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Side story: While I was taking pictures of this church, the church guard approached me and said that no one is allowed to take photos since this church is a private organization. I failed to understand the reasoning behind why a church that is in full view to the public is not supposed to be photographed. Anyway, since I had already taken some pictures, I didn't argue and just left.
This church is called The Mosaic Church which is located in the north east wing of the Pasadena City Hall.
The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, formerly known simply as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic United States Post Office and federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida located at 300 Northeast 1st Avenue in Miami, Florida. Completed in 1933 of limestone, it is the largest such structure in South Florida.
The building was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 1997, it was renamed to honor David W. Dyer, a former Chief Judge of the Southern District who was appointed to the circuit court in 1966.
In 1926, a devastating hurricane decimated southern Florida, prompting Congress to appropriate more than $2 million for a new courthouse in Miami in 1928. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury selected the highly regarded architectural partnership of Phineas Paist and Harold D. Steward. In the 1920s, Paist had been one of the primary architects for developer George E. Merrick, for the Miami suburb of Coral Gables. Designing the building between 1930 and 1931, Paist and Steward blended classically inspired Renaissance Revival forms and design elements with Mediterranean ornamentation.
Paist and Steward developed two sets of plans, each to be built upon a poured concrete and steel structural frame, ensuring the new federal building would resist hurricane-force winds. The first was envisioned using imported marble and bronze, while the second was to use aluminum and local coralline limestone, a lithified coral quarried at Windley Key near Key Largo and called Keystone. The government opted to clad the building in Keystone, reasoning that local materials added to the regional appeal of the building. Construction commenced in 1931 and the opening ceremony was held on July 1, 1933. It remains the most monumental Keystone structure in South Florida.
When it opened, the building housed all Miami-area federal agencies with the exception of the Weather Service. The U.S. Postal Service vacated the building in 1976. It was occupied by federal courts and various federal agencies until 2008. It is contained within Federal Courthouse Square, a two-block area that includes two other courthouses. On May 12, 2016, neighboring Miami Dade College signed a $1 a year, 115-year lease of the building for use as classrooms and lecture halls.
The building is an example of Mediterranean Revival architecture that combines Renaissance Revival elements with regional Florida architectural features. The building, which is faced in Keystone, is three stories in height, with the third story set above a widely projecting entablature on the north, east, and south elevations.
The facade, which has a slightly projecting central bay, faces east onto First Avenue and is dominated by a colonnade composed of regularly spaced engaged Corinthian columns supporting the classical entablature crowning the second story. Cast-aluminum casement window frames have embossed repeating chevron patterns. Spandrel panels depicting scenes from Florida's history are above the second story's arched windows.
The bays adjoining the colonnade feature paired Corinthian pilasters. Bas relief medallions containing classical figures in profile decorate lintels. The central parapet features a carved marble frieze incorporating a large eagle, flanked by a repeating motif of pelicans supporting heraldic shields. The entrances at the ends of the facade have surrounds of carved Floridene buff marble. The north and south elevations feature two-story Corinthian pilasters evoking the facade's colonnade. Ornate mascarons (carved faces) are found on the building's exterior.
The north and south elevations are dominated by central pavilions with bays separated by evenly spaced two-story engaged columns, placed singly and in pairs. An annex is attached to the west elevation. The building's shallow hipped roof is covered with terra-cotta tiles, typical of the Mediterranean Revival style.
Interior spaces are equally elaborate and incorporate eleven different types of marble. Entry vestibules with arched openings lead to the main lobby, where marble covers floors and forms wainscot. Marble pilasters have striking gilt capitals. An inset, multi-colored marble star pattern adorns the center of the floor. Original aluminum and glass chandeliers hang from the painted and gilt wood-and-plaster coffered ceiling. Marble postal tables retain original lamps and inset cast-brass grilles.
The double-height ceremonial District Courtroom is another significant space with well-preserved original details, including the carved wooden judge's bench, jury box, witness stand, and clerk's desk. Decorative details include fluted pilasters, rosettes, and carved plaques with floral rinceaux. At the walls, seven feet of paneled wood wainscot is located beneath scored plaster. Marble Ionic pilasters divide the window openings.
The mural Law Guides Florida Progress completed by artist Denman Fink in 1941 is located above the judge's bench and is flanked by two pairs of Ionic marble pilasters. The mural depicts the positive impact of justice guiding Florida's economic development. Fink included a likeness of himself as a draftsman and a likeness of architect Phineas E. Paist, with whom he worked in Coral Gables, as a chemist. The coffered ceiling features rosettes, stars, and shells.
Other significant artwork in the courthouse includes two striking cast-stone lunettes by Yugoslav-born American artist Alexander Sambugnac. Executed in 1938, the low-relief panels portray two allegorical figures representing themes of the spirit of justice and are placed on the lintels above the leather-covered doors. Love and Hope shows a young woman playing the lyre, while Wisdom and Courage depicts a seated figure gazing at a tablet of the law.
The interior brick courtyard admits light into the building while also providing a beautiful outdoor space commonly found in Florida architecture. A two-story loggia with a vaulted ceiling and columns surrounds the courtyard on three sides.
Keystone pilasters support arched lunette windows above the public lobby's paired French doors. Quoins (corner blocks) and Doric columns add decorative elements to the space. The courtyard's interior walls are unplastered brick, as are the exterior walls that face toward the courtyard from the north, east and south wings. The loggia's plaster walls and ceiling are ornamented with the multi-colored Frescoes in Courtyard, added by artist David Novros in 1984. An original postal marble writing table with an elaborate pedestal occupies the west side of the courtyard,
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/332633/dyer-federal-building-an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Dyer_Federal_Building_and_...
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I hope you're listening
This is my last goodbye
My last goodbye
There's no saving me
Too far gone for reasoning
My hands aren't clean
I gave it all to play for keeps
When it's over
And they throw me in my grave
I leave knowing
There was nothing left to say
There was just no saving me
So I keep on.
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I woke up to a cloudless morning in Yosemite. After looking at the sky, I had a feeling that some ground fog might develop right around sunrise. It's a wild guess but my reasoning was that since it was really cold the night before, and the forecast calls for a warmer day than yesterday, the cloudless sky might warm up the ground really fast, which will cause ground fog to develop. With that hope in mind, I headed over to a meadow that I pass by everyday but never shot in, hoping for something good.
