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FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- Several contractors with Safway Inc., working in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East facility, disassemble scaffolding here, July 27, 2010. The scaffolding was erected to allow contractors to work safely while installing the arched roof of the building, and is disassembled one piece at a time, and then passed down the scaffolding to tethered workers positioned on each level. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion project as part of 2005 Base Realignment and Closure military construction programs which are ongoing at or near Fort Belvoir. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes)
With the first car's door open showing an impatient conductor ready to step off his charge, Amtrak southbound Adirondack is about to stop at the hand throw switch at Cantic, the junction point between CN-owned Rouses Point and Swanton subdivisions.
Despite the switch being already lined the good way for Adirondack in order to continue its trip toward the border with New York State, CN dispatcher had another plan.
Behind me, stopped clear of Cantic's three road crossing was CN L529 who's waiting its turn toward Montréal after a long night on the road.
The poor Amtrak crew had to use the Swanton subdivision as a siding, heading into it in order to clear the Rouses Point subdivision and let the two CSX units in charge of L529 proceed northbound before backing clear of Cantic, realign themselves on the Rouses Point subdivision and finally proceed southbound for it's next stop; the US custom at the Rouses Point station.
Not a long time ago, Cantic with its diamond crossing and multiple legs connecting the two subdivisions was all remote-controlled by the CN dispatcher.
Amtrak P69421-10
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Milepost 5.29 CN Rouses Point subdivision
Lacolle,QC
January 10th 2018
Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) rolls past Mauser Milling in Treichlers, Pennsylvania, on an early spring day in 1989. The track configuration at Treichlers changed quite a bit over the years, including the one-time double track being single tracked and realigned between the two former tracks. Lineside trees have since encroached on this location
Noted photographer Garland McKee was certainly on my mind when I tripped over the shutter for this one... Having just emerged from Little Tom Tunnel, westbound empties continue grinding upgrade at Banner, Virginia on the N&W Clinch Valley District. The superior rock pile looming in the background carries a realignment of US Alternate 58 across a hollow to reach the top of Pine Mountain.
Appropriately, the date was April 1, 2023.
BRAC 133
NOTE: This image is an HDR, or High Dynamic Range image, and is a combination of three photos.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An early morning exterior view of the Department of Defense Office Complex (BRAC 133) project here, Oct. 5, 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District, part of the North Atlantic Division, is managing design and construction of the $1.08 billion project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo illustration by Marc Barnes)
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FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- Brig. Gen. Peter "Duke" DeLuca, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division commander, and Martin Dougherty, a civil engineer working on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East project, view ongoing work in the atrium of the NGA building here Nov. 2, 2010. The $1.7 billion NCE project is being constructed as part of ongoing 2005 Base Realignment and Closure programs on and around Fort Belvoir. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes)
I managed to capture this drake Goosander flapping its wings to dry or realign its plumage after submerging a few times. If you zoom in on the beak you can see the serrated teeth that help these fish-eating ducks to keep hold of fish. If they did not have these it would be like trying to pick a sardine up with a pair of blunt scissors.
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NOTE: This image is an HDR, or High Dynamic Range image, and is a combination of three photos.
FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- An early morning exterior view of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East project here, Oct. 12, 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, part of the North Atlantic Division, is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo illustration by Marc Barnes)
This 725 feet-high hill (Law in Old English means hill) is some four miles east of Haddington in East Lothian, and is a major landmark that can be seen from many miles around. It is volcanic in origin and is the site of an oppidum - an ancient Celtic fortified town or hill fort - which covered at its maximum extent about 16 ha (40 acres). There is evidence of occupation and signs of ramparts from around 1000 BC. The ramparts were rebuilt and realigned many times in the following centuries. Excavations have shown it was occupied in the Late Iron Age from about AD 40 until the last quarter of the 2nd century (about the time that the Antonine Wall was manned by the Romans). Following the Roman withdrawal to Hadrian's Wall, it was predominantly occupied from about 220 until about 400 when the rampart was replaced by one that was more impressive.
