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P086 rounds the curve at L'Enfant Plaza in Washington DC, led by the second incarnation of Amtrak's Phase II heritage unit.
Bk after four years.
'Le fait est que tu sais ce que je cherche
Collo spalle mento
Font de moi le love-héros
D'une histoire d'O'
Il petto mi sorride perverso
Salut, ma blonde, et sans rancune,
Un pour toi,
Un pour moi
Uno a tutti e due'
Taken on my walk home yesterday. Today it’s snowing, but now that I’m home after shopping, I’ll be staying in for the rest of the day.
Just another wider take on this picture perfect scene.
After grabbing the Valley Railroad steam shot I headed down here to check another box. I'd been wanting to get a nice sunny well lit shot of Amtrak ACS64 662 in it's special 'Phase III' wrap sponsored by the Train Sim World 2 game. Thanks to a tip from a friend I knew it was leading Washington bound regional train 135. Here they are right on time wheeling west around the curve on Main 1 into BROOK interlocking at MP 103.6 on Amtrak's New Haven Line main.
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Saturday February 26, 2022
In the mid-90s, the professional wrestling stable known as the New World Order was the hottest thing in pop culture at the time. The nWo, as it was known, had a saying, "When you're nWo, you're nWo 4-LIFE!" 25 years later, Amtrak has apparently taken a page out of the nWo's playbook. When Amtrak's heritage unit 184, painted in the "Phase IV" livery in 2011 in celebration of the railroad's 40th anniversary, was painted back to standard "Phase V" in early 2023, everyone thought "Phase IV" was officially done. Then, unexpectedly and from seemingly out of nowhere, in early May 2023, Amtrak released 164 as the new Phase IV heritage unit (albeit missing the 40th Anniversary niceties.) The first anyone seemingly ever knew of this unit was when it suddenly showed up in Chicago Union Station. Two days later it was leading it's maiden voyage on Train #5, the westbound California Zephyr. Here it can be seen passing through Somonauk, IL, on the return portion of this maiden voyage on the point of the Zephyr's eastbound counterpart, Train #6. In tow behind trailing locomotive 54 is a special treat, two brand new Siemens ALC-42 Chargers, 330 & 331, in Amtrak's newest "Phase 7" livery. So it would seem that, like the New World Order, when Amtrak is Phase IV, it is Phase IV-LIFE!.
....I just got into our woods and the rain & wind showed up. I didn't care for the color version of this image. So black & white it is.
* Canon EOS M50 camera
* Vivitar Wide-Angle 35mm f/2.8 (Tokina) lens
* Fotga OM-EOSM lens adapter
deep CSO tunnel in hard rock, built circa 1979 for pollution control in response to the Clean Water Act of 1972
for proper scale - look before the light cone from the subject's headlamp begins, at the dim edge above him, about where there's a dark line on the flat tunnel crown
there was a time when roofs were covered with reed
Heiligenbrunn-Suedburgenland-Austria
flickrfriday#phases
#6, the eastbound California Zephyr, splits a pair of DRGW-era intermediates near Cisco, Utah behind a P42DC in Phase 7 livery leading.
For a short time, Amtrak’s California Zephyr saw 161 on rotation. This was Amtrak’s Phase I heritage unit and replaced the previous Phase I, 156, after it hit a truck and got severely damaged. Just like 156, 161 also has been retired as a few weeks ago it caught fire in Washington D.C. and was burnt to a crisp.
The eastbound Empire Builder has a matched trio of ALC-42 locomotives in the latest fresh look as it rolls into the Minnesota Commercial off the BNSF Midway Subdivision. I think this is a pretty good-looking passenger train.
'It was way past midnight
And she still couldn't fall asleep
This night the dream was leavin'
She tried so hard to keep
And with the new day's dawning
She felt it driftin' away
Not only for a cruise
Not only for a day'
143/365
Photography is just an excuse to buy roses and biscuits.
I have no idea whether this is actually accurate as a chart of the phases of the moon, because I get so, so confused by directions and things, and I do not know if that is because of my dyslexia or what, but it took so long just trying to compare which cut out bit was on what side. And this was precision Oreo slicing (how is it that when you are not trying to preserve the neatness of it, they turn out perfect, but when you are trying to keep an entire disc of cream, it is impossible?)
Also, not my original idea - I think I first saw it when thinking about science activities for my lesson plan assignment.
It's a phase I'm going through.
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Per the previous shot then created two flipped versions and merged them.
Today Amtrak unveiled a new phase III wrap on ACS-64 #662 sponsored by the Train Simulator video game. It's maiden voyage was on train 176 this afternoon and I happened to be in New Haven so I figured I'd grab a shot. Here we see the train doing station work before the last leg of the trip to Boston. As of now the engine should be leading 93 in the morning so happy hunting for those interested.
Shot with a Phase One XF IQ4 150MP using a Schneider Kreuznach BR 35mm lens. I utilized the Automated Frame Averaging feature to expose for 4 minutes to smoothen the water and blur the rolling clouds.
Ice and snow slowly transition to liquid water in a small, shallow tarn high above the Innvikfjorden and the town of Loen, Norway.
The climb up a different fjord on the previous day was significant enough that some in our party balked at repeating the effort so soon on its heels, so on this day we elected to plonk down our kroners and enjoy an effortless ride to the top of the Innvikfjorden via the Loen Skylift. The Skylift is a large gondola supported by only two towers, one at the beginning and one at the end. On the ride up, the angle of the lines is such that one is essentially hauled straight up a good portion of the cliff, providing quite a sensation of the heights. The top of the Skylift has a restaurant with an extraordinary view, and a ledge frequented by people wearing squirrel wingsuits to launch into the void, for what must be the mother of all adrenaline rushes. We witnessed several people preparing to make the leap, and I cannot say I was inspired to attempt such foolishness myself.
Seeking adventures on a somewhat less exciting scale, I had it in mind to walk up one of the peaks that is several kilometers from the top of the Skylift. Not long after setting off, we encountered more or less continuous snow cover, and it was clear that the route to the peak I wanted to ascend was steep and snowy enough that it would be dangerous without axe and crampons. Lacking such helpful instruments, I noticed a rock band that looked possible to climb up and around the steepest of the snow, but my wife put her foot down firmly and informed me she was not at all interested in such things, but that I was welcome to head up myself if I wanted. My two boys also demurred. Feeling that common sense might be percolating through the rest of my family, I gave up the idea and we set our sights on a somewhat closer, and reasonably safer overlook in a different direction. Along the way I discovered this small tarn, and I was captivated by the abrupt phase transition from solid to liquid that divides the frame.
فإذا برق البصرُ * وخَسفَ القمرُ * وجُمِع الشمسُ والقمرُ
يقول الإِنسانُ يومئذٍ أينَ المفرُّ* كلا لا وَزَرَ * إلى ربك يومئذٍ المستَقَرُّ
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