Sure enough, ground fogs were developing as I was walking into the meadow. I found a tall stand of trees swimming in fog as my foreground and settled in for the sunrise. To my delight, some wispy clouds started to form right behind me as the sunrise approaches. I kept hoping that the wind will carry the clouds over to the top of the Half Dome before the sun peaks over the mountains.
Finally, after an agonizingly long wait, just before the sun gets too high, the clouds floated over Half Dome, and a perfect swirl of fog drifted over the tree stand in front of me. The timing was perfect! I used a 3 shot bracket here to balance out the exposure, since the shape of the Half Dome made it impossible to use my trusty graduated ND filters.
Canon 5D Mark III
24-105mm F/4
3 shot bracket, manual blend
"...by silent voice,
indeed(!) of yours, Almighty!
as spelled by whispering
above, and possibly within,
without lengthily inter-mezzo,
by utter Sun of shining beams
without preface of solid propositions,
and reasoning, and proofs of facts
from pages of abolished libraries,
and catalogs compressed by dust,
and folios on languages unknown
and then abstract
for purpose of transmitting words
from script of enigmatic Past
*****
encapsulated by the spectrum
into the Light already reigning far above
and tightly pressed upon retina of every day
by cleaning empty dust of words as if
from memory by every single image
evoked by expose' of Mother-Nature
by Wind and Sun, by pseudo-equilibrium
of proper means of jet-propulsion
of chaotic lines and images invisible,
but tangible as if on canvas,
as if dimensional, or sketched by tempera,
or flashing sparks of mute tonality
accentuating sight, and vain, but focused
upon objects of reconstructed mind..."
I will leave it to you as to whether this is a good situation or not. I would be curious as to your reasoning should you choose to decide.
The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, formerly known simply as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic United States Post Office and federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida located at 300 Northeast 1st Avenue in Miami, Florida. Completed in 1933 of limestone, it is the largest such structure in South Florida.
The building was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 1997, it was renamed to honor David W. Dyer, a former Chief Judge of the Southern District who was appointed to the circuit court in 1966.
In 1926, a devastating hurricane decimated southern Florida, prompting Congress to appropriate more than $2 million for a new courthouse in Miami in 1928. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury selected the highly regarded architectural partnership of Phineas Paist and Harold D. Steward. In the 1920s, Paist had been one of the primary architects for developer George E. Merrick, for the Miami suburb of Coral Gables. Designing the building between 1930 and 1931, Paist and Steward blended classically inspired Renaissance Revival forms and design elements with Mediterranean ornamentation.
Paist and Steward developed two sets of plans, each to be built upon a poured concrete and steel structural frame, ensuring the new federal building would resist hurricane-force winds. The first was envisioned using imported marble and bronze, while the second was to use aluminum and local coralline limestone, a lithified coral quarried at Windley Key near Key Largo and called Keystone. The government opted to clad the building in Keystone, reasoning that local materials added to the regional appeal of the building. Construction commenced in 1931 and the opening ceremony was held on July 1, 1933. It remains the most monumental Keystone structure in South Florida.
When it opened, the building housed all Miami-area federal agencies with the exception of the Weather Service. The U.S. Postal Service vacated the building in 1976. It was occupied by federal courts and various federal agencies until 2008. It is contained within Federal Courthouse Square, a two-block area that includes two other courthouses. On May 12, 2016, neighboring Miami Dade College signed a $1 a year, 115-year lease of the building for use as classrooms and lecture halls.
The building is an example of Mediterranean Revival architecture that combines Renaissance Revival elements with regional Florida architectural features. The building, which is faced in Keystone, is three stories in height, with the third story set above a widely projecting entablature on the north, east, and south elevations.
The facade, which has a slightly projecting central bay, faces east onto First Avenue and is dominated by a colonnade composed of regularly spaced engaged Corinthian columns supporting the classical entablature crowning the second story. Cast-aluminum casement window frames have embossed repeating chevron patterns. Spandrel panels depicting scenes from Florida's history are above the second story's arched windows.
The bays adjoining the colonnade feature paired Corinthian pilasters. Bas relief medallions containing classical figures in profile decorate lintels. The central parapet features a carved marble frieze incorporating a large eagle, flanked by a repeating motif of pelicans supporting heraldic shields. The entrances at the ends of the facade have surrounds of carved Floridene buff marble. The north and south elevations feature two-story Corinthian pilasters evoking the facade's colonnade. Ornate mascarons (carved faces) are found on the building's exterior.
The north and south elevations are dominated by central pavilions with bays separated by evenly spaced two-story engaged columns, placed singly and in pairs. An annex is attached to the west elevation. The building's shallow hipped roof is covered with terra-cotta tiles, typical of the Mediterranean Revival style.
Interior spaces are equally elaborate and incorporate eleven different types of marble. Entry vestibules with arched openings lead to the main lobby, where marble covers floors and forms wainscot. Marble pilasters have striking gilt capitals. An inset, multi-colored marble star pattern adorns the center of the floor. Original aluminum and glass chandeliers hang from the painted and gilt wood-and-plaster coffered ceiling. Marble postal tables retain original lamps and inset cast-brass grilles.
The double-height ceremonial District Courtroom is another significant space with well-preserved original details, including the carved wooden judge's bench, jury box, witness stand, and clerk's desk. Decorative details include fluted pilasters, rosettes, and carved plaques with floral rinceaux. At the walls, seven feet of paneled wood wainscot is located beneath scored plaster. Marble Ionic pilasters divide the window openings.
The mural Law Guides Florida Progress completed by artist Denman Fink in 1941 is located above the judge's bench and is flanked by two pairs of Ionic marble pilasters. The mural depicts the positive impact of justice guiding Florida's economic development. Fink included a likeness of himself as a draftsman and a likeness of architect Phineas E. Paist, with whom he worked in Coral Gables, as a chemist. The coffered ceiling features rosettes, stars, and shells.
Other significant artwork in the courthouse includes two striking cast-stone lunettes by Yugoslav-born American artist Alexander Sambugnac. Executed in 1938, the low-relief panels portray two allegorical figures representing themes of the spirit of justice and are placed on the lintels above the leather-covered doors. Love and Hope shows a young woman playing the lyre, while Wisdom and Courage depicts a seated figure gazing at a tablet of the law.
