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What a strange consist. RTA F40 with HEP and cars that don't have any requirement for HEP that I know of.
RI GP40 382 on train #194 in Reinbeck, IA, on 5-14-1979 after picking up the tank car from the fertilizer plant on the west end of town.
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The local has completed his work at Bureau Jct. and is getting a highball from the conductor to head east.
Sunset over the Gokyo Lakes from the summit of Gokyo Ri, in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park, with Thamserku rising in the background. Snowfalls in the Cho La and other passes are visible in the distance.
I visited Newport, RI recently... my sister has been tracing our family tree; and found we are descended from Thomas Cornell and Rebecca Briggs (ancestors, also, of Ezra Cornell, who founded Cornell University.) from near Newport, RI. Rebecca was murdered by her son, Thomas Jr.... a book was written a few years ago about the case:
www.amazon.com/Killed-Strangely-Death-Rebecca-Cornell/dp/... Just read it..... fascinating !!!
Would like this shot even more if it were not for all the American flags. Just feel it is entirely gratuitous.
Went to Stepping stone in RI. From a photographic perspective, it is a nice location with potential for good photographs when there is good amount of water.
I had to cut short today's trip because of rain. The weatherman fooled me once again by predicting cloudy and actually raining. Driving 90 miles and running into rain isn't very encouraging. :)
Lastly, this is my first upload with my new 24 TS-E II. Wonderful piece of glass. I am trying to learn tilt function.
Work behind above shot:
- 24mm TS-E II with 5D2.
- Used CPL for controlling reflections.
- 3 stop ND filter for slowing the shutter speed. This one is 45 sec exposure.
- used 2 stop Gnd.
- 3 shot pano with -10, 0, 10 degree shift.
- about 3 degree tilt towards ground.
I think the whirls are a little too distracting. However because of the rain, I did not had patience and time to try. I will return to this location though.
Let me know what you think.
It took me awhile on this photo to figure out why the second GP40 had like angled stripes on it. It was the Milwaukee Rd telegraph poles along the river in St Paul Mn. 1/20/80 R.W.B photo.
Ard Ri is a variant of the game Hnefatafl, or simply Tafl, which is one of the oldest games in the world - traced in various versions to the Vikings, Welsh, Saxons, and Irish. It is rare in that it is one of the few games that comprises of two unequal sides. Ard Ri is played on a smaller board and with fewer pieces than standard Hnefatafl and it is one of the most challenging forms of the game. In Ard Ri the defending side comprises eight soldiers and a king, who start the game in the centre of the board. Their objective is for the king to escape by reaching any of the four corner squares. The attackers comprise sixteen soldiers positioned in four groups of four around the perimeter of the board. Their objective is to take the King. All pieces move like the Rook in chess and pieces are taken by "sandwiching" i.e. moving your piece so that an opponent's piece is trapped horizontally or vertically between two of yours. Unlike other versions of Hnefatafl, in Ard Ri the defending side starts first.
Ard Ri is associated with the Scottish Highlands with Ard Ri meaning 'High King' in Irish Gaelic. 'Irish Gaelic' you may ask? Well Scot's Gaelic is part of the same linguistic family and in fact comes from Ireland.
There's a really good description of the game and outline of its rules over at:
boardgamegeek.com/thread/346545/how-tafl-and-why-youd-want
Hnefatafl sets often contained intricately carved pieces and beautifully decorated boards and this is what we've tried to create here, taking inspiration from traditional designs and the iconic Uig Chessmen. I say we, because the board was actually created by my girlfriend Dot, who as it turns out has a bit of a talent for cheese-slope mosaics. All I contributed was the structure and pieces.
This set forms part of this year's www.bricktothepast.com collection, England, 793. The main piece of the collection is on display over summer 2016 at the Rheded Centre in Penrith.
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IAIS #513 honors the Rock Island as it leads the daily CBBI freight through Durant, Iowa. October 19th, 2013.
On this, the 5th day of our successful 16-day trek to the K2 North Base Camp and the North Gasherbrum Glacier in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, we trekked some 3.3 km (2 mi.) northwest down the true left bank of the Shaksgam River from the camp I called Junction Camp (elevation 3,840 m, 12,598 ft.). We then walked southward some 9.5 km (5.9 mi.) along the true right bank of the Sarpo Laggo River to Sughet Jangal (K2 North Base Camp, elevation 3,894 m, 12,776 ft.), initially crossing a low pass (3,831 m, 12,569 ft.) on the ridge between the Shaksgam and Sarpo Laggo Rivers 1.4 km (0.9 mi.) south of their confluence. We made two river crossings on our camels, the first across several channels of the Shaksgam and the second across the river flowing from the K2 North and North Skyang Lungpa Glaciers just 1.6 km (1 mi.) north of Sughet Jangal. The low hill known as Tek Ri (3,908 m, 12,822 ft.) at the confluence of the Sarpo Laggo (L) and Shaksgam (R) Rivers is seen right of center in this view looking northwest down the Shaksgam from the ridge separating the two rivers 8.7 km (5.4 mi.) north of Sughet Jangal.