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“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
Thinking of Spring, but it's still a long way from home ;-)
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Now go listen to the fantastic Rolling Stones track of the same name........brilliant saxophone :-)
Sheltering from the pouring rain - on the East Lancashire Railway, Ramsbottom, UK.
Grosbeak about to land on the feeder - HFF!
this year we were treated to these migrating visitors for a full 2 weeks, as opposed to the usual 1 week - what joy!
Now at Mainstore! (link in my SL profile: Shakeup Resident) :D
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A couple of Gators in ATSF livery looks seriously out of place working the LS&I dock. This weeks SNS features 2400 and 2405 on May 2, 1975 at Marquette. By the time I was able to shoot 35mm stuff at Marquette only an out of service 2401 was still in Santa Fe colors. No photographer to credit, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
Hero - Pharos
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Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?
Would you run, and never look back?
Would you cry, if you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul, tonight?
Would you tremble, if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh? Oh please tell me this
Now would you die, for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms, tonight
I can be your hero, baby
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away...
Oh, I just wanna hold you
I just wanna hold you, oh yeah
Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind?
Well I don't care you're here, tonight...
A Dedication.
Blog Post
"Had to get the train
From Potsdamer Platz
You never knew that
That I could do that
Just walking the dead
Sitting in the Dschungel
On Nürnberger Strasse
A man lost in time
Near KaDeWe
Just walking the dead
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
20, 000 people
Cross Bösebrücke
Fingers are crossed
Just in case
Walking the dead
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you"...
David Bowie / Where Are We Now?...
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A quickly disappearing IC SD70 in the well known "Deathstar" paint, leads train M335 north through Hayes, IL while a storm moves overhead.
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.
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Now that the melt is well underway, the shorebirds and waders are returning.
Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County, Alberta.
Tropical Summer is over and it was a blast! If you didn't have the chance to get our Camila Set, it is now available in-world at Avie maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AMERICAN%20BAZAAR/44/124/25
Until now, I had only seen the exoskeletons of Cicadas on some tree trunks. At the end of 2024, I discovered a Greengrocer Cicada (Cyclochila australasiae) and, more recently, this Floury Baker Cicada (Aleeta curvicosta), seen here on a Gaillardia bloom. Now, some of the Summer sounds around me have a name and an image :) /
Jusqu'a present, je ne connaissais des Cigales que les mues que je trouvais accrochees a certains troncs d'arbres. Fin 2024, j'ai decouvert celle que l'on appelle "Greengrocer" en Australie et, dernierement, cette petite nouvelle appelee "Floury Baker" Comme il en existe plus de 700 especes en Australie, il me reste du chemin a faire avant de les connaitre toutes :)
NS 233 heads west through Hammond Indiana on the NS Chicago District with the New York Central heritage unit in the lead.
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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