It is the site of the Traprain Law Treasure, the largest Roman silver hoard from anywhere outside the Roman Empire and which included exquisite silver artefacts. These are now in the care of the Royal Museum of Scotland.
Source: Wikipedia
Moving on a few years from the previous image and the view has changed somewhat. The previously hidden bridge over the River Nith had been replaced with a new impressive structure along with a new farm access bridge plus realignment of the track bed as 57305 passes with a diverted Sunday Glasgow to Euston service. A short stretch of the original track was retained, acquired by the owner of the adjacent Portrack House to display some preserved vehicles. During 2019 when covering a 37 hauled railtour I did try to see if this particular standpoint was still on. A notice on the gate stated "Bulls in Field" which were clearly visable, so I chose to give it a miss.
The light from this galaxy left it some 40 million years ago! This is NGC7331, part of the Deer Lick Galaxy Group. Look carefully and you will see even more distant galaxies as small smudges.
Really pushing things with this image. This object lies around 40 million light years away. My tracking is still so-so, so perhaps a mount realign is needed. This object really needs more data as well.
Image Details:
•Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain FL2000mm @ F6.3
•Imaging Camera: Nikon D7000
•Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval Refractor
•Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Autoguider
•Guiding Mount: Celestron CGEM
•Guiding Software: PHD2
•Exposures: 12*7 minutes at ISO1250
•Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
•Tweaked in LightRoom - Clarity, Blacks, Vibrancy, Saturation, DeNoise
The twilight lingered late that morn...
...casting the skies a lavender hue
when the sun rose over the water...
...the shore sparkled in frozen dew
the serenity of the water sounds...
...the calm of the clouds and mist
an orb of light broke through a cloud...
...it appeared to be heaven kissed
what a more perfect time to realign...
...to let all the troubles float away
clear your head of negatives...
...at the beautiful start of the day
before the day gets hectic...
...before the schedules become rushed
spend a moment in the peacefulness...
...where life is lavender and hushed.
Written by Kelly Schlicht
Staying Local today as the Wilton to Knowsley Empty waste bins pass Ravensthorpe station & Thornhill L.N.W Jn. The transpennine route upgrade works visible on both sides. Also the site of where the new flyover will be when all the tracks are realigned. Then this shot will not be possible anymore as the old Ravensthorpe station and footbridge is removed and relocated.
Toronto sunrise - Toronto Downtown Gardiner Expressway - The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway, commonly known as the Gardiner Expressway or simply the Gardiner, is a partially at grade and elevated municipal expressway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Running close to the shore of Lake Ontario, it extends from the foot of the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in the east, just past the mouth of the Don River, to the junction of Highway 427 and the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) in the west, for a total length of 18.0 kilometres (11.2 mi). East of Dufferin Street to just east of the Don River, the roadway is elevated for a length of 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi), unofficially making it the longest bridge in Ontario. It runs above Lake Shore Boulevard east of Spadina Avenue.
The highway is named after the first chair of the now-defunct Metro Council, Frederick G. Gardiner.[2] The six-lane section east of the Humber River was built in segments from 1955 until 1964 by the Metropolitan Toronto government with provincial highway funds. The ten-lane section west of the Humber was formerly part of the QEW. The Gardiner Expressway is wholly owned and operated by the City of Toronto.
The highway has been described as "an out-of-date, crumbling and frequently traffic-jammed freeway".[3] Particularly for the elevated section whose condition has deteriorated over the years, extensive repairs were carried out in the mid-1990s, coinciding with significant commercial and residential development in the vicinity. Due to its limited capacity and high maintenance, the Gardiner has been the subject of several proposals to demolish it or move it underground as part of downtown waterfront revitalization efforts. The section east of the Don River was demolished in 2001, while in 2018 the offramp to York/Bay/Yonge Streets was replaced by an offramp to Lower Simcoe Street, and the segment east of Jarvis Street to the Don River is being realigned as of August 31, 2021.
