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"SingCargo 7297" ready to push off Bay 28R for London-Heathrow {LHR/EGLL} via Singapore-Changi {SIN/WSSS}, with 5 koalas being relocated to the UK being the precious cargo...
It is hard to believe that these two photos are from the same location. The photo from 1980 shows Stratford Low Level station, with a Cravens DMU about to depart for North Woolwich, whilst an 08 heads west with a trip working to Temple Mills yard.
Today, the scene is dramatically altered, and the only common element to both photos is the station platform, now occupied by the Docklands Light Railway. The DLR now takes a slightly different alignment to the original railway, in order to fit in the reversing siding. The property boundary marked by the green fence is also in the same position.
Today, the vantage point that was Stratford Southern signalbox is no longer there, having been relocated to Dereham on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
Human alteration of landforms, relocation of soil for building of infrastructure, and alteration of soil profiles occur even in this remote location. (Photo by Alan Light)
Human-Altered Material
Human-altered material (HAM) is soil parent material (organic or mineral) that has undergone anthroturbation (mixing or disturbance by humans). It differs from HTM in that it generally has been altered in place and contains little or no evidence of being transported from another location. Examples include agricultural soils that have been deeply mixed (e.g., by deep ripping of a root-restrictive subsoil layer such as a duripan) and soils that have been mechanically compacted to impound water (as in a rice paddy with anthric saturation). The concept also includes soils that have been removed, stockpiled, and replaced during reclamation (as in some surface mining or urban development activities) and soil materials that remain exposed after excavation (such as those on the floor of a gravel pit).
Human-altered materials are commonly associated with destructional anthropogenic landforms. These landforms are in areas where soil material has been removed (pits, quarries, mined areas, etc.). In some cases, a destructional landform may be recognized by tracing a subsurface horizon (such as an argillic or spodic horizon) from adjacent non-human altered soils laterally to the point where it disappears abruptly, which corresponds to the boundary of the destructional landform. Destructional anthropogenic landforms are excavated but may later be filled or covered. Where the excavations have been partially or totally filled with the original soil material, the material is considered HAM.
Where they have been filled with different soil material, the material is considered HTM.
Evidence of human-altered material includes:
• Material occurs in an area impacted by the agricultural practices of deep plowing to rip a root-restrictve layer or of intentional compaction to puddle water.
• Material occurs within an excavated area (destructional landform) such as a pit or quarry.
• The soil profile has features such as reoriented pieces of diagnostic horizons; rock fragments that are mechanically abraded; scrape marks underlying soil material that was removed, stockpiled, and replaced on site; or purposely compacted layers formed during construction activities.
CSX B875 climbs the grade west of Bloomington, MD on the Hampshire Sub (WM Thomas Sub). This is on the section of line that was relocated in the 1970's to allow for Bloomington Dam to be built (now named Jennings-Randolf). There is a permanent "look out" restriction on the lower end of the rebuilt line where there is several deep cuts where there is often falling rock. The train is taking empties to Mettiki Mine west of Bayard, WV. September 11, 2003
Providence and Worcester Railroad's Valley Falls based local PR-3 is headed for the Port of Providence with a long string of tank cars for Univar and Shell. But first they have to make a side trip up the old Moshassuck Valley Railroad in Pawtucket with a load of rebar for Nucor/Harris Rebar. To facilitate that first move the gondola is sandwiched between their two units and they'll drop their train on the main up by old Lawn Tower and run up to the end of the line at Higginson Ave. in Lincoln and spot the car then MU their two units and then return light back off the 1.2 mile long branch.
Looking like the proud independent regional I grew up with, PR-3's two units still wear the classic red and brown scheme some eight years after Genesee and Wyoming orange took over. GP38-2s 2006 and 2008 are original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Feb. and Dec. 1980 respectively), and have spent their entire careers working the rails in and out of the Ocean State.
The train is arriving at MP 5 at this one time junction with New Haven's Shoreline main known as 'Boston Switch' five miles north of Providence Union Station. Still standing at right in the background obscured behind the trees and catenary poles is the crumbling tile roofed pagoda style interlocking tower that is 110 years old.
This junction came into being when what is today's Northeast Corridor (just out of sight to the right of the tower) was built as the Boston & Providence in 1847 providing a new direct route into the city from East Jct. near South Attleboro, MA. That pioneering road's original 1835 route traveled to East Providence where passengers and freight were ferried across the Providence River into downtown. From this point to Union Station the nee P&W which also opened in 1847 and thee B&P were operated a joint facility. In 1892 the P&W was leased to the New Haven and a year later the former B&P (by then in the Old Colony fold) joined the growing empire and both routes fell under the aegis of the same company.
