galley, bridge, brig, post office, foc's'le, pilots' ready rooms, officers quarters, primary flight control, and "officers country". Other features include climb-aboard aircraft and cockpits, videos, flight simulators, and a narrated audio tour for youngsters.
In addition to private events, the museum has hosted several events, including a nationally broadcast NCAA basketball game between San Diego State University and Syracuse University in 2012. American Idol has filmed an episode on Midway, as have the Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, FOX News, The Bachelor, Extreme Makeover, History Channel, and Military Channel.
Membership has grown to more than 25,000. A high definition, holographic movie theater, "The Battle of Midway Theater", was added in 2017, and in 2019 the museum is adding a virtual reality flight simulator ride in addition to its existing four flight simulators.
A transfer to Midway Yard heads out of the east end of Northtown back in 1994. BN 1418, 1922, and 163 are the power on the stacks across town to St. Paul. It was just another afternoon my dad and I spent sitting at University watching and shooting whatever went past until dark. Good memories of those days.
Minnesota Commercial's ex-ATSF SF30B, rebuilt from a U23B, works a yard job in Midway as the Belt Job's power heads to the other end to build its train.
Deseret Power Railway's afternoon empty unit coal train approaches the aptly-named Midway siding near milepost 17. In about 30 minutes, the crew will tie up at the Deserado mine loadout near Blue Mountain, CO and the cycle will start all over again...like clockwork this day.
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I have many shots of the geysers and will be posting in the next few days...With some I have used my creative side...others I will upload what I saw...This one is a combination of both...
Do click for a better view...
BNSF Y-NTW150 arrives to switch the Commercial yard with an H1 SD40-2 leading a BN as #75 holds down the yard job.
With a photogenic leader, CP 198 brings their stack train over the hill on the ex-GN, having finished their work at Shoreham Yard. It is easy enough for West Hump to send them down the St. Paul Sub when coming out of Shoreham, but today West Hump was nice enough to send them down the Midway Sub.
USS Midway was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of its class. Commissioned a week after the end of World War II, Midway was the largest ship in the world until 1955, it operated for an unprecedented 47 years, during which time it saw action in the Vietnam War and served as the Persian Gulf flagship in 1991's Operation Desert Storm. Decommissioned in 1992, it is now a museum ship at the USS Midway Museum, in San Diego, California, and the only remaining U.S. aircraft carrier of the World War II era that is not an Essex-class aircraft carrier.
The Midway Geyser Basin was thick with mist when we visited one early morning at Yellowstone. I liked the lines and textures of the bacteria that thrive in this unreal super-heated geyser basin. Lots of lens cleaning that day 😁
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Downtown Minneapolis looms in the background while the remote set of BNSF locomotives move empty well cars at the Midway Terminal. The Twin Cities & Western waits for a signal while BNSF maintenance works a pair of crossover switches ahead.
A westbound Deseret Power Railway coal train approaches the Highway 64 overpass, west of Midway, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.
A long Canadian Pacific freight wraps ups its work up the gade along the BNSF Midway Subdivision. It's a long haul up the grade for the long trains that CP is so known for. News came this morning that CN was pulling out of merger conversations with KCS making CP the likely party to take over the KCS system to become Canadian Pacific Kansas City. That being said, the days of pure CP are numbered.
This was the view crossing the walking bridge over Firehole River. Waters from geysers at the Midway Geyser Basin on the right run down into the Firehole River on the left. The waters are very hot as you can see steam coming off the stream flow from the right. In the background center steam rises off of the Excelsior Geyser Crater. The colors on the rock are due to chemicals coming out of the water as well as possible thermophiles - heat loving microbes. Other water features at Midway are the Opal Pool, Turquoise Pool, and the Grand Prismatic Spring.
Taken 17 September 2014 at Yellowstone National Park.
A trio of E60C locomotives leads a loaded coal train on the Deseret Power Railroad, the last heavy-haul electric freight railroad in the United States, through a remote section of Rio Blanco County, Colorado. June, 15, 2020.
............................................. “Midway”
I don’t know all the bright and shinning paths to heaven,
But I do know that midway along the way we choose
between shadow...and light.