With General Manager Heuser at the helm pulling on the whistle cord blowing for Rice Rips Road, a westbound passenger extra is about to knock down the approach signal to the end of CTC at CPF 119 in Oakland. The newly aquired FP9's have only been painted a few months and are taking Governer Baldacci for a train ride to officially cut the ribbon on the Danville Junction reconfiguration project. The project consisted of removing the diamond and realigning the mainlines throught the small interchange yard. The project was jointly funded by Pan Am Railways, St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad and the State of Maine.
Oakland, Maine
October 22, 2010
NGA CAMPUS EAST
FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- An exterior view of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East project here, Aug. 19, 2010. Along with NGA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, part of the North Atlantic Division, is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes)
Excerpt from urbantoronto.ca:
The 57-metre, 350-tonne bridge span, designed by Entuitive along with London-based Grimshaw Architects and SBP, will carry the realigned Cherry Street over the Keating Channel. This first span will be joined by a twin, with one side to carry two-way vehicular traffic and the other carrying dedicated two-way lanes for a future LRT line.
This is the village of Luib on Skye looking east to the islands of Scalpay (right) and Raasay (left).
The main road south to Kyleakin used to go to the right here (I've added a note showing a bridge on the old road) but at some point in the 1920s the main road (now the A 87) was realigned to the route shown here round the coast through Aird Dhorcha and Strollamus. I think this was at the same time the road was re-routed along what is now the "old road" through Moll.
NGA CAMPUS EAST
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo illustration by Marc Barnes (NOTE: This illustration is a combination of several photos)
(RELEASED) May 26, 2010 -- An exterior view of NGA Campus East Main Office Building and Parking Garage at Fort Belvoir North Area, Va.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing the $1.7 billion project, which is being constructed as a result of BRAC 2005 law.
Union Pacific 7794 East, leads a heavy eastbound 116 car coal-load up the twisting 2% grade of Winter Park Hill. The train could be heard struggling out of Tabernash for 20 minutes before reaching MP60 at Kings Crossing. The freshly shopped GEVO has just transversed a series of sharp 10 degree curves, as well as a tight horseshoe curve. Heavy eastbound trains are brought too a crawl when reaching this spot, and if a train is going to stall it is usually here. The DRGW once thought of realigning Winter Park Hill on a new 1% grade, but it was decided to be too costly.... So today the assault on Winter Park Hill remains the toughest obstacle for eastbound tonnage originating between the Wasatch Mountains and the Rocky Mountain Front Range...
The old Moorgate station, on a bright sunny day in 1959. The entire station had been badly damaged during WWII, and the platforms were completely open to the elements..
From left to right - Metropolitan 'T Stock' on the through line from Liverpool Street, 'F Stock' (probably on an Uxbridge service..) another 'T Stock' unit, LMS Fowler 3P 2-6-2T 40022 - with condensing gear, and a new Birmingham RC&W Type 2 - at that time operating on GN Suburban services.
The destination board on the 'T Stock' still says ''Moorgate St.'', even though the station had not been called that since 1924..
None of the 'F Stock' were preserved, but there are two ex-departmental 'T Stock' cars remaining, at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, and seen here in October 2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/45015600024
40022 was withdrawn at the end of 1962, and scrapped in April 1963. None of the class were preserved.
The London-area BRC&W Type 2s all moved up to Scotland, and later became BR Class 26. No less than 13 examples have been preserved, although not all of these are in working order..
The old Moorgate station was demolished in the early-1960s, and the tracks from here towards Farringdon - LT and BR 'Widened Lines' - were realigned and relocated, during the construction of the 'Barbican' Estate..
The current Moorgate sub-surface station, and lines to and from it, are completely subterranean..
Restored from a grainy misaligned truncated original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before terminating in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles.
It was recognized in popular culture by both the 1946 hit song "Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It was also featured in the Disney/Pixar animated feature film franchise Cars, beginning in 2006. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the highway symbolizes escape, loss, and the hope of a new beginning; Steinbeck dubbed it the Mother Road. Other designations and nicknames include the Will Rogers Highway and the Main Street of America, the latter nickname shared with U.S. Route 40.