The interior brick courtyard admits light into the building while also providing a beautiful outdoor space commonly found in Florida architecture. A two-story loggia with a vaulted ceiling and columns surrounds the courtyard on three sides.
Keystone pilasters support arched lunette windows above the public lobby's paired French doors. Quoins (corner blocks) and Doric columns add decorative elements to the space. The courtyard's interior walls are unplastered brick, as are the exterior walls that face toward the courtyard from the north, east and south wings. The loggia's plaster walls and ceiling are ornamented with the multi-colored Frescoes in Courtyard, added by artist David Novros in 1984. An original postal marble writing table with an elaborate pedestal occupies the west side of the courtyard,
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/332633/dyer-federal-building-an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Dyer_Federal_Building_and_...
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
One of my favorite local refuges has let some loggers come in and cut some really old growth hardwoods. I found several trees over 60 years old that were cut. I am not sure of the reasoning behind the logging but I do know it has really messed up one of my favorite birding spots. So sad.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird pair - Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Musta been something he/she said, and there was no reasoning with her that morning! Here he had to put on the brakes, and do a rethink about sitting next to her on the branch.
Coulda been worst, if it had been a Great Blue Heron pair,
'cause there's nothin' like GBHes when it comes to bad attitude!!!
The sun is setting as this fellow who was striking a pose for me while setting on top a fence post.
I love the sound of the crows as I'd go hunting in the early mornings. The bad part was they are nature's alarm system which wasn't helping me out while hunting lol.
They are extremely smart and it is estimated that they have the reasoning abilities of a seven year old child.
I also find them interesting for they use military tactics.
Making use of scouts and guards.
I hope you enjoy this highlighed crow portrait with a back drop of the Tennessee mountains, Cades Cove to be exact.
Have a good one guys and thanks for visiting!!
Meeting point for persons interested in the Rastafarian culture
Traditional reference at the festival for all those who are interested in approaching the Rastafari livity or are simply curious to learn more about it. A space to reflect upon and discuss around this theme.
House Of Rastafari, features Nyabinghi chants, Reasoning Grounds, art and photography exhibits, as well as fundrising activities to support solidarity projects in Ethiopia and Jamaica.
Program:
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Rototom SunSplash 26º European Reggae Festival.
Benicàssim 16-22 August 2019 (Spain)
COURSE, THAT NEVER happened…(see quote within photo)
Had the AVRO ARROW, Number 106, flown with the newly completed and newly fitted “MIGHTY” IROQUOIS Orenda engines, the world speed record would have been shattered! Not just broken.
Unofficially, the Arrow had already broken the record with only the American Pratt and Whitney jet engines.
And Orenda’s “Mighty Iroquois” were just that, with a tested (at the Nobel, Ontario Orenda facility) and confirmed 27 % more engine thrust…than the Arrow’s then currently used Pratt and Whitneys.
The Federal Government of the day, led by Canada’s most inept Prime Minister of all-time, John G. Diefenbaker, that obtuse, small-town prairie lawyer, who gave the word to the RCAF that 106 was not to fly…
It was not, must not, be allowed to break the world speed record with those new Canadian engines.
If the record was smashed, the rationale went, how could “Dief” explain to the Canadian public, that in spite of that notable accomplishment, he was cancelling the Arrow and Iroquois Projects, and he would also be destroying all existing Arrow aircraft and Iroquois engines…blueprints, tooling, jigs etc., until not a trace was left.
Well, he couldn’t.
But despite John G.'s megalomaniac order, and decree of absolute destruction, some of Canada’s aviation love story did survive!
The nose, wings, and front undercarriage of Arrow 106 remain intact today. And are on display in Ottawa, at the Canadian Aviation Museum.
The Arrow presently gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
So a nation that was supposed to forget…didn't.
Arrow 106 was a Mark II, meaning it came with Orenda Iroquois engines.
But how, HOW did these parts escape……when all the others didn’t?
Because someone in the RCAF, at great personal risk (criminal prosecution) had these top secret project artifacts hidden away…until such a time when “cooler heads would prevail.”
Course…that never happened either. Canada as a nation never did get over the debacle.
So, when it was safe to do so…when "Dief" was out of office, the remaining Arrow treasure was “discovered” at some RCAF Station and transported to the Canadian Aviation Museum in the early 60s.
And remember, if my party was in charge, under our “Right Those Wrongs” Policy we would commission an Arrow II Project that would aim to be all the present F-22 is and more…and its design would be based on an evolved Arrow.
The AVRO Newsmagazine featured on an all-Canadian quilt, was an in-house Avro Canada production produced twice monthly for Avro personnel. It had the latest company news, featured entertainment reviews by legendary Canadian Elwy Yost!…and even had a classifieds section.
This edition, only three months away from infamous Black Friday (February 20th) noted that the Arrow pre-production projects would be cancelled in February of '59…because the federal Government had concluded fighter interceptors were obsolete! AVRO Canada was openly optimistic that line of reasoning could be countered noting various USAF commitments to similar US jet interceptor programmes that were contracted through to the mid 70s. If unmanned Bomarc missiles were the answer…why was the USAF so committed to these non-missile, fully manned, aircraft programmes?
ALSO IN THIS EDITION, in response to media requests, the general public was informed that the Mark II Arrow fitted with Iroquois engines would be able to set a new world speed record “anytime we wanted to” but such an achievement would be a secondary byproduct of aircraft testing and not a goal, in, and of itself–
(That's Avro test pilot, "Spud" Potocki, in that Mark I Arrow. Spud was the test pilot who flew one of the Arrows "unofficially" to Mach 2.1)
Cerro de los Siete Colores (The Hill of Seven Colors) is one of the hills bordering the Quebrada de Purmamarca in Jujuy Province.
Its unique color range is the product of a complex geological history including marine sediments, lake and river movements elevated with the movement of the tectonic plates.
Aside from the commonly known name this colourful hill carries, the locals of the town of Purmamarca also refer to it as the Hill of the Seven Skirts. This is an unofficial name, and not many people other than those who live here refer to it this way. The reasoning behind this second name is because of the resemblance between the colours on the hill and that of the traditional, long skirts worn by Andean women.
This print is now for sale. 100 print run, on archival ink / semigloss finish, $50.00 print only, 12" x 18". Contact me via Flickrmail if you're interested.
Testing my newly gained understanding of HDR and photoshop skills.
