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Time for a photo dump! Let's turn back the clock to 15 years ago from the day I'm posting this, to July 1, 2007, to turn the clock back 50 years previously. On July 1st, 2007, the Fox River Trolley Museum would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of service on the Chicago, Aurora, & Elgin interuban line. The story of the end of the CA&E is a long one, which I will not recount here. I will simply sum up by saying that the CA&E ended service just after Noon on a busy July 3, 1957, trapping passengers trying to return home for the busy Fourth of July holiday.
On July 1, 2007, the Fox River Trolley Museum held their event to commemorate the end of CA&E Service. They wanted to make it as authentic as possible, but little did they know just how authentic it would turn out to be. FRTM owns CA&E Car 20, the oldest operating interurban car in the country, which has the distinction of being the only surviving CA&E car that operated on the first and last days of service on the CA&E. So it was only natural that it operated for this occasion. To replicate what happened on that day 50 years previous, CA&E 20 was to take passengers out to the end of the line, drop everyone off, and return to the museum campus. A diesel train would then be dispatched to pick everyone up, simulating how the Chicago & Northwestern eventually rescued to the stranded CA&E passengers. Warren and Saline River Railroad #73, a Whitcomb 70-tonner conviently painted in CNW colors, would operate then be dispatched to pick everyone up and return the to the museum's station.
The first part of this went according to plan. We were all dropped off at the end of the line, where we would wait. And wait. And wait. The diesel train no-showed, and after maybe 30 minutes or more, if memory serves, a museum volunteer drove out and told everyone what had happened. A sagging electric trolley wire got caught on the locomotive, which tore the cap of the exhaust stack off. So no trains could move until that was cleared up. Stranded could either wait it out, or walk the 1+ mile river trail that parallels the museum's line back to the station. I chose to walk, as it was a nice day and the river trail is very scenic. On my walk back, they Whitcomb got unstuck and picked up the other stranded passengers. I believe they were also able to eventually rectify the downed wire, and electric service was able to resume about an hour later. Unwittingly, the Museum had made the experience of the end of CA&E service much more authentic then they had ever intended or planned.
CA&E #20 is about ready to board passengers at the museum's Castlemuir station to re-enact the end of passenger service for the third time.
Now, this was a journey that I will not forget. You have to travel past the famous waterfalls of Etive Mor for several miles along a one way track. Beautiful road but can be a bit tricky!
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NS 233 heads west through Hammond Indiana on the NS Chicago District with the New York Central heritage unit in the lead.
As you know by now, I love when artists use music to tell a story, weaving the music and the lyrics into a tale filled with emotion and colours. Don McLean is one of those Artists who masterfully achieve this. Vincent is an Ode to the dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890). He struggled with mental illness all through his life and died at his own hands at the age of just 37. During his life, he barely sold any of his paintings. Which makes the fact that these days they are worth millions kind of a cruel joke. Don McLean weaved numerous paintings of VanGogh into his Lyrics, which is another nice touch
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy, linen land
Now, I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Not quite so snatched shot of an HST from Cranes Lock this week while having an evening walk
The bush to my right is the one obscuring a power car in the previous upload
A murky scene in the open cast coal mine at Sandaoling as a loaded train slogs its way out of the pit, while in the middle background, another loco is about to push back to the loader, upper right of the picture.
Reports suggest that this has all finished (in April this year) and the diminishing reserves of coal are being taken from the pit by conveyors and trucks.
The world’s last great steam spectacle has finally ended.
Sandaoling. Xinjiang, China. January 2014. © David Hill.
This 19th century Moor is of two worlds - in one, he stands resolutely upon my grandmother's shelf, and in another, he is an earnest traveler, forever ready to board the next train, take the next flight, ride the next camel or walk the next path.
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Sitting in the living room, I heard a 'crash' then Kaiser came thundering into the living room as if the devil were on his tail. When I investigated I found the box in the middle of the room on its side. Not long before Kaiser had been sitting in it so, If I were to hazard a guess, I think that when he jumped out his huge backside got stuck and the box came with him. A few moments later, Pixie turned up and claimed it as hers whilst Kaiser gave me a 'see if I care' look, The box was meant for recycling but I think I will leave it where it is and see what happens next
I was inspired by the brilliant shots of the South Cluanie Ridge by Iolair-Bhara to delve into the archives for this reminder of one of my most memorable days in the mountains. This is the famed Forcan Ridge of 'The Saddle' which is at the western end of the South Cluanie Ridge.
The snow, ice and weather could not have been better for a day out on this classic route. I took this picture as we reached an awkward drop in the ridge, and my mates were trying to figure out how to get down (we did).
It's a low resolution shot as it was taken on a Powershot camera back in 2005 - but it still lives long in the memory.
Century Plant (Agave americana)
For my 100 Flowers Project - 2025
You may remember I posted a couple of images of this Century Plant in bud back in December. I noticed this morning that some of the clusters have flowered. So of course I had to include it in my 100 Project - it will be a long time before it flowers again.
Now protected as a site of natural beauty, these trees are an alluring sight along the coast road to Santa Pola.
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Don′t wanna wait 'til tomorrow
Why put it off another day?
One by one, little problems
Build up, and stand in our way, oh!
One step ahead, one step behind it
Now you gotta run to get even
Make future plans I′ll dream about yesterday, hey!
Come on turn, turn this thing around
(Right now)
Hey! It's your tomorrow
(Right now)
Come on, it's everything
(Right now)
Catch your magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
Miss a beat, you lose the rhythm
And nothin′ falls into place, aah
Only missed by a fraction
Slipped a little off your pace, oh!
The more things you get, the more you want
Just trade in one for another
Workin′ so hard to make it easy
Whoa, got to turn, come on, turn this thing around
(Right now)
Hey! It's your tomorrow
(Right now)
Come on, it′s everything
(Right now)
Catch that magic moment
Do it right here and now
It means everything
It's enlightened me
Right now
What are you waitin′ for?
Ohh, yeah
Right now
(Right now)
Hey! It's your tomorrow
(Right now)
Come on, it′s everything
(Right now)
Catch that magic moment
And do it right
(Right now)
Ohh, right now
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Right here and now
Right now, it′s right now
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Tell me, what are you waitin′ for?
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