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Somewhere in Gwangju, South Korea. A quiet city with pockets of fun. This is taken while finding one of the pockets.
WITH A BREAK TO TOP OFF WITH FUEL AND SETOUT THE TRAILING UNIT TO LOAD GRAIN IN THE COMING DAYS, WE SEIZE THE MOMENT TO GET WHILE THE GETTING WAS GOOD. AND TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO CHAT IT UP WITH YOUR TYPICAL FRIENDLY SHORTLINE CREW.
Driving up road 123 in Mt. Rainier affords some pretty grand views....even if they don't actually include the namesake peak.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm.
After a quick stop at Universal to refuel, 205 departs to a spot a couple miles west to get its Tier recrew to roll west. Guess the HUs bring everyone out, as fellow railfan Larry Moss is off to the left after getting his photos.
A flask of coffee and a Tunnock's Caramel biscuit - essential ingredients for a pitstop at the Otmoor bird hide :)). (Plus bins and a camera of course.)
Directly between Mansfield and Blue Ridge is a small overpass across the tracks, about milepost 129. Faintly visible in the distance are the remaining but unused grain elevators of Blue Ridge, and up close is an intermediate Safetran signal. If my research is correct, somewhere in this trench between C128 and C129 there would have been a pair of searchlights. I have never found any photos of any of the intermediates here, though I suspect this set would have included a single head on the southbound signal and a pair of heads for the northbound. Though the Monticello and Bement intermediates combine this into one mast today, track charts indicate these would have been a split pair, one mast per side of the tracks. Between 2000 and 2004, all the intermediate signals on the Bloomington District were either replaced or relocated and combined based on my research.
Anyway, outside of signals, front and center is the leader of our D36. NS3362 is in charge today, a former Conrail SD40-2 that retains its Leslie RS3L. It's a good sounding horn on a good sounding engine. 3362 was built as the CR 6416 in September 1977 and received a new number upon its acquisition by NS. The third motor in the lashup, 5823, is a GP38-3 that was rebuilt from the NS/SOU 7049, a GP50, around 2007.
Second out is NS6406, which has a bit more history to it. It was built 11/1978 for the Kennecott Copper Corporation as the 105. KCC105 was sold to BC Rail and numbered 740, then sold to HLCX as the 6208, finally to NS as the 3521. It served on the Bloomington District for a short while before going to Altoona to become an SD40-3, admiral cab and all included. It was promptly sent straight back here in 2022 and continues to work the Decatur area NS lines now.
Despite varying heritage, all three units share one thing though: EMD 645s. From about Goembel until the signals at C128.9, D36 was under a speed restriction that kept them at about 20mph and quiet. As soon as they hit the signals, however, all three 645s flared to life. The trench this stretch of track is in creates a sort of bowl for the noise to collect and bounce out of, making it just an incredible place to stand and listen. Times like these make me wish I did video sometimes, as there just isn't anything comparable to some 645s under load. A wonderful sight and sound to say the very least. The best part is that I hadn't even planned to shoot here, but I just knew I had to when I drove past!
Olympus OM-2
Zuiko 28mm f2.8
Fujichrome Provia 100F color reversal film cross-processed
Epson Perfection V800
Silverfast AI Studio
On the third day of our holiday in Torquay we took a trip over to Cornwall! This is our first pitstop at The Lost Gardens of Heligan - we shared a very yummy Cornish pastie - Mr T's has brown sauce and mine has tomato sauce :)).
"Twenty-five years ago, Heligan’s historic gardens were unknown and unseen; lost under a tangle of weeds. It was only the chance discovery of a door in the ruins that led to the restoration of this once great estate. Today, the Lost Gardens have been put back where they belong: in pride of place among the finest gardens in Cornwall." heligan.com/
Mechanics from the Norton 360 Racing team practice a pitstop during V8 Supercars "Austin 400" weekend at Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas on May 17th, 2013.
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