I don’t know if a day shall be marked... "end of days"
But I do know that if it were so, it would fall midway
between counted yesterdays and uncounted tomorrows.
I don’t know if any breath bent to word can truly be true
But I do know the moments most pure are laid midway
between a breath drawn ...and a sigh released.
I don’t know if one should whisper aloud just how passionate the kiss
But I do know that given the chance I would linger midway
between your longest …and your sweetest.
I don’t know how far exactly from "here"... to "there",
But I do know that "midway" is charted somewhere-
between the setting of sails and the lifting of anchors.
...Sigh,
I won't pretend... I don’t know all the bright and shinning paths to heaven.
But I do know that when I follow you -
..."heaven" is found on a wing and a prayer, midway
-between a divided cloud, and a last sacred light of day.
...
.
.
.
Greg Hughey Revised August 29, 2004 / 2nd revision August 1, 2007 "/3rd (smile) February 18th, 2014" ** ©
* dedicated to the "soul mates", deep within us all....
Museum Ship USS Midway (CV-41) permanently berthed at the San Diego Waterfront since 2004. Commissioned just eight days after the end of WWII modified in 1955 and again in 1970, 45,000t in 1945, 64,000t at Decommissing in 1992, she served in the Viertnam conflict (twice) and the Gulf War in 1991. Believed to be the largest Aircraft carrier open to the public anywhere.
A pair of CPKC SD30C-ECOs pull into Minnesota Commercial's Midway Yard with the J15 (CPBN) job on a quiet Sunday morning. This was my first time seeing these unique rebuilds, of which only CPKC and CSX roster.
Another of many reasons I'm grateful.
I don't ever mind a day coming to a close when it's as beautiful as this one was.
Lake Emerald, in Oakland Park, Florida -US- near Fort Lauderdale
Shot from my balcony over the lake, Sunday evening, October 1, 2006.
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Museum Ship USS Midway at San Diego waterfront opened as such in 2004. Originally built in only 17 months and commissioned one week after the end of WWII. Modernised in 1955 & again in 1970 from 45,000 ton displacement in 1945 to 64,000 tons on decommission in 1992. Participated in Vietnam conflict (twice) and the Gulf War 1991 and to date is the largest aircraft carrier open to the public.
Beautiful old railroad town with shops, restaurants and a railroad depot. Located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region.
This upward facing view of the U.S.S. Midway, in service from 1945 to 1992, now docked in Navy Pier in San Diego, brought to mind the "Defying Gravity" theme. It was amazing to see all of the cantilevered, unsupported layers of the ship and the height of 222'. So enjoyed our tour there are grew even more appreciate of the many who served our country on her (including my husband's father who was stationed on the Midway). Stats that they shared were just mind blowing. Here are a few fun facts: 4,500 crewmembers, 13,000 meals a day (500 pies a day, 1,000 loaves of bread a day), 212,000 horsepower, 3.4 million gallons of fuel, 69,000 tons fully loaded.
Three Deseret Power Railroad E50C electrics lead an empty coal train at Midway Siding. June 15, 2020.
Buildings on the North Side of the railroad tracks. Sparkling clean little city in the Bluegrass Region of Central Kentucky.
New Mexico State Fair 2015, Albuquerque
Sony A7II Mirrorless, using Nikon AF-S 20mm f1/8G ED, on Novoflex adapter
After a delay in Rupp Yard the crew of RJ Corman's Z545 has the train underway as it passes the Civil War era buildings in the town of Midway, Kentucky.
on our invisible axis
a thousand miles an hour
in outer darkness
and with even more velocity
in our elliptical orbit, tiny
blue marble in an endless
sea of night, we do not feel
the speed of this life,
of time passing by,
of the girl you were
now grown old,
overnight, it seems,
and what keeps us
from flying off
as the merry-go-round
whirls and the midway
wheel leaves us
momentarily breathless,
if not for my holding
your hand
all these years,
now more tightly
than ever.
M deO
Carnival Midway at the Boone County Fair in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/11.0 with an 8-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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