7-shot RAW HDR tonemapped via PhotoMatix 3, then imported into Photoshop for artifact correction. Final color balance tweaks, cropping and rotation in Lightroom.
This is another step forward to where I want to be, as far as techniques and workflow ability goes. The next step will be getting panorama tools setup correctly to shoot this as a ultra-high resolution panorama.
During post-processing, all 3Gb of RAM was taken up by Photoshop and Lightroom (mostly Photoshop). I will need a computer upgrade to be processing things this way when I get my 5D Mk II. (Along with monitor calibration hardware if I'm serious about selling prints).
Update
Someone had FlickrMailed me about the post processing on this photo. I'll share the technique here.
I read through StuckInCustom's excellent tutorial here - before I headed out into the field. The enlightenment moment for me is realizing that when I first started doing HDRs, I wanted to capture that magical glow in the scene, and typically I go for the overexposures. However, I've always neglected the underexposed frames and as a result I don't have the data to fix the blown out light sources.
I think this scene works, because the arches in the pac sci center, and the neon signs on top of Key Arena, is very readable and not blown out / blurry due to overexposure. If this scene had a body of water in front of it I would have shot the long exposure shots to capture the glow off the water, but longer exposures here just blow out the scene and doesn't give me any more usable data to work with.
Now that you understand my reasoning going into taking this picture, the rest of the technique / workflow:
* I shot a series of shots in manual mode, ISO50 on the 5D, on a tripod with mirror lockup and self-timer (did not have cable release).
* The shots were bought into Photomatix, combined and tone mapped for detail enchancement. I up the white and black points to spread the histogram out and make the scene brighter and I played with the smoothing of the luminosity until I got something I liked.
* I then tone map this into a 16 bit TIFF, and send this TIFF into Photoshop
* I exported the RAW files for the darkest and a medium exposure out of Lightroom into Photoshop. I should play with this as a smart object, but I didn't have a lot of time editing this.
* The exposures are stacked top to bottom: HDRed TIFF, darkest exposure, normal exposure. Note that despite careful use of tripod and mirror lockup the camera still shifts between shots. I used the auto-align feature (layers, autoalign) to correct for the camera movement. I thought it was pretty cool... (I'm a photoshop n00b).
* Mostly I just use a layer mask, 30% transparency brush to brush away the blown / artifacts from the neon to expose the lowest exposure (middle layer) to repair the neon signs.
* I did some blending of the lowest and median exposure layers to try to give a better result with the neons.
* The result is saved into a flattened TIFF and bought back into Lightroom.
* I applied a white balance correction on the *final* product. I shot this on RAW, tungsten balance and found it too warm for my liking, so I decreased the color temperature until I got something I liked.
* Cropped and rotated it so that the buildings are actually vertical. I need to buy a new bubble level :-)
That's it! :-)
Thanks for all the comments, guys!
Canon EOS 6D - f/9 - 13sec - 100 mm - ISO 200
Labyrinth is a game of physical skill consisting of a box with a maze on top with holes, and a steel marble.
The object of the game is to try to tilt the playfield to guide the marble to the end of the maze, without letting it fall into any of the holes. The game features a suspended maze surface that rotates on two axes, each of which is controlled by a knob.
A classic wooden tilt steel ball/marble game
Encourages fine motor skills, visual-spatial skills, reasoning
A classic game, still as challenging as ever
Twist knobs to change board position and keep the marble rolling!
If marble falls, it rolls out from the lower level - Try Again!
Obstacles are numbered 1 to 60
"If we close our eyes the brain immediately conjures up a medley of impressions of light and color, apparently a sort of imitation and echo of the impressions forced in upon the brain during its waking moments. And now the mind, in co-operation with the imagination, transforms this formless play of light and color into definite figures, moving groups, landscapes. What really takes place is a sort of reasoning from effect back to cause."
During the chase of BNSF 4986 E along the Hi-Line Subdivision, the eastbound grain train would meet a westbound grain train that was in the hole at NYACK waiting for clearance down the pass. It was 13:35 by the time both trains met, and I figured it would make sense to break off the eastbound and chase the westbound back down the pass towards Columbia Falls and grab lunch afterwards. I had no clue was on the head end for power either; who knew what it was, it could’ve been something good, which only added to my reasoning. Dispatch wasted no time giving the westbound a light towards Whitefish, kicking off a brief 20-somethin-minute long chase through the Flathead Range.
An opening in the foliage along U.S. Route 2 at Bad Rock Canyon along the Flathead River proved to be a suitable spot to set up at, although by all means not a unique angle [the geotags at this location on RailfanAtlas say so]. At 14:07, the westbound would come into sight weaving it’s way along the northern banks of the River downgrade approaching CONKELLEY. #BNSF5828 [ES44AC] and #BNSF1018 [Dash 9-44CW] lead the company grain train through the Canyon trodding over a heavily graffitied retaining wall. The two lead units sport distinguishable paint scheme, neither of which are widely used on the roster.
5828 has the distinction of being the first of ten “25th Anniversary”GEVO’s painted in Mid-America Car in 2020 for BNSF. The units sport the decals of eight predecessor railroads: The CB&Q, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern, ATSF, Frisco, Colorado & Southern, and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The trailing 1018 sports the railroad’s “Heritage 1” paint, the company’s first official paint scheme introduced in 1996. Two other BNSF motors would bring up the rear in DP position; a 2x2 grain train.
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Columbia Falls, MT
BNSF Hi-Line Subdivision
Date: 07/30/2022 | 14:07
ID: [unknown]
Type: Grain
Direction: Westbound
Car Count: 115
1. BNSF ES44AC #5828 [25th Anniversary]
2. BNSF C44-9W #1018
3. BNSF C44-9W #5044 [DPU]
4. BNSF ES44C4 #6599 [DPU]
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
Taken on August 28/2011
Lauderhill, Florida, USA
LG Electronics MS690
CCR-Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Texture by lenoirrtextures: texture 06
Thank you very much Marion!
and
A touch of French Kiss Brushes Thanks a lot Leslie!!
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paradox
/ˈparədɒks/
a statement or proposition which, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems logically unacceptable or self-contradictory.
Another one from a fair while ago that I've only just got around to processing. There was a stunning sunset going on over the left however I wanted a shot of the bridge at high tide so I was shooting out into the cloud (I know where did that stuff come from!).