US 66 was a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous, and they later fought to keep it alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the more advanced controlled-access highways of the Interstate Highway System in the 1960s and 70s.
US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but it was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985 after it was entirely replaced by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona have been communally designated a National Scenic Byway by the name "Historic Route 66", returning the name to some maps. Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the former US 66 into their state road networks as State Route 66 and much of the former route within the San Bernardino County, California, is designated as County Route 66. The corridor is also being redeveloped into U.S. Bicycle Route 66, a part of the United States Bicycle Route System that was developed in the 2010s.
Nackara is a ghost town in the Northeast Pastoral District of South Australia. It was proclaimed the Town of Tregu in 1891 until 1940, where it was changed to Nackara to match the name of the railway station.
Nackara was originally a railway siding on the Peterborough (South Australia) to Broken Hill (New South Wales) train line which was completed in approximately 1888, mainly to transport the ore from the Broken Hill mines to the South Australian ports.
The town was planned to have several streets with suburban style yards, however this never eventuated. The Nackara township never consisted of more than a few railway cottages, a town store/post office (part of a house), a community hall (the Nackara Institute), a Catholic church, a Presbyterian Church, a school, the railway platform, cattle yards, and a cemetery. The planned roads didn't ever eventuate, with only dirt tracks through the very dry paddocks.
The community consisted of families from the surrounding grazing land, and the railway workers. While the township never grew as planned, the community did have many social events such as picnics, town dances, and concerts, annual horse races, and car races. The town also competed against the other local towns in at least rugby and cricket.
The local population were mainly immigrants (many Catholics from Ireland and several Polish families), and mainly worked as sheep and cattle graziers, railway workers, wood carters, shearers and labourers. There was a vibrant local Catholic community who had annual Catholic Picnics to raise money to erect a Catholic church. The church (Saint Patrick's) was a small church built of stone on the top of the hill overlooking the Nackara township.
The area is too dry to support much livestock, so Nackara never grew beyond around 20 families and the township didn't develop. After the railway was realigned several kilometres to the south around the 1960s, the town died. There are only several graziers left in the area now.
Nackara School and the disused Nackara Institute (community hall) are all that remain standing within the Nackara township. The school is now a private residence. The (corrugated iron) Presbyterian church has gone, the Catholic Church was demolished (around the 1960s), the main store (home and post office) is now stone rubble with a chimney.
Source: Trove (trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47205687)
From the lofty vantage point provided by the US Forest Service's access road, a westbound NS freight train scorches the rails along the floor of the cavernous ravine created by the former Southern Railway's realignment projects of the 1960s on the afternoon of April 5, 2025, near Dead Ox Hollow, KY.
After washing and preening an trumpeter swan usually flaps it's wings to shed water and realign its feathers.
This cattle pass is under the old Erie Main line between Chester and Goshen, NY. Later highway construction and road realignment in the 50's left virtually no pasture at this end.
NOTE: after the very helpful suggestions below, I've cloned the offending fence out, as well as realigning the ground and changing the title. Thanks to everyone who suggested crops and ways to fix this - very much appreciated and I think this version is an improvement, which is good news as I really liked this composition when I made it :-) The wire mesh fence /was/ on the right of the shot, where there's now a blank wall, right up against the trunk, and green.
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I thought I'd post something with completely determinate scale...
This tree is deep within the Canyon de Chelly, in eastern Arizona, a place I very much enjoyed visiting. The slight haze over this shot is snow - visible in the larger version - which fell near-constantly as we drove around the canyon, in and out of the shallow, sandy river, with a Navajo guide.
Needless to say, perhaps, that fence really annoyed me, though having spent several minutes looking for a composition which excluded it, I concluded that the green/orange contrast had something going for it.... still, I'd rather it hadn't been there! The canyon is full of ancient, native American artefacts (buildings and paintings) and many are protected from damage by fences; great if you're photographing the 1,000 year old buildings - they're not really very intrusive - but pesky when what I was concentrating on was trees.
