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Building the Intercolonial Railway back in the 1860s and 1870s was not for the faint of heart. ICR Chief Engineer Sanford Fleming endured more than a decade of engineering challenges in order to link Halifax with the western markets of Quebec City and Montreal.
A few site were more complicated than others like this one, located a mile and a half west of St.Noël, Fleming, in order to save the cost of building a bridge over Tartigou River, had it's construction crew bore a tunnel thru the rock in order to reroute the river away from the not yet constructed roadbed.
Talk about ingenuity !
The rock debris, issued when ICR crews pierced the roadbed thru the same rock cut, was used to stabilize the embankment along with keeping an acceptable rolling grade.
I made the walk -in heavy rain no less- from St.Noël to the tunnel on a cold autumn day, hoping to catch Campbellton-bound L562 passing the site of one of Fleming's legacy.
CN L56221-21
2294 8845
Milepost 85.6 Mont-Joli subdivision
St.Noël,QC
October 21st 2025
UP GP40-2 1361 leads a local in Superior, WI. Once a regular unit on the Harvard Sub, the elimination of ATS in favor of PTC has caused it to be reassigned up here to the other end of Wisconsin.
Thurnau Castle, viewed from the opposite bank of the pond in the little town’s centre, Thurnau, Franconia (Bavaria), Germany
Some background information:
Thurnau Castle is a castle complex located in the little town of Thurnau in the district of Kulmbach in Upper Franconia. It is one of the largest and most significant castle complexes in Franconia, with construction phases dating from the 13th to the 19th century. The oldest part of the castle is the so-called "Hus uf dem Stein" (in English: "House on the Rock"), dating back to the 13th century, which you can see on the left of this picture. It was built by the knights Förtsch von Thurnau and stands atop a sandstone rock that extends up to the third floor. Between 1430 and 1477, an archive building and a residential wing were added.
The complex is arranged around the Upper and Lower Castle Courtyards, which are connected via a gate passage. Each courtyard has a separate entrance from the town. The "House on the Rock", with façades facing both courtyards, towers over the entire ensemble. On the south side stand the Cent Tower and the White Tower. Two wooden covered walkways connect the northeastern round tower with the church and the "House on the Rock" with the extension building from the Renaissance period.
After the knights Förtsch von Thurnau had become extinct in 1566, the castle and the associated lordship passed as a condominium to the noble families von Künsberg and von Giech. Although the castle and property were initially divided amicably, disputes arose, and by 1576 the castle and its associated villages were divided between the families. Only the market town of Thurnau remained under joint administration.
Between 1600 and 1606, Hans Georg von Giech commissioned the construction of the Hans-Georgen-Bau, a large extension in the Renaissance style. Many changes followed after the family von Giech was granted the title of Imperial Counts in 1695. Karl Gottfried I von Giech had a grand stuccoed hall built on the upper floor of the Hans-Georgen-Bau and constructed a new church between 1701 and 1706. From 1729 to 1731, another extension, the baroque Carl-Maximilian-Bau, was erected in the Upper Courtyard.
Over more than 150 years, relations between the two families and their households were often strained. In 1688, tensions escalated into a shootout, during which a von Künsberg servant died from his wounds. Christian Carl I von Giech fled Thurnau to avoid legal prosecution and lived until his death in Buchau and Nuremberg. In 1731, the conflict was resolved when the family von Giech bought the von Künsberg share of the castle and became its sole owners. Without the 165 years of shared and competitive ownership from 1566 to 1731, the castle’s vast size would be inexplicable. Upon their departure, it was stipulated that the von Giech family must preserve all von Künsberg coats of arms present on and in the building.
In 1919, the last count, Friedrich Karl von Giech, moved out of the castle and relocated to Wiesentfels Castle. He died childless in 1938. The castle then passed by inheritance to his nephews, Barons Karl Gottfried and Siegfried Hiller von Gaertringen. After both heirs had been killed as soldiers in World War II, the minor son of the elder, Johann Christian Hiller von Gaertringen, inherited the castle. As from 1945, the building complex served as accommodation for numerous refugee families. More than 80 people lived there during this time, but by the early 1950s, Thurnau Castle had emptied of refugees again and the owner family began to carry out numerous restoration measures.
In 1975, the family Hiller von Gaertingen moved out of Thurnau Castle and transferred it to the Count Giech Hospital Foundation. In 1991, politicians, entrepreneurs, and institutions founded the Thurnau Castle Science Center. Its chairmen were the district administrator of Kulmbach and the president of the University of Bayreuth. Parts of the castle were made available to the University of Bayreuth for use. Since then, the complex has undergone additional extensive restoration with government funding.
