View allAll Photos Tagged Rails
After speaking at RuPy 2009 in Pozna, Poland some of speakers went to diner. The food was very very tasty. The group of people consisted of Mike Dirolf (MongoDB), Eleanor McHugh (Hardcore Ruby), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Julian Fischer (Avarteq, Enterprise-Rails, RailsHoster), Serge Smetana (Rails Performance) and James Williams (Grails). Great people, great minds. I hope we'll meet again, soon.
Sharing the Rails
20 February 2013 -- 51/365
Providence, Rhode Island
While driving down South Main Street in Providence, I spotted this Providence & Worcester freight train idling before the station tunnel. The only reason they would do that is to wait for either Amtrak or MBTA to pass them, since there are large stretches south of the station where there's no room to pass. That was my cue to wait for a photo. It was about a ten minute wait, but I was rewarded with this shot of the Amtrak passenger train bound for New York City passing the idling freight train. Unfortunately, I thought that would be it so I returned to my car. Only then did I hear a second whistle as the Acela - Amtrak's high speed passenger train - also went past the freight. Had I only known the Acela was coming, I'd have waited since that's a much more photogenic train.
I tried this shot in black and white, but it simply didn't work so I had to stick to the color version. Post processing started with a brilliant cold filter in Topaz Adjust. I then adjusted adaptive exposure, contrast, regions, and protect highlights. A slight levels adjustment was added in PSE.
The view heading east toward Dundee from Ninewells with the Taybridge (centre) over which a small jet plane is approaching Dundee Airport.
Ballast maintenance equipment on the Simplon Line along lake Leman for the SBB-CFF-FFS railroad. The blue rig runs back and forth "on rails" set on the side of the yellow/grey railcars...Treytorrens, canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Old rails in the woods. According to Larch Mountain expert Don Nelson: "This iron rail was probably first used by the horse-drawn streetcars in 1870’s Portland. When Mr. Bessemer’s process made turning iron into steel affordable, most iron rail was pulled up and sold for scrap. This rail was likely purchased used and laid down on a short spur line off the main RR line out of Palmer. It wouldn’t be subject to the heavy wear and tear of heavily loaded trains returning with their loads of old-growth timber. The forest service sold a stand of timber about 30 or 40 years ago and a logging road was graded over the top of part of the rail line and this rail was taken up and pushed into the pile you see here. Somehow this survived the scrap drives of WWII, probably because no one knew it was here or maybe because the work of getting it out was more than it was worth."
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway model at Jingle Railsat Jingle Rails.
Jingle Rails: The Great Western Adventure is a G-scale model train wonderland containing nine working model trains that wind through a stunning miniature landscape. The exhibit features miniature versions of local treasures of downtown Indianapolis, including the Eiteljorg Museum, Monument Circle, Union Station and Lucas Oil Stadium. The trains then head through the national parks of the American West, passing legendary sites, including grand railway lodges, Northwest Coast Native villages, and wonders both natural and human-made—Mt. Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Yosemite Falls, Old Faithful, the Las Vegas Strip, Hoover Dam and much more.
Totara north
Northland
New Zealand
Where the road ends and the bush begins is the remnants of stockyards that are overgrown by trees and shrubs. Once -about 50 years ago-stock such as sheep and cattle could be penned for drenching, shearing, and sorting for their final trip to the meat works. Today the farm land has either reverted to native forest or has been planted in Pinus radiata.
Work is starting on the new streetcar line in Milwaukee including digging out the space for the new tracks on St. Paul Avenue. Rails are being stored at two locations for eventual installation.
Rails belonging to Milwaukee's first streetcar system-The Milwaukee Electric Railway (TMER)-were revealed during construction on St. Paul Avenue at Plankinton as you can see here.
www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/33448192344/in/datepos...
For more information on the new Milwaukee streetcar system go to-
In 1893 a railroad was completed to the town of Monte Cristo to haul the ore mined out of the mountains to market. The West Fork Sauk River (seen on the right) repeatedly flooded the railroad and eventually the rails were abandoned. Here, the river exposed the old rails again during spring flooding.
"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do."~Barbara Ann Scott
just some train tracks... or is it an invaluable piece of engineering that people such as myself constantly overlook considering how much this country has relied on the rails that stretch across it?
Evidence remains in a few places of the colliery that once operated on the site of Rothwell Country Park. Here, rails can still be seen embedded into the concrete surface of the tipping yard, where coal was transferred from colliery wagons to mainline trains.
They're already tearing up the temporary balloon loop at Positivgatan. Tramline closed south of Axel Dahlström this weekend, on Monday trams will be running from the new station at Frölunda torg. They're busy laying the rails. The station will still be a construction site for many more weeks.
Here is one of the views of Matanzas that have stayed with me through the years. I've never felt happier getting my knees dirty anywhere else than I did on these old train rails.
When I think of Matanzas I think of bridges.
150702-N-FQ994-024 GAETA, Italy (July 2, 2015) Sailors man-the-rails aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) as the ship pulls in to Gaeta, Italy for a scheduled port visit July 2, 2015. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/Released)
The rails have been removed from the former Eastern Line of the B&M railroad in Hampton Falls, NH. The right of way is now used as an informal recreational trail.
J created another beautiful design for the RailsConf Europe pre-conference event we'll be throwing in September. If you're attending the conference, don't hesitate and sign up!
To read the back-story, please visit my PhotoBlog at:
www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/glimpses-of-myanmar-r...