I have a blog article specifically on this brilliant canyon to be published shortly.
She walks where time forgets to breathe,
Among the ruins wrapped in gold and green,
A goddess crowned in curls and calm,
A whisper draped in soft sunbeam.
The arches echo stories passed,
Of queens who dared to dream out loud,
Now here she stands with steady heart,
Unbound by fear, unbowed, unbowed.
Barefoot grace on broken stone,
Each step a vow to rise anew,
The vines may cling, the path may wind,
But she was made to journey through.
A temple lost in ivy’s hold,
Yet still it waits to see her shine,
For every ruin holds a light—
And hers, divinely, realigns.
She does not rush, she does not stray,
Her compass drawn from soul and sky,
For those who walk with sacred fire
Need not ask how, nor wonder why.
So if you ever lose your name
To noise, or doubt, or past’s decay—
Let her remind you with one glance:
You’re not lost.
You're just…
finding your way.
This gas station and store combo sits west of Barstow and east of Hinkley in the Mojave desert. It was operated by a Mrs. McCormick and her son Bud in the 1940's and 1950's. No one seems sure when the doors were locked for the last time, but it's a good bet it was sometime around 1964, when a realignment of the highway routed the stream of customers away from the tiny enterprise. What's left of the place is now home to pigeons, mice, and probably any number of other unseen creatures. Soon, it will belong to the desert again. Thanks to _RedShoesGirl_ for the back story.
Notched out through Miller Polk has his steel laden train from Burns Harbor under control as he passes the current Miller station. In the not so far future this station will be closed, the main double tracked and realigned, the road moved and a new station will be built.
NGA CAMPUS EAST
FORT BELVOIR NORTH AREA, Va. -- An exterior view of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East project here, Aug. 19, 2010. Along with NGA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, part of the North Atlantic Division, is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes)
Processed In Apple’s Photos editor followed by Affinity’s haze removal app on my computer.
There is color fringing visible on the upper moon limb. It’s time to take the camera to Best Buy for realignment of the optics.
Amtrak train 173, a Boston to Washington regional, with the standard ACS64 and Amfleet consist swings around the curve between the Orms and Smith Street overpasses on Main 1 of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor as it slows for its station stop in the Ocean State's capital. The tight curve here at MP 185.4 is just east of the 'new' station built in 1986 to replace historic Union Station when old New Haven mainline was realigned to remove the 'Chinese wall' from downtown and open up the Providence River which had been buried for a century. The old 1898 Union Station has been repurposed as offices with a restaurant and brewery downstairs, and the modern four platform station is now the 11th busiest on the Amtrak network and second busiest on the MBTA commuter rail system outside of Boston.
Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday November 23, 2022
Argyle Stairs.
Argyle Street, The Rocks takes its name from Gov. Macquarie who gave it the name in honour of his childhood home, County Argyle, Scotland.
In the early days of the colony The Rocks was an isolated community which was separated by a steep rocky outcrop of which buildings occupied which in turn meant that people were forced to travel to gain access to the other side of Sydney.
This was often undertaken by travelling around Dawes Point or the alternative route to access the eastern side was to negotiate a series of barely serviceable stairs.
It was not an ideal situation and it remained unaltered until 1911-12 when the Sydney Harbour Trust realigned Gloucester and Cumberland Streets and Argyle Cut was widened to 9 metres and the Argyle Stairs were constructed to replace the original wooden stairs that provided access to Bunker’s Hill.
Today the Argyle Stairs provide pedestrian access to Cahill Walk that runs above Circular Quay and beside Cahill Expressway and if you follow it you will find yourself on the walkway that takes you across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The Rocks.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
NGA CAMPUS EAST
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes
(RELEASED) July 12, 2010 -- Jim Stickovitch, a Balfour Beatty Construction quality control electrical specialist, inspects electrical components and logs notes on a tablet computer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East (NCE) project site at Fort Belvoir North Area, Va.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion complex as part of ongoing 2005 Base Realignment and Closure projects at Fort Belvoir.
