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Location: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020.06.25
The Story: Reading & Northern train NRFF winds its way around the railroads new bridge on a near perfect day. Some mistakes were certainly made with this photo effort, not enough bridge and too much sky. The good thing is this shot isn't going anywhere (until the trees grow up). Sometime soon, I'll be off to try it again.
NS 1067 (Reading) leads UP MG3AH passed Glen Ellyn depot in Glen Ellyn, IL, with workers on the roof of the building.
Reading Buses have recently taken over running the Green Line 702 service from First Group. The service runs from Bracknell to London Victoria with some early morning and late evening services extending to Reading.
The route has seen a variety of different vehicle types used on the service including rebranded Alexander Dennis Enviro400 1208 GO11LDN from the Reading Buses fleet, seen near Heatherwood Hospital in February 2018. This bus was re-registered from SN11BRX in 2017.
Reading and listening to The Rolling Stones in a Rolling Stones shirt.
Model: Kayja www.instagram.com/kayja_n_t/
Reading is probably the single thing that changed my life the most. Think about it: how much of what you are is influenced by something you read? When I saw this man quietly walking in the shallow waters near the shore while reading a book, I knew I wanted a picture of him. I hesitated because I don't like taking photos of strangers, but in the end the moment was too good to pass on, so I composed to balance his figure and the trail behind him with the clouds and waves on the right.
Michelle is very emotional reading a heart breaking book so Loretta was feeling pity and offered to bring her some chicken soup for the soul...and she assured Michelle it's homemade soup.
761 (YY15OYC) seen at Reading Station on a bright Saturday morning as it prepares to head to London Victoria on the Greenline 702.
Three journeys a day leave Reading on the Greenline 702 with services going direct to Slough on the M4 or via Bracknell & Ascot before rejoining the route at Legoland Windsor.
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020.01.11
The closing act? The vaunted F units have found life after being discarded by Norfolk Southern, hope the next act last many years.
With yet another dull weather weekend upon us, I kept it local today (14/03/2020) and went out to photograph Reading Buses new 'little berries' branded Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC B36F 679 YY69TNF. The new addition is for the 27/29 routes which take the bus from Reading town centre out to Caverham (Nire Road) via Caversham Bridge (27) or Reading Bridge (29).
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
I haven't read a book lately, I am so tied with the manuals of my new stuffs.
Plus textbooks that I have been studying.
What is the last book you read? Did you like it?
Reading in public places is always a good image to me. This time it just gets better.
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I recently had been going through my archives looking for some other photos when I stumbled upon some previously unedited images that I had set aside to edit. So I did a few quick edits and will hopefully be presenting these images over the next several days. This is another of those photos.
On one of my few trips to the BNSF Chillicothe Sub in the final months of the famous Santa Fe-era signal bridges and cantilevers with searchlights, we happened to be exploring the line between Mazon & Ancona. We were on the way back from Ancona when we noticed an oncoming train in the east. We cut a beeline to the nearest crossing, which just happened to be a small cluster of houses south of Streator. The train turned out to be (if I remember correctly) NSIGAL, the train that comes off the Norfolk Southern Kankakee Sub on the south side of Streator. We had seen this train holding for orders or new crew earlier when we had been exploring around Streator.
Anyway, after the train passed, we noticed an odd little gravel drive that went through a cluster of trees next to the tracks. What we could not see from the road we would soon discover. Inside the trees we discovered this abandoned building. At first glance, we thought it was an abandoned farm building of some sort, you could see old hay through the collapsing walls.
But the more I looked at it, the more I thought it might be an old long-forgotten depot. This building's proximity to the railroad tracks seemed too suspicious to me, and the windows and door seen in the image did not seem like they belonged were original features, while the dual sliding doors also seen in this image clearly were not (and may have done more to compromise the stability of this building than anything else). The only way for us to know for sure was to find the tell-tale feature of almost every railroad depot, the bay window that the station agents used for seeing oncoming trains.
I should add, it had been raining all day this day, a very hard and steady rain that will soak you to the bone in minutes, and only with proper rain gear is it tolerable. Also, the grass here was knee-high and covered in poison ivy. Even though it meant soaked pants, socks, & shoes, and potentially getting poison ivy, we walked around to the trackside of the building. And just as I had predicted, there it was, the bay window! Granted, it was worse for wear, but still plain as day. So not only was this building a depot, we soon discovered that it was not listed in my friends listings of known depots!
With no idea of this place, a peek inside revealed this depot's life after retirement. Sometime after it was disused as a depot, it was converted to farm use of some sort. Either a second floor was added or the existing ceiling was lowered, with the new upper story used to store hay. This second floor had largely collapsed over time, but old rotten hay could still be seen matted to the floor like a pile of wet sheep's wool. The double doors were likely added about the same time and no doubt housed some sort of farm machinery.
Almost convinced we stumbled upon a mystery nearly lost to time, we called it quits and finally headed for home. Later that night, some research and Google Maps revealed what we had found. It turns out we were in the tiny blip of a town named Reading that sits between Streator and Ancona, and this was indeed the old Santa Fe Reading depot. It had never been moved and was indeed in its as-built location. My friend never did find it in is depot resources, and we could only speculate that its use as a farm building may have masked its life when that list of depots was compiled (I want to say his version dated from 2006 or so). About a year later, however, when we learned of DepotMaps.com, we were able to confirm our reasearch.
Sorry, I know this is long, so I'll sum up this way. We found this in October 2017. I have no idea if this thing still survives today, much less whether it's standing. But as of this writing, a look on Google satellite view shows what might be building walls or the outline of a foundation. It's just too hard to tell. And with no street views out in rural Reading, the only way to know is to drive by it.
Reading Buses ALX400 Dennis Trident WA04CPZ 536 is seen passing Reading Station on a service for Fleet, 28th April
Reading Buses have recently taken over running the Green Line 702 service from First Group. The service runs from Bracknell to London Victoria with some early morning and late evening services extending to Reading.
The route has seen a variety of different vehicle types used on the service including Scania demonstrator YN16CFU, a Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC temporarily numbered 778 in the Reading fleet, seen near Heatherwood Hospital in February 2018.
"in her garden
a summer day
one afternoon,
reading a book
of dreams..
he sat beside her
curled and purred..
and then fell asleep."
that's our cat, i was just reading there and then he came over where i was and wanted some attention, he's usually moody, ^^) so i was pretty surprised.
bored one weekend. in our backyard.
model: me and our cat dencie
I was so inspired by my mom's idea of seeing a picture in Explore and then hopping in the car to go see the sight for herself - in her case it was to see poppies growing on the hills in Southern California www.flickr.com/photos/75885098@N05/32440176737/in/datepos... - that I wanted to do something similar myself.
I didn't find anything that fit the bill so my mom then suggested I go to Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, a place we both loved when she came to visit. So, George and I hopped in the car and drove there on a day, alas, when the Dutch Eating Place was closed. It's an Amish diner that serves turkey dinners. Their mashed potatoes and gravy are worth an hour drive just on their own. The rest of the market is the icing on the cake. Or the gravy on the potatoes. :-)
Reading Bridge
Opened for traffic 3rd October 1923
A key crossing point across the River Thames between Caversham and Reading.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Bridge
Winter Wonderland
Located at Hills Meadow Car Park in Caversham, which is next to Reading Bridge.