With its more than 4.600 residents, Thurnau is a little market town in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach. The town is situated on the northern edge of Franconian Switzerland, about 15 km (9.3 miles) to the northwest of the city of Bayreuth and about 45 km (28 miles) to the northeast of the city of Bamberg. The A70 motorway crosses the municipality from east to west. The town was first documented in 1137 under the name "Durnowa" and its history is closely linked to that of the castle and its noble owner families.
im almost 100 percent sure this was the last time we shot in this field; its since been fenced off. which is so totally unfair.
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thanks to brenda starr for the texture...she has free ones available at www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/4485511681/in/pool-140.... if i can get my head around textures i'll definitely be saving up for some of the flypapers from borealnz...jill your images are amazing and i'm saving my $'s :).
starting to get colder here so i'm jealous of all the spring shots from my contacts. thought i'd enjoy a tasty mac's dark beer and have some fun in photoshop. have a great weekend everyone!
u-ziq...bic runga | drive
View On Black...to step into the ultimate dream batch|crib :)...well for me anyway...come on lotto!
This huge bronze statue of the Iron Duke has caused an uproar since its unveiling. Its not that the good citizens of Edinburgh resent his presence but more that he blocks the busiest street in the city. Some would like him relocated, but its likely he will stand his ground.
Kiev-88, Volna 2.8/70. Kodak PPN 160 negative film, expired in 2006.
Jianmincun, a village from the 60's near Zhongtan Lu.
I don't care for staging shots at all, but sometimes, when I find a bug on the side of the house, shooting it right there can make for a pretty boring backgound. This broad-nosed weevil is the species Otiorhynchus raucus and it was one of those - on the (light grey) side of the house.
I therefore took the liberty of relocating it two meters and place it one a leaf in the garden and proceeded to shoot it there instead.
This was shot at 2.7:1 magnification and is a short focus stack of three exposures as it was kind enough to stay still for me.
Subway #22506 (closed) [1,800 square feet]
2291 George Washington Memorial Highway, The Shops at York River, Hayes, VA
Opened in 2000, closed/relocated in October 2008
The kids had spotted this little 'un in the house. Decided to relocate it somewhere more suitable (Apple tree in the garden) and have a go at photographing it
BPRR 3323 leads RS-1 on NS’s Dead Track in Silver Springs, NY, around 2 brand new CP rebuilds in the pocket. With GEs arriving on the BPRR, 3323 was shipped over to the RSR. Silver Springs was one place I would’ve never even imagined I’d be shooting 3323 in.
Vientiane - Viangchan - Pha That Luang - Golden Wat
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That Luang is a gold-covered large Buddhist stupa in the centre of Vientiane, Laos. Since its initial establishment, suggested to be in the 3rd century, the stupa has undergone several reconstructions as recently as the 1930s due to foreign invasions of the area. It is generally regarded as the most important national monument in Laos and a national symbol.
The That Luang according to the Lao people was originally built as a Hindu temple in the 3rd century. Buddhist missionaries from the Mauryan Empire are believed to have been sent by the Emperor Ashoka, including Bury Chan or Praya Chanthabury Pasithisak and five Arahata monks, who brought a holy relic (believed to be the breastbone) of Lord Buddha to the stupa. It was rebuilt in the 13th century as a Khmer temple which fell into ruin.
In the mid-16th century, King Setthathirat relocated his capital from Luang Prabang to Vientiane and ordered construction of That Luang in 1566. It was rebuilt about 4 km from the centre of Vientiane at the end of That Luang Road and named That Luang. The bases had a length of 69 metres each and was 45 metres high, and was surrounded by 30 small Stupas.
In 1641, a Dutch envoy of the Dutch East India Company, Gerrit van Wuysoff, visited Vientiane and was received by King Sourigna Vongsa at the temple, where he was, reportedly, received in a magnificent ceremony. He wrote that he was particularly impressed by the "enormous pyramid and the top was covered with gold leaf weighing about a thousand pounds". However, the stupa was repeatedly plundered by the Burmese, Siamese and Chinese.