Norfolk Southern AC44C6M #4270 and four other units bring up the tail end of an enormous coal train conquering Elkhorn Grade and entering Elkhorn Tunnel outside of Maybeury, WV on February 20, 2021. This section of railroad was developed by the Norfolk & Western beginning in the late 1940s as part of a massive realignment project to create a more efficient flow of traffic over Elkhorn Mountain to and from Bluefield, WV. Before 1950, when this massive realignment was completed, all trains east and west were routed through the old Coaldale Tunnel which was single track and essentially acted as a bottleneck for all rail traffic east and west. The difference in the flow of eastbound traffic was immediately noticed in 1950 upon completion of Elkhorn Tunnel and the new Elkhorn Grade with export coal increasing 14% as compared to 1949.
Here it is, the only other example of the "tall and skinny steel elevator" that the Alberta Wheat Pool experimented with in their waning days. The other is about a three and a half hour drive north in Starland County, which I have posted on here before. This elevator is the only one left in Etzikom after the classic wooden types here were demolished soon after the rail was lifted. What's interesting is that recently the highway was realigned over the old roadbed for a stretch, staring here at Etzikom as you can see in this photo. If I was standing here some 20+ years ago, I would have been standing on the tracks.
A little puddle provides a near perfect mirror for my second look at Norfolk Southern local H04. Previously relegated to working overnight under the cover of darkness thanks to pandemic reduced train frequencies on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor they have been working on days starting at 0900 at Baltimore's Bayview Yard and working to the big Clorox plant in Perryman daily and as far north as Havre de Grace at least once a week.
Here they are seen on the old line having just finished working Plastipak Industries they are getting their train back together so they can start back south. The old line is a 1 3/4 mile long stub of the old main line through town that lead to the original 1866 bridge. After the mainline was realigned slightly on the approach to the new and higher 1906 structure still in service the old line into town was retained and more than a century later it still has three rail served customers located on it.
NS 5620 is a GP38-2 that was rebuilt with a chopped nose in 2005 from a Southern high hood GP38AC oroginally blt. Aug. 1971 as CNOTP 2871.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Friday April 2, 2021
NGA CAMPUS EAST
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes
(RELEASED) July 12, 2010 -- An upward view through massive scaffolding which is set up at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East (NCE) project site at Fort Belvoir North Area, Va.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District is managing design and construction of the $1.7 billion complex as part of ongoing 2005 Base Realignment and Closure projects at Fort Belvoir.
An empty frac sand train headed back the CN negotiates the shoo-fly at Battery Park. NS is now in the process of realigning the mains to the original right-of-way.
Melting snow, and water run off coming down off the snowshed over Stevens Pass. This was the realignment on trackage now abandoned. Left as a walking trail. Iron Goat Trail. As waters flowed down and the natural sunlight. Gave a nice long exposure.
The two week blockade at Carstairs for the realignment and rebuilding of the junction has seen a large number of engineers trains moving materials from Millerhill and Carlisle Kingmoor LDC's. One such working is seen here with the sole DB class 66 to carry 'Powell Duffryn Ports' advertising livery. 66 109 is seen at Milepost 67½ just south of Thankerton with what will be 6X40 15.00 Abington South to Kingmoor Yard. The train had run north the previous day as the 16.13 Kingmoor Yard to Carstairs carrying new pointwork on the Kirow tilting deck wagons.
Fall 2011 was spectacular in Healy Canyon and in addition to the 4 daily passenger trains that traversed this during the daylight hours 2011 had the added bonus of a company work train that would traverse the canyon numerous times between the money makers. Seen here on the realignment that bypassed the Garner Tunnel, which the maintenance road still enters but does not exit.
NGA NEW CAMPUS EAST
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Marc Barnes
(RELEASED) March 24, 2010 -- An aerial view of the NGA New Campus East project site, which is located at Fort Belvoir North Area, Va.
Design and construction of the $1.7 billion NGA New Campus East project is being managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District.
