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I shot this image from the middle of the suspension bridge that crosses over the Yukon River, as it flows through Miles Canyon just outside of Whitehorse.
The surface of the water may look smooth, but there is a strong current and undertow that you will not survive should you be unfortunate enough to lose your step and fall in. Notice the worn paths to the right? A lot of people walk those paths with no barrier between them, and the icy water below. Back in the gold rush days - many a miner lost their lives and everything they owned traversing Miles Canyon. It is beautiful to look at, and just jammed packed full of history, but one must be very careful when visiting.
The fingers of Lake Powell go deep into narrow canyons winding for miles through clear blue water and steep canyons walls.
This Chichester-Miles Leopard is the second prototype of a four seat, twin-engined 'personal jet' in development since 1982. The first prototype G-BKRL flew in 1988 but after the engine manufacturer folded, this second aircraft was built using Williams FJX engines and adding other refinements including pressurisation.
G-BRNM first flew in 1997 and carried out 84 development flights. The aircraft was previously on display at the Bournemouth Aviation Museum, and was donated to the Midland Air Museum by Ian Chichester-Miles.
Another from this ongoing series.
CSXT local L020 has 17 cars trailing two ACSES equipped ex Chessie GP40-2s as they pull up to MP QC1 on Troy Industrial Track after a four mile run down from their namesake city. In the foreground is a signature New York Central era concrete 'tombstone' style milepost marked R1.
They will pause here holding off crossing for a bit before awaiting permission from Amtrak's Hudson North dispatcher to head out onto the Hudson Line and cross the Livingston Avenue Bridge so they can make the climb up West Albany hill enroute back west to their home base in South Schenectady via the Amtrak main and CSXT's Carmen Branch. Refer to my earlier posts for a long form caption with the history of this line.
Rensselaer, New York
Friday October 25, 2024
“But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”
~Robert Frost~
Just got back from a bucket list trip through the South West US. Drove over 3000 miles, visiting places such as San Francisco, LA, Vegas, Grand Canyon, Page, Monument Valley, and Bryce Canyon. I didn't particularly focus on photography during the trip but was still able to take some nice pictures.
The 17 mile drive from the title comes from a, you guessed it..., a 17 mile drive along the coast of Monterey, CA.
the last mile
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Sunrise on the harbour of Portpatrick.
Portpatrick is small harbour with a narrow somewhat tricky entrance. It is set midway along the west coast of Galloway an area beset by strong tidal streams. At one time Portpatrick was used for commercial traffic to Ireland, but was abandoned for this purpose in 1870. The Rhins of Galloway is the 26 mile long peninsular, with Portpatrick located about midway.
Rhins of Galloway Scotland
First nights camping near Porec, Croatia. We were rewarded with this sunset, took this without moving from our pitch.........what a pitch!!!!!
Tri., M.IMGP4498
The waters of Turnagain Arm and the railroad are side by side for a number of miles south of Anchorage. As such it makes for compelling shots just about anywhere along the Seward Hwy. See here is the export coal train at MP 95 just south of Beluga 8.26.10
Analogue / Film: Rolleiflex SL 35 + Carl Zeiss 35mm Flektogon f/2.4 + M42 Adapter + Fomapan 100 (pushed 2 stop)
Chichester peregrines caught in the act.
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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Michigan Shore train Z627 is rolling off the last two miles of their southbound Journey to interchange with CSX at Holland MI. CSX's Holland yard is only about a half mile in front of them but the crew will have to roll past it and shove in from the east end as the Fremont sub connects to the main in the middle of the yard. The train consists of mostly loaded Chara ash cars that are bound for the ash dump in Essexville MI. This business is roughly 10 cars a day, 5 days a week for about the next 2 years as an environmental clean up takes place at the former B.C. Cobb plant in Muskegon MI. The call colors are just starting to peak in this area but are still a couple weeks away at this point.
Sporting its Orange GMPTE Livery, virtually new 142004 departs Miles Platting station in the Manchester North Eastern suburbs. In the distance L&Y Brewery Sidings Box guarding part the Philips Park triangle with a 56 hauled MGR held in the loop, ready to follow 1420004.
* Miles Platting Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway station in the North East suburbs of Manchester and by 1986 was a shadow of its former self. Created at the Junction where the L&Y and LNWR routes converged after crossing the Pennines on their respective routes.
This area was born out of the industrial revolution with a vast amount of manufacturing and engineering establishments and the working population grew disproportionally to the housing available therefore creating mass overcrowding in a slum area.
Miles Platting became unstaffed and suffered from vandalism closing on May 27th 1995 and was quickly demolished leaving no trace.
* For the final day of 'Pacer' operation, November 27th 2020, Northern rostered just 142004 to work one of the Manchester - Kirkby diagrams.
Passengers alight from 150112 on the 07.00 Manchester Victoria - Kirkby as 142004 arrives with the 07.36 Kirkby - Manchester Victoria.
* Considered to be only a stopgap solution and based on the Leyland National bus body some of these units managed a creditable 35 years in service. Fittingly Newton Heath turned out ex GMPTE 142004 on the last day.
** For the record 96 were built, 15 were available for service on the last day (stand corrected on that) 36 have been scrapped and 20 have made it into preservation.
Hey gang. Hope you had a great Christmas day. Boxing day marks the start of a great migration here in Australia. Thousands of majestic station wagons make the long journey from urban centres to rural ones with occasional stops for a KFC and a wee. On arrival at the teeming holiday-grounds, their first port of call is usually the small local IGA shop where they will comment on how expensive the bread is. Having put up a tent or pitched a caravan or booked into a hotel, the older members of the party will then usually crack open a bottle of something alcoholic and the younger ones will complain about how poor the 4G internet is. Traditionally there will be a small (but heated) row and then everyone will go for a walk on the beach, which has healing and restorative effects. Over the course of the holiday, the mood will slowly become increasingly relaxed and remain so until the return leg, which is fraught with its own unique dangers, such as a malfunctioning air conditioning unit in the car and 10km traffic jams. Personally I will not be migrating anywhere during the summer holidays, but will be enjoying sunrises like this one a couple of mornings ago, on Seven Mile Beach. If you're heading this way, look for a fat bloke in Crocs with a camera and smelling heavily of Aerogard and you've probably found me :)
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