The That Luang was destroyed by the Thai invasion in 1828, which left it heavily damaged and abandoned. It was not until 1900 that the French restored to its original design based on the detailed drawings from 1867 by the French architect and explorer Louis Delaporte. However the first attempt to restore it was unsuccessful and it had to be redesigned and then reconstructed in the 1930s. During the Franco-Thai War, That Luang was heavily damaged during a Thai air raid. After the end of World War II, the That Luang was reconstructed
Well this is DC Figs 192, but as the titles implies, we are currently changing a bunch of stuff around the house my “studio” has been relocated haha. Anywho, I guess we have somewhat of a blue theme going on
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Dove: Totally Disney CMF 2’fied her
Question: I knew from the beginning I had to use this torso
Destiny: The Thanos MM torso honestly sucked so I replaced it with a more appropriate print
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you," 1 Peter 1:3-4
The family relocated from a small lake to a bigger lake, walking (waddling) almost 1 mile to their new habitat on Balderton Lake, Nottinghamshire.
The pictures show the female escorting her brood, and the whole family feeding on the water.
All pics courtesy of Pixabay and Unsplash.
NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED DURING THE MAKING OF THIS VIZION AND BY THE TIME YOU SEE THIS THEY WILL ALL BE IN A MUCH SAFER PLACE
Most spiders don't enjoy the indoor climate here very much. It is generally way to dry for them and even though they might be drawn to the warmer temperatures, the low humitidy will kill them (with some exceptions).
The common candy-striped spider (Enoplognatha ovata) like this male are definitely better off outside so when I found him on a wall inside I swiftly relocated him to the garden - and tooka couple of shots of course!
The "candy stripe" part of the name is a reference to the female which is a paler colour with a pinkish-red stripe along the abdomen.
BNSF 5156 heads south on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. (track mark west) with the final CitiRail power move, the D-ALNSTL3 27T, here at Mp. 28 at Machens, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO. near the Anheuser Busch brewery.
Dear reader.
My name is Wren Blossom. I just recently relocated to a charming little home in a neighbourhood called Briarwood. I traveled here on my own to pursue a university education, and in my free time, I'd like to try establishing my very own apothecary store. My grandmother's inability to carry on the family business due to her aged and declining mobility caused the apothecaries in my family to go out of business. It was ultimately decided to sell the shop since my mother had no desire to keep it running and I was just seventeen and inexperienced to manage the business myself at the time. I was fairly familiar with apothecaries, but I had little understanding of how the industry in general worked. The store was established by my nanna's grandparents, but before that, it was a little home business, and people would go to my great-great grandparent's tiny two-bedroom hut to buy apothecaries from them. I wanted the shop to leave a lasting impression rather than damage her standing in the community if I was to fail in carrying on the family business.
Now that I am twenty-one, I decided to move out of the home of my grandparents, where both my mother and I were staying. I ended my two-year job at my local grocery with the earnings I saved there and a little extra my grandma handed me from the shop's sale. She was mindful of my goals, wanted me to succeed, and was proud to see I wanted to revive the family business, even if it was not in our hometown, so she offered her help to me so that I could place a substantial down payment on a property wherever I wanted to call home.
I stumbled upon the right house to call my lifelong home. It wasn't near my hometown, but it wasn't far away either. It took me five hours to drive to town and a 20-minute boat ride to reach the house's little island. It appeared to have a lot of history with boards on the windows, the paint peeling from the walls and the floor rotting away, even though it was a fixer-upper, I was up for the home improvement project. The first few months will be incredibly busy and fulfilling with the three—attending university, improving the house, and eventually starting up the apothecary shop—and I am excited to see who I meet along my journey.
Until my next letter, take care.
A few hours later, we've relocated back to the pass and find the 113 local rolling downhill on track 1 at Walker.
Phelan, CA (Alray)
November 12th, 2020
Today was the last day of big push to my new storage room for all my belongings when I for the next year or so will be living/working in southern France. Now only 3 weeks left in Denmark ...
We followed a caravan through the cattle drive. You can see how orderly they generally were. Barraba, New South Wales.
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, an island toll castle in the middle of the Rhine River, with Burg Gutenfels and the town of Kaub behind.
"The keep of this island castle, a pentagonal tower with its point upstream, was erected 1326 to 1327 by King Ludwig the Bavarian. Around the tower, a defensive hexagonal wall was built between 1338 to 1340. In 1477 Pfalzgrafenstein was passed as deposit to the Count of Katzenelnbogen. Later additions were made in 1607 and 1755, consisting of corner turrets, the gun bastion pointing upstream, and the characteristic baroque tower cap.