Anita, you would have been impressed, I'm knee deep in water in my waders here, my primary camera was on a tripod in the water taking this LE shot. My primary camera being my new Pentax K30 at this point, and my K200D which had done me proud for a good few years was acting as temporary backup. I'd always wanted to have two cameras so that I could shoot LE with one and use the other to grad other shots. Anyway it was a little bit difficult trying to do that knee deep in water... so I did get some hand held shot of the sunset which I may or may not post as I'm not convinced I like them.
The thing is I don't really like doing anything that isn't LE as I enjoy the smoothing out of time and features you get in LE work whereas the sunset shot I've got I feel just looks like a mess. I might just post it for a laugh or I might try doing something to it in photoshop, faux LE.
Talking about the K30, I paid £500 for it and then about a week later they dropped the price of it and also started giving away a cashback. So I was able to buy a second one for £320. By my reasoning I was averaging it out so it was roughly £400... not bad considering the prices I see for some of the Canikons. So I've now got two pretty decent cameras and no need to change lens so I'm hoping for less of that pesky dust!
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Female catches and killing a white-vented Myna.
The myna fights for dear life but its fate is sealed after a brief moment of struggle. Equipped with powerful talons, it does not take much effort for the hawk to overpower and squeeze the life out of this helpless myna.
I realized that myna bird comprises a large part of the hawk's diet. My hypothetical reasoning would be that goshawks are not part of the urban community where mynas and pigeons strive. These abundant city dwellers do not recognize the hawk as a natural predator (except human and domestic cats) and therefore they end up as easy preys.
To the hawk, it's a wining formula, nonetheless.
Dedicated to my staunch critic T.V.Kalyan or fondly known as KTV
Every shot of mine that I liked, he absolutely hated it and those I disliked, he loved it.
Re-uploading this shot for him as he did not like the "blue" in the previous attempt
www.flickr.com/photos/anuj_photos/7216295844/
BTW worry not....I have often paid him back on his shots in the same coin ;)
Critic invited. Which one you liked (if at all) from the two post processings ? you reasoning will greatly help me to learn more.
Also this happens to be my 200th upload on flickr !!
Chicago,, 2018
Reasoning behind the photo can be found in my blog at www.fernandocoelho.photography/blog
B.L.M. = Black Labs Matter - All the rest is bullshit
Flickr should be about PHOTOGRAPHY and not political correctness.
Before I was an Army helicopter Pilot, I served all races, religions, and creeds as an Army Medic. Trust me on this, we all bleed the same color. Beneath the epidermis, we are all the same color.
Mr. George Floyd was needlessly killed by a white Minneapolis Police Officer.
Ms. Justine Ruszczyk was needlessly killed by a black Minneapolis Police Officer. She is white (Caucasian). Oddly, racism was claimed when he was prosecuted for her death. How does that work?
Did anyone riot, loot, torch cars in the streets, burn shops, and tear down statues, in memory of her?
Or, doesn't her life matter as much?
Flickr, if you do not like my reasoning or if it represents too much truth and logic, then do not send me SPAM!
All you are doing is perpetuating anarchy, like facebook, twitter, and media pretending to be fair and unbiased.
Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the go back and see what you missed why don't ya file. "
This from my one of my trips in 2005 to Myanmar. Soooo.... I shot this in Yangon just before one of my journeys to the outskirts of the absolute middle of nowhere and traveling back to the 19th century.
Josef Sude, one of my strongest visual photographic influences, had a practice of after developing the negatives he shhot he'd wait six months before he would print the images from those negatives. His reasoning was "so that he could see the image with eyes a new." Which is why I do not delete anything. Hard drives are cheap. So on rainy days (usually on Sundays) I go back and look at the past for things I may have missed.
I hand held this image at a 1/15 of a second. So we know vibration reduction works.... and I must have been on my first cup of coffee.
Shot with the D200 enhanced color IR modification the 28-300mm Nikkor (AKA "The Street Sweeper") my when in doubt go to lens.
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"My cat never laughs or laments. It is always reasoning."
Miguel de Unamuno.
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Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.
just as the trees on the bank of a lake are reflected in the water so also all these varied objects are reflected in the vast mirror of our consciousness.
This creation which is a mere play of consciousness, rises up like the delusion of a snake in a rope and comes to an end when there is right knowledge.
Even though bondage does not really exists it becomes strong through desire for worldly enjoyments. When this desire subsides, bondage becomes weak.
Like waves rising up from the ocean, the unstable mind rises up from the vast and stable expanse of the supreme Self.
It is because of that, which always of its own, accord which imagines everything quickly and freely that this magical show of the world is projected in the waking state.
This world, though unreal, appears to exist and is the course of live long suffering to an ignorant person just as the non existent ghost is the course of fear to a child.
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If you separate yourself from the body and abide at ease in consciousness you will become One, the sole reality.
Everything else appears insignificant, ....
After knowing that by which you know this, the world, turn the mind inward and then you will see clearly the effulgence of the Self.
That by which you recognize sound, taste, form and smell, - know that as yourself, the supreme Brahman, the Lord of Lords.
That in which beings vibrate, that which creates them, - know that Self to be your real Self.
After rejecting, through reasoning, all that can be known as non- truth, what remains as pure consciousness, regard that as your real Self.
Knowledge is not separate from you, and that which is known is not separate from knowledge, hence there is nothing other than the Self, nothing separate from it.
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from Yoga Vashishta Sara
I am often asked why dolphins leap out of the water when swimming. People often think they are having fun and it certainly looks that way. Dolphins have spindle cells in their brains as do elephants, apes,whales and humans. This gives them the capacity to express emotions along with cognitive reasoning, individual identification and problem solving.
During the summer i see and observe their behaviour three time a week.
Dolphins are mammals and breath the same air we do, when they are hunting they can demonstrate amazing bursts of speed, to facilitate a sustained chase and to increase speed they will leap out of the water where there is less friction and also enabling them to grab a breath without slowing down.
They also travel the seas, the dolphins that live in Lyme Bay cover vast distances and when on a fast swim will often breach to grab a breath.
Dolphins also get marine parasites on their skin, it is thought they will often do some extreme leaping to help remove the pesky parasites. And of course they do love to play. I have seen them over and over playing in the surf, leaping and surfing down large waves for no other reason than it is just a fun thing to do.
