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Small Pinon Pine toughing it out on the edge of a cliff in Mesa Verde National Park - Sleeping Ute Mountain in the background.
One Direction meet fans & sign their book One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X-Factor Story @ hmv Manchester 07/03/2011
“We’re Here!” is visiting One Night Stand today.
Everyone else has very interesting bedside tables with books and lamps and electronic gizmos and all manner of photogenic objects. I was embarrassed by my battered and incredibly dull offering. I don’t read in bed, and I have a shelf along the wall where my devices charge and my clock sits. I thought about dressing this up a bit with a vase or something, but I would never actually keep anything like that here for fear of knocking it over in the night. so, finally I decided to just show it like it is. This is my one night stand.
One's dream
The macro lens change simple scene to a poetic dream...
Her long eyelashes and slide hair made it : D
Trial of Nikon DSLR and Macro lens (borrowed from friend)
Model : my niece.
Bangkok, Thailand
One fine evening it came to our house n left the next morning. I wonder if it really had such a swollen body or it was temporary!
Sometimes it's fun to scroll through your archives and remind yourself that you've seen and experienced some amazing things.
This shot was taken a few years ago at Mono Lake. I still have to pinch myself that I was lucky enough to go there.
Aston Martin One-77 in from of the 'Costes' where some Aston owners often goes. And today, I was very surprised to see this One-77 !
A Manhattan-bound R train led by R160A no. 9352 (Alstom, 2005-2010) is seen at 65th St Station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. The first five cars of this train are wrapped with an advertisement for Zoho One, a business operating system.
Enjoy with The Chiffons.
So the fact that you can see some bluish gray is a good sign... the pollution on most days is pretty bad. When they say, "Sunny", you have to be careful that it will also be "hazy" from all the coal-fired plants.
This photo is of the Pudong New Area district of Shanghai, China that enjoys sub-provincial administrative status. It is named Pudong because of its location on the east side of the Huangpu river, on the opposite of Puxi, the west side.
If you haven't been to China yet, please enjoy my set.
So, this is my version, look at my partners version www.flickr.com/photos/sweron/9519446235/
No, we're not competing at all *best innocent look* :-D
The work continues on Battersea Power Station, one day it will be finished, as a 375 passes Wandsworth Rd.
I purchased this book not long after the horrible events of 9/11 and although it is a great read it most certainly is a difficult read. Each year on the anniversary I pick up One Nation and begin to read, again!
We will never forget and America will always remember!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Honor ...
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Pan Am Railways Train WA-R smokes it up as they pass through the "Dirty Lew" on 1/16/2022.
At the time Pan Am was in the process of cleaning up several derailments around the network. In December of 2021 Sappi-3 stacked up about 15 cars on the Hinkley Branch, two of which the 175 ton road cranes couldn't rerail. The "repaired" section through the derailment site ultimately resulted in 4 more derailments over the following months. While it seemed like Pan Am had the intention of leaving those two loaded paper cars for CSX to clean up, not wanting to bring out the two wreck trains, a derailment in Saco caused by the crew of PO-3 running a derail for the second time in a week, resulted in several LPG cars flipping over.
Since those weighed too much for one of the road cranes to rerail, they brought out both the Waterville wreck set with the 200 ton Brownhoist crane and support cars and the East Deerfield wreck set with a 250 ton Brownhoist and two Cat 583H pipelayers.
In the end, the flatcar the exB&M pipelayer rode on and its support car got kicked out at North Chelmsford, after one of the friction bearing trucks overheated. As a result, the wreck crews had to use just the cranes to rerail the cars, normally only doing one per day.
Since the train was already in Maine, the decision was made to send it to the Hinkley Branch to recover the two paper cars.
So on the morning of 1/16/2022 the train was supposed to depart Rigby before sunrise, to get into position at the derailment site in Hinkley.
Well, per the usual train WAPO lost enough of its units, that it died in Portland blocking the busy Forest Ave. With no available power or crews, the train had to block the single track main until a maintainer got enough of the units going to get the train to Rigby. By that point the original crew had timed out and it was some time before a yard crew could be freed up to come and drag the train into Rigby.
Several Downeasters piled up waiting for the traffic jam to clear as well. This resulted in the wreck train finally getting out after lunch.
Things wouldn't be smooth sailing, in Cumberland Center the leader MEC B40-8 5973 sprung a coolant leak and ran out of water, before shutting down. Not long after taking the Backroad at Royal Jct the train had to stop due to sticking brakes. There were several more stops at New Glouster and Danville Jct before the issue was finally resolved. By the time they were rolling across the L/A bridge light was quickly fading.
Due to traffic I got behind them at Leeds Jct and didn't pick them up again until Readfield (despite the 20 MPH restriction for plain bearing cars I think they were going faster). By that point all the light was shot.
The train would rerail the two cars over the following days before the Waterville set was left at Waterville, while the ED set languished at Yard 8 in Portland for a few months before returning to East Deerfield prior to the takeover.
Since then the equipment has been scattered. The 470 Club got the Waterville baggage car and idler flat, the rigging car, the MEC dozer rigging car, B&M wheel car and the exMEC flatcar. The Railroad Museum of New England got the exB&M troop sleeper and the exB&M caboose that was welded to a flatcar. The Batten Kill and the SC&H got the other flat car, the ED baggage car, the exB&M flatcar and the 250 ton crane and idler, however I think they have since passed up the the latter two. I believe the Waterville dining car is still up for grabs, while the 200 ton crane despite being donated to the 470 Club, was sold to a buyer out of PA. The two Cat 583H's were sold to a company in the MA area which does work for CSX and a few other railroads.
The loss of the Pan Am wreck train was truly the end of an era for railroading in North America. The retirement of the train under CSX marked the end of the wreck train, something which had been used by railroads to clean up wrecks for over 100 years. It is worth noting a few railroads still retain a few cranes, however to my knowledge, none still employ a dedicated train and I haven't heard of any cranes being used in the modern era.
Pan Am Railway
Train: WA-R
1/16/2022
Lewiston, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line