The castle functioned as a toll-collecting station that was not to be ignored. It worked in concert with Gutenfels Castle and the fortified town of Kaub on the right side of the river. Due to a dangerous cataract on the river's left, about a kilometer upstream, every vessel would have to use the fairway nearer to the right bank, thus floating downstream between the mighty fortress on the vessel's left and the town and castle on its right. A chain across the river drawn between those two fortifications forced ships to submit, and uncooperative traders could be kept in the dungeon until a ransom was delivered. The dungeon was a wooden float in the well.
Unlike the vast majority of Rhine castles, "the Pfalz" was never conquered or destroyed, withstanding not only wars, but also the natural onslaughts of ice and floods by the river. Its Spartan quarters held about twenty men.
Massive measures of water engineering in the nineteenth century, above all straightening the river for better use as an international waterway and at this particular stretch, clearing it from the old cataract, relocated the regularly used fairway from the river's right arm to its left. Thus the tactical advantage may not be apparent to one unaware of the change in the watercourse. The island of the castle was used for the Rhine crossing by 60,000 Prussian troops under Blücher in the winter of 1814 in his pursuit of Napoleon. The castle was acquired by Prussia in 1866, and toll collections ceased in 1867. It continued to be used as a signal station for the river boat traffic for about another century. In 1946, the castle became property of the State of Rheinland–Pfalz." [Wikipedia]
"Wildflower Sunset at Sunset Crater:" The clouds shifted direction one evening while I was in Flagstaff shooting sunset, and I couldn't resist a last-minute change of plans to relocate myself to try to capture the colors in sky and land while these wildflowers that never last long enough were blooming. I was glad to arrive just in time to capture the sunlight still on the peak of Sunset Crater itself, making it glow a fiery red that to me was just a hint reminiscent of its volcanic past.
for me one of the most impressive cathedrals in Germany, wonderful architecture and two highlights of art: the iconic sculpture of Uta, 13th century, and the altar in the west choir, originally 1519 by Lucas Cranach, the lost middle parts by Michael Triegel, 500 years later.
Naumburg Cathedral (German: Naumburger Dom St. Peter und St. Paul, located in Naumburg, Germany, is the former cathedral of the Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz. The church building, most of which dates back to the 13th century, is a renowned landmark of the German late Romanesque and was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. The west choir with the famous donor portrait statues of the twelve cathedral founders (Stifterfiguren) and the Lettner, works of the Naumburg Master, is one of the most significant early Gothic monuments.
The church was erected with the relocation of the episcopal see from Zeitz in 1028, next to an old parish church. Thus it is the proto-cathedral of the former Catholic Diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz. With the Reformation, Naumburg and its cathedral became Protestant. Naumburg Cathedral remains a Protestant parish church to this day. (source: Wikipedia)
It is a Generation 2 Ford Falcon (North America). It could be a 1964 model or 1965. The grille is for a 1964 model but the tail lights are for 1965.
This one has been customized considerably. The door handles have been replaced and the fuel filler has been relocated from the back presumably into the trunk. The bumpers have been painted to match the car body.
Driver Trainer AV51 is seen on a temporary road built as part of LUAS Tram works, the Luas line now runs thru this road and the traffic runs on a re-constructed road adjacent to this one. AV51 as part of its Driver trainer spec has had its fuel tank relocated to the space where the Stairs was located, a small window is now located where the tank was to enable the instructor to view traffic from a mirror.
My July week holiday with my partner was a return trip to the North Wales Area. It is not meant to be an out and out photo holiday, But I do get the chance to do some photography.
After the first half of the day spent at RSPB South Stack on Anglesey.
I then relocated to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey for the afternoon to photograph Oystercatchers and Terns.The light was still very harsh.
While photographing the Terns from the beach, which is large pebbles, the harsh light and heat played havoc with the focus. Many images taken, but very few were usable.
Cemlyn Bay is home to 3 species of Terns. Common, Arctic and Sandwich.
Sandwich Terns were regularly flying from the sea to the nesting area with fish to feed their young.
Cemlyn Bay hosts the only colony of Sandwich Terns in Wales.
The Sandwich Tern is whitish-grey above and white below, with a large black cap and a shaggy, black crest. It has short, black legs, and a black bill with a yellow tip.
Key West Cemetery was relocated from Higgs Beach to this site in 1847 after being ravaged by a hurricane the previous year.Over 75000 people are interred here in in-ground and crypt style graves,given the closeness to sea level.Some prominent memorials in the cemetery include those to the Battleship Maine Disaster and one honoring those who served in the 1868 Cuban Revolution.Cultural diversity is in prominent display here as sites range from elaborate markers to simple headstones.
A Florida State Historic site...