Celebrity 90018 in its Freightliner 60 (1965 - 2025) livery draws to a halt at the colour light gantry guarding Golborne Junction with 4M30 the Saturdays only Grangemouth - Crewe 'liner'.
* I took this three weeks ago and have not uploaded reasoning I would eventually get it in sun ... alas not to be, its a rare bird for me.
* Pole @ 3m.
I was reading the classic by John Calvin circa 1536, written in Basel, Switzerland.
"God left us with many gifts of the Spirit. We see in these a trace of the image of God, which distinguished humans from the other creatures. 11.ii.18 – 11.ii.21 – Reasoning with regard to heavenly things consists of three things; 1) knowing God, 2 ) knowing his fatherly favour, and 3) knowing how to live by his Law. In regard to the first two, without the illumination of the Spirit of God, we are like travelers in a rain storm at night, in which brief flashes of lightening show the way, but glimpses are too quickly lost to be of any real good. In reality we are as good as blind to spiritual matters when left on our own. "
Food for thoughts.
The Series-2 Defense Mech is by far and away the most advanced model we have created here at Megabot Enterprises. A new gyroscopic stabilizer allows it to keep its balance on almost any terrain, and an advanced reasoning processor allows the Series 2 to make snap judgments in the heat of battle. This revolutionary new mech combines all the best traits of the other mechs in this business, and upgrades them to new heights. This is, in a word, perfect.
This came out better than expected. I was watching the movie Chinatown, and I decided to grab a handful of bricks to mess around with while I watched. An basic version of this was the result. I'm still not too sure about the color blocking, but I'm pretty happy with the shape.
Inspiration from anything Ironsniper has posted within the last month :)
(Published in Photo Technique, Spring 2013)
(Explore #270)
Living in Devon, I'm very lucky to have easy access to a wealth of picturesque, iconic, and even downright dramatic locations both here and in the surrounding counties. Many of these are world renowned, and arguably none more so than is the case with Botallack Mine in Cornwall - just a couple of hours drive from me. Bizarrely, I've recently been enviously studying a lot of images from Dungeness in Kent, and then suddenly realised I've perhaps been overlooking sites closer to home. It's not that I was unaware of Botallack - far from it - it's been on my list of places to visit for years, yet somehow I just hadn't got around to it. It was something of an eye-opener to get the opportunity recently, and I'm glad I did. Some places have an indescribable, rather unique aura about them and in this regard Botallack doesn't disappoint. Certainly there's a wealth of information about this historic area available on the internet, so I shan't bore you with tales of it's past. I shall instead point out that should you decide to investigate further and as a result pay a visit you're in for a treat - it's rare to find yourself in such a place steeped with an almost palpable sense of heritage and intrigue.
Of course, the summer of 2012 being what it is, my trip coincided with dour skies and drifting bands of rain. This in itself wasn't necessarily a bad thing - somehow I couldn't imagine Botallack in anything less than forbidding circumstance, yet as anyone knows rain droplets are the enemy of a photographer's lens. As my visit had been something of an unplanned affair, I'd done nothing in the way of research, but was anxious to at least take a couple of shots before the incoming weather worsened and the light faded completely. I've since come to realise just how frequently this vantage point has been used before me, but at the time I felt it was perhaps one of the few I could take advantage of due to it's sheltering position from the elements. Hunkering down behind a huge vertical outcropping of rock (and yes, I cast several wary glances at it while the wind veered around it's contours), I found a spot where I could wedge my tripod in the dry and go to work. In truth, I have resolved to return as don't think I really sought out 'my' angle here, yet at least another time I will have the benefit of some familiarity - plus the knowledge of one or two other vantage points I spied having checked out the lie of the land. I feel as if I'm touching on this a lot lately - the relative pros and cons of shooting the overly familiar as opposed to the completely overlooked... I don't believe there's a right and a wrong approach - such binary reasoning is for mathematicians and pregnancy tests(!), yet I personally get more satisfaction from successfully exploiting a hitherto unexplored vista. This may not mean on a different occasion I'll shoot from the hip while abseiling down one of these engine houses, but the brave never say never!
As for Dungeness, well, I'm still massively enthusiastic to pay a visit, and intend to do so in the winter months to empthasise the bleak atmosphere thoughts of the place always conjure for me. Even the rugged allure of Botallack can't dampen my ardour... Any photographic trip including five lighthouses, numerous decrepit buildings, boats, and a couple of nuclear power stations can't be bad!
I thought I'd try something a bit different, so here's my Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson standing on the footpath outside their lodgings, 221b Baker Street.
I am also currently working on figures based on the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear.
Next up is a Scandal in Bohemia.
I'd love to hear what you think.
Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque. Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically as a naked young woman being unveiled by a figure of Time above her, but the figure of Time was never executed.
Upon his election to the papacy in 1623, Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini took the name Pope Urban VIII and appointed Bernini as the principal artist for the papal court in Rome. According to Bernini's biographer Baldinucci, Maffeo had 'scarcely ascended the sacred throne' when he summoned Bernini and told him:
"It is your great fortune to see Cardinal Maffeo Barberini Pope, but our fortune is far greater in that Cavalier Bernini lives during our pontificate."
Bernini enjoyed great success during his time as the principal artist for the papal court but, after Urban's death in 1644, he was removed by the incoming pope, Innocent X. The new pope had more conservative tastes and favored Bernini's rival Algardi. Despite the fall from favor this did not stop Bernini from occasionally working for the new pope - One of his most famous works, the Fountain of the Four Rivers, was one of the projects done for Innocent. He still maintained his position as the architect of St. Peter's despite his removal from the papal court and, after Innocent's death in 1655, was immediately given two major commissions at St. Peter's: decorating the Cathedra Petri and building a colonnade round the piazza.
Bernini's rationale for creating Truth Unveiled by Time was, according to his son Domenico, as a sculptural retort to attacks from opponents criticizing his failed project to build two towers onto the front of St. Peter's Basilica. While this is certainly plausible, historians are unsure of the validity of Domenico's claims relating to his father's reasoning. Cracks had appeared in the facade due to the inability of the foundations to support the towers and Bernini's architectural expansion received the blame. What many fail to mention is that most of the blame lies with Carlo Maderno, the previous architect who built weak foundations for the monumental task being requested, and Pope Urban VIII, who kept pressuring Bernini for heavier, more elaborate bell towers.