Memory photo at the end of the famous Route 66 in Santa Monica :)
U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before terminating in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). US 66 was a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but it was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985 after it was entirely replaced by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona have been communally designated a National Scenic Byway by the name "Historic Route 66". Route 66 was recognized in popular culture and has been featured in many books and movies, often playing a key role in them.
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Pamiątkowe zdjęcie na końcu słynnej drogi Route 66 w Santa Monica :)
U.S. Route 66 lub też Route 66 (popularnie "Mother Road", czyli "Droga-matka") – otwarta 11 listopada 1926 roku trasa przejazdowa w USA o długości 2448 mil (3939 km) łącząca Chicago z Los Angeles, a od 1936 przedłużona do Santa Monica. Przebiegała przez stany Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahomę, Teksas, Nowy Meksyk, Arizonę i Kalifornię. Całość trasy uzyskała utwardzoną nawierzchnię w 1938 roku. Swoją największą świetność przeżywała w okresie wielkiego kryzysu lat 30. ubiegłego stulecia. Była wtedy główną magistralą wiodącą fale migrantów ku zachodowi, głównie do Kalifornii. Trasa przez swe powstanie stała się nitką komunikacyjną rozwijającą gospodarkę miejscowości znajdujących się przy niej. Route 66 została oficjalnie skreślona z listy autostrad krajowych 27 czerwca 1985, kiedy została zastąpiona przez autostradę Interstate 40. Odcinki U.S. Route 66 przebiegające przez stany Illinois, Nowy Meksyk i Arizona w 2005 roku zostały uznane za narodową drogę krajobrazową o nazwie Historic Route 66. Łączna długość drogi na tych odcinkach wynosi 2269,2 km i stanowi popularną atrakcję turystyczną. Route 66 była inspiracją dla wielu twórców i znalazła się w wielu książkach oraz filmach, często odgrywając w nich kluczową rolę.
The Desailly Rotunda was erected in August 1914 to honour the life of former Shire of Mildura President Cr George Desailly, who passed away in 1913 whilst in office.
The rotunda was designed by architect Edward C Sharland, who was also responsible for the designs of many prominent Mildura buildings including Rio Vista, the Coffee Palace, and the town's first hospital - known as Cottage Hospital.
An important meeting and event location, the rotunda was the rallying point for the Mildura community during the Great War. Concerts, recruiting rallies, fundraising events, farewells and welcomes for returning service men were regular events.
When word of the Armistice reached Mildura at 0930pm on the 11th of November 1918, the news spread quickly.
Three bandsmen from the Mildura District Band immediately started playing at the rotunda and were soon joined by other musicians and the townspeople.
Featuring ornate metal framework, the rotunda stairs originally faced east towards the Carnegie Library and were realigned in 2021 as part of a major redevelopment.
Source: Mildura Rural City Council.
30 Thursday is a little bit of a stretch, but the trailing unit is, or was a GP30 at one time, but now serves as a road slug. CSX loaded rail train J021 flies westbound through the outer edges of Pendleton, Indiana on CSX's ex-Big Four (CCC&StL)/NYC/PC/CR Indianapolis Line Subdivision. This piece of the main was on one of the realigned portions when Big Four upgraded the line by double tracking, and rerouting out of the some of the downtown's it traveled through. Greencastle, Indiana, and DeGraff and Sidney, Ohio were also rerouted around to name a few. The reroute in Sidney gave way to the now somewhat famous arch bridge that has been popular among photographers.
CSXT GP40-2 6924 started out life as WM 4352, and was built by EMD for Western Maryland in January of 1979.
JCPenney Department Store located at 201 West Main St. in Arlington,TX. The building is currently occupied by a museum under the name Arlington Museum of Art. Note the Ben Franklin variety store (207 West Main St) is currently occupied by an administrative office for
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Its also worth noting the shops past the JCPenney store were razed to make way for a new library which resulted in the realignment of Main Street.
On a final note The Arlington Museum of Art acquired the 24,000 square foot building from JCPenney in 1984.