During the difficult time after Urban's death, Bernini was able to find peace and serenity in his overwhelming confidence that one day he would be vindicated. So strong was this conviction that he created Truth Unveiled by Time to express this confidence in his eventual vindication. Despite this conviction, the sculpture of Father Time was never begun and the project remained incomplete. It has been suggested by historian Franco Mormando that Bernini's return to public favor after Innocent's death might have made the sculptural piece lose the emotional urgency it had previously possessed, which would make sense considering he had been reinstated to his previous place in the upper echelons of society.
We've all heard of 'puppy dog eyes' and 'piercing blue eyes' but this fellow's stare is remarkable. This is day three of this fellow in the back yard each day. This is through both the storm and back door's glass. I'm now convinced it is an immature Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) rather than yesterday's assumption of Red-tailed. Like others, I'll string out my reasoning in a photo-a-day style.
Busier times at Rook Yard on the former P&WV.
The frac sand boom has since died off at Rook, and so has the gas trans loading that took place in the yard as well. This picture, taken in August of 2014 shows when the Wheeling was finally pouring some of the money they were making back into their own infrastructure. As a direct result, new ties, brand new CWR and tons of new ballast were laid to replace the older materials. The yard tracks were also slightly lengthened as well.
Basically, the yard was completely rebuilt from the ties up. Although rebuilt, this proved to be a constant challenge during the first year of the rehabilitation. This resulted in more ballast being needed than originally thought.
For some reasoning this day, the 610 Rook crew was unable to use the Wheeling power sitting on the west end of the yard for switching duties. This left 2 AVR unit's as the only power in the yard left that could be used.
A call was made from the Wheeling dispatcher to Carload Express to seek permission, which was later granted. During the earlier years of the natural gas boom on the Wheeling, yards consistently found themselves short on power throughout the system. As a direct result an order of 20+ SD40-2's were purchased off of various leasing companies to help shore things up.
Some snowflake are large tree-like sculpture, while others are tiny, almost coin-like in design. This one falls into the latter category. Hexagonal but rich in detail and surface texture, snowflakes of all sizes are worth observing. View large!
This snowflake is the reason for one of my theories in yesterday’s post. It clearly had “ridges” that are raised above the normal crystal structure, and some of them have begun to grow outward and “plateau” along their top edge. This was yesterday’s reasoning for how the side-branches appear to be growing underneath the main branch; you’re seeing the same physics at work.
The interesting thing about such small snowflakes is that you can observe interesting features in a simpler way. The ribs and ridges of the crystal can be easily identified and understood, but the thickness of the snowflake can also be seen. Very obvious at the bottom corner, you can compare the thickness to the other dimensions. If you notice a slight brightness shift about halfway down the “tall” side of the snowflake, you might be seeing evidence of “crystal twinning”.
This would be a small groove along the middle of this thickness cause by evaporation. Such evaporation would only happen if the molecular bonds were weaker, where two separate crystals joined together. This is quite common with column-style crystals, and I’ve seen it on smaller plates – but none this large before.
Regardless of the physics, this snowflake represents a tiny sculpture of nature. One that must follow certain rules and is created based on specific variables, but it’s also one we might find beautiful. It’s not often that math, science and physics equates to “beauty” in the eyes of the average person. The best exception I can think of is snowflakes.
For a deeper look into how snowflakes form, and how to photograph them, check out the book Sky Crystals: Unraveling the Mysteries of Snowflakes: skycrystals.ca/book/ - makes a great Christmas present and shipping daily!
Some people just want to admire the beauty of these gems, and for that there’s “The Snowflake”, a print created with 2500 hours of work across five years: skycrystals.ca/poster/
One of these well behaved and lovely brides will be the winner of "Best Sindy Wedding Gown" ever!!
Her prize will be a date with this young gentleman, who's anxiously been waiting to be let out of his box... What was that? .... He'd like to stay in there? .. Nonsense!
Anyway, to vote you simply write the year you think should win down below. You can add your jurys reasoning if you like. I will in a few days time count the votes and notify the winner..... and let Paul out. Hooray!!
I will then also reveal my own favorite.
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To you who just clicked on this photo. If you go to my stream you'll see all the 15 brides to choose from. Yeah I know, it's a lot, and you can only pick ONE.
Since ancient times, the islands and coastal areas of Greece had boatyards where wooden ships were built. Wooden ships, also known in Greek as *kaikia* (aka caïque), played an important role in the economy.
These boats had unique technical, typological and cultural features, some of which dated back to the Byzantine-medieval era.
In 2013, the kaikia was added to Greece's National Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Sadly, however, these works of art are today being destroyed after the European Union decided in 1983 to subsidize fishermen to scrap their boats. The initial reasoning behind this questionable decision was to tackle overfishing.
Besides the EU's irrational decision which failed to consider the importance of the kaikia tradition for Greece, decades of inactivity on the part of Greek officials led to the destruction of thousands of handmade wooden boats.
Эфемерные облака и неподвижные камни.
Было утро , но палящий степной зной стремительно набирал силу. Все замерло в ожидании ливня . Все кроме вездесущих ящериц и меня , устало бредущего к своей палатке. На земле штиль , а над головой
кордебалет быстро движущихся облаков, напоминающий пляски половцев .
Проходя мимо очередной группы валунов моя камера щелкала в такт хаотичным мыслям . В этот
момент понял глубокую связь между эфемерными облаками и неподвижными валунами. Оба созданы силами времени и природы, воплощая постоянно меняющуюся суть существования. Облака, отражают быстротечность жизни, отбрасывая тени, которые изменяются в такт капризам ветра и времени . И наоборот, стойкие валуны символизируют устойчивость перед лицом невзгод, отражая неизменную сущность каждого из нас.
В это знойное утро сделал для себя открытие - одно из проявлений красоты заключается в тонком балансе между движением и неизменностью.
Возможно такие рассуждения возникают после перегрева под палящим степным солнцем , а может виновата просто ФОТОГРАФИЯ.
А. Суховский
Украина. Николаевская область. с Актово.
Ephemeral clouds and motionless stones.
It was morning, but the scorching heat of the steppe was rapidly gaining strength. Everything froze in anticipation of the rain. Everyone except the ubiquitous lizards and me, wearily wandering towards my tent. There is calm on the ground, but overhead
a corps de ballet of rapidly moving clouds, reminiscent of the Polovtsian dances.
Passing by another group of boulders, my camera clicked in time with my chaotic thoughts. In that
moment I realized the deep connection between ephemeral clouds and motionless boulders. Both are created by the forces of time and nature, embodying the ever-changing essence of existence. Clouds reflect the transience of life, casting shadows that change in time with the vagaries of the wind and time. Conversely, resilient boulders symbolize resilience in the face of adversity, reflecting the unchanging essence of each of us.
On this sultry morning, make a discovery for yourself - one of the manifestations of beauty lies in the delicate balance between movement and immutability.
Perhaps such reasoning arises after overheating under the scorching steppe sun, or maybe the PHOTOGRAPHY is simply to blame.
A. Sukhovsky
Ukraine. Mykolayiv region. v Aktovo
I almost think DHG and I were crazy for going inside a house this dilapidated. Almost, but not quite. The photos are well worth the risk.
My reasoning: the floor is holding up the piano....it'll definitely hold for DHG and me, there wasn't much left of the roof, just the aluminum siding and a few 2x4s.....that wouldn't kill either of us and if the floor did fall through, it wasn't far to the ground. In my mind = safe!
no ps for today. no tricks just trips. those who get it get sucked in. those who don't point their clean fingers. i won't bite got better things to do with my fangs. how dark a hole how big a plunge how absurd the reasoning how about a matter of choice.
is this description lame or what.
(en) : an algobug in the reasoning . . is not it?
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Etude du jour:
1 - Zero is a number.
2 - The immediate successor of a number is a number.
3 - Zero is not the immediate successor of a number.
1 - Zéro est un nombre.
2 - Le successeur immédiat d'un nombre est un nombre.
3 - Zéro n'est pas le successeur immédiat d'un nombre.
( Giuseppe Peano )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Cumberland Mine SD38-2 #1 brings up the west end of 38 cars of loaded coal. Standing prominently just a stones throw away from Bridge #4 on the railroad is the White Covered Bridge. The bridge, which was not built, but was erected (specifics here people) in the year 1900 over a small tributary of water called Whiteley Creek. Here we are 117 years later it's still standing, and for the nearly last 40 years so has the Cumberland Mine Railroad.
That's the simple run down mention above. If you feel like reading a damn novel, then keep reading below because here's a history lesson for you:
The Cumberland Mine railroad was a creation of the United States Steel company in the mid 1970's to haul coal from company owned mines. The railroad is 17 miles in total length, with no public grade crossings along the entire length of it.
To save myself a lot of writing and drawnout explaination of the reasoning behind this railroad in the first place, I'll instead use this small excerpt from Trains Magazine's online article "Five more weird coal moves":
"The intended customer was Ontario Hydro; under the plan, coal was shipped by rail to the transloading terminal, then by barge downriver to the (USS-owned) Union Railroad's coal dock at Duquesne, Pa. Reloaded into railcars, the coal went north to Conneaut, Ohio, via the Union and fellow Steel road Bessemer & Lake Erie. At Conneaut, the coal was transferred to lake boats for the last leg to Ontario. As it turned out, the Ontario Hydro contract never really came to fruition. The mine and railroad passed through several owners, and it's now operated by Alpha Resources.
In 1976, EMD delivered a single SD38-2, USS No. 1, painted in corporate colors. A number of years later, No. 1 was joined by ex-Yankeetown Dock SD38-2 No. 22, which retained its number when painted to match No. 1. The single train set is usually 30 coal hoppers, bracketed by the SD38-2s in a "pull-pull." - Lee Gregory"
A few critical things the article fails to mention is that the railroad runs at a trackspeed of 30mph, and with little to no communication on the radio. (when they do, it's likely on CB.) The trains are run with a 1 man crew handling everything from the running of the train, to the loading of the train and the dumping of the train. When the engineer is not in the engine, it is controlled by remote control.
Anyhow, since the writing of that 2010 article by Trains Magazine, the Cumberland Mine had taken delivery of MVPX SD40-2 #3098 and 10 OFOX rapid discharge coal hoppers. Upon delivery of the 3098 in February of 2014, it was eventually repainted from it's "white ghost" CITX leaser paint to match the #1 and #22. This unit (CMYX 3098) is tasked with handling a 2nd train set that runs with 27 cars, while the SD38 pairing also now run with 38 cars, instead of 30 like quoted in the article excerpt above.
The reasoning for the addition of a 3rd locomotive to the roster and the 10 more additional coal hoppers was done in order to compensate for the increased production at Cumberland Mine. This in turn was a direct result of Alpha Resource's closure of the nearby Emerald Mine in Waynesburg, PA in late 2015.
Since Emerald Mine's closure, most of the coal today has shipped by barge downriver to Labelle, PA. From there it is reloaded into train cars for trips to various customers, both domestically and internationally.
Not your every day occurrence but from time to time the dispatcher will route Amtrak 5 down the uphill track 2 instead of the downhill track 1 to the right. The reasoning behind this decision on this afternoon was likely due to a few things. One being that 5 was almost an hour late and by using the short, faster track 2, it would help make up for lost time. The other being, while 5 was at its station stop on track 2 in Colfax, an eastbound stack train was climbing the grade below on track 1 because of not having tunnel clearance for its double stacks on track 2 through Applegate. The dispatcher decided to keep 5 on track 2 for the rest of the way down to Roseville. Here it is seen approaching the double tracked tunnel 18 at Newcastle, CA in late afternoon light. September 2017
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Joe Chill: I gave him my BrickWarrios hobo hat which I think looks better than the hair he had, but I gave him Dastan's head which I do not like as much as Filch's head. The reasoning for the head is I want to make some of my Harry Potter figs back
Fig Formula- Brickwarriors hat, Dastan head, City torso, Ideas legs
Phantom Stranger: With my 3rd Batman bricktober pack, I decided to give the wizard batman cape and collar to Phantom Stranger. I also gave him Robin's head. Do not fear, I have 2 Lucius Malfoy torsos.
Fig Formula- Robin head, Wizard Batman collar/cape, Lucius torso
Zsasz: Decided to make this guy back. I will eventually get him a mutant leader torso
Fig Formula- StarWars head, TLBM torso and legs
Judge- Dylan's judge was phenomenal so I copied it
Fig Formula- CMF 9 wig, black figure parts
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