In 1914 a massive grade separation and line relocation project in Pawtucket took place. This location was about the eastern limits of the work and according to Edward J. Ozog's phenomenal Railroad's of Rhode Island site:
SS 156 was built to protect the east end of the line relocation. Switches and signals were operated by electricity. The plan of the tower was similar to SS 154 built at the same time at the west end of the relocation but adjusted for its location and orientation. The tower was reduced to short hours when the depression struck and it was closed in 1935 and its duties transferred to Woodlawn Tower. In 1937 the interlocking machine was sent to Bridgeport for use in SS 60. Remarkably some 87 years after the last shift was worked here it still stands guard as a tangible link to the Ocean State's railroading heritage
And even more remarkable is the brick building looming behind the train on Foundry Street. This is the Murdock Webbing company's factory, one of the last textile manufacturers left in the Blackstone Valley where the industrial revolution began in America and where for a century thereafter the textile industry flourished. Makers of mil spec webbing belts and civilian products such as pet harnesses and fall restraints and tie downs, per their company web site:
Our Rhode Island headquarters was originally constructed in 1863, during the American Civil War, and functioned at the time as the U.S. Cotton Mill. In 1936, Frederick Murdock founded Murdock Webbing in the heart of the American Industrial Revolution with only 10 employees and 2 looms. In 1954, Murdock Webbing was purchased by the DeAngelis family, who still currently presides over a thriving company with more than 150 associates in the 285,000 square foot facility.
Central Falls, Rhode Island
Wednesday November 20, 2024
The Spirit of Tasmania will be reolcating to Gelong which is a bit of a shame because she makes a great subject to photograph.
Not that we stole anything. We were moving this historical treasure to another location.
You can also check its 1:1 replica from here : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Galerie%20Gaillard/51/30/152
Under the near unrelenting summer heat, C504 with G513, GM27 and GM22 head into Springhurst as D677v.
2/1/2019
Nitmiluk National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 244 km southeast of Darwin, around a series of gorges on the Katherine River and Edith Falls.
Previously named Katherine Gorge National Park, its northern edge borders Kakadu National Park. The gorges and the surrounding landscape have great ceremonial significance to the local Jawoyn people, who are custodians of Nitmiluk National Park. In Jawoyn, Nitmiluk means "place of the cicada dreaming".
Katherine Gorge, a deep gorge carved through ancient sandstone by the Katherine River, is the central attraction of the park. Katherine Gorge is made up of thirteen gorges, with rapids and falls, and follow the Katherine River, which begins in Kakadu. During the Dry, roughly from April to October, the Katherine Gorge waters are placid in most spots and ideal for swimming and canoeing.
There may be freshwater crocodiles in most parts of the river, as they nest along the banks, but they are harmless to humans. Saltwater crocodiles regularly enter the river during the wet season, when the water levels are very high, and are subsequently removed and returned to the lower levels at the onset of the dry season. Thus, swimming in the wet season is prohibited.
Cruises of various lengths go as far as the fifth gorge.The gorges can be explored by canoe and flat bottomed boat. In the dry season the gorges become separated as the level of the river falls. They are interconnected in the wet. There is a visitor centre located at the Katherine Gorge, about 30 km east of the town of Katherine.
Freshwater crocodiles are widely distributed along the river year-round. During the wet season, rises in water levels may allow saltwater crocodiles to enter the gorge, where they are caught and relocated to lower levels when the dry season begins.
Birds that can be seen include ospreys, red-tailed black cockatoos, great bowerbirds, white-gaped honeyeaters and red-winged parrots. Part of the Yinberrie Hills Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for endangered Gouldian finches, lies in the park
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"Crimson Cliffs Moonrise:" The previous moonrise photo I posted from Sedona was a fairly relaxed experience. This second image that I captured from the same evening was a lot more frantic, as it required me first packing up my gear from my first spot, then rushing to relocate to a different spot a drive and a hike away, then wanting to capture the moon precisely in this notch of rocks known as the Crimson Cliffs. What I did not know was all of the varied terrain involved in trying to acquire the best vantage point to view this transition, including several hillsides to go up and down, and washes to navigate, complete with lots of thorny plants to work through (even with long pants, my upper legs ended up looking like a cat clawed them when I was done), then trying to avoid tall visual obstructions, such as trees in the foreground. All in all, it turned out to be a bit more of a scramble than I had hoped, but I was extremely thankful that just as I was about to give up and turn back, I saw the moon come exactly through the narrow space between the rock pillars and also just in time before the sun completely set, giving the rocks an extreme red glow with that final light of the day. I hope you enjoy.
Hunkering in on a very windy day on a vernal pond near the bay, the Black-necked Stilts occasionally relocated themselves in the crowd.
Garretson Pond, MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA
Part of: "Empty Chair . Van Gogh" and "Forlorn Places - Forsaken Buildings" // Vienna Off the Beaten Path
DMC-G2 - P1650082 - 2013-07-14
This brown chafer (Serica brunnea) had taken a wrong turn somewhere and was crawling around inside my house when my wife found it.
So with the camera in my other hand, I brought it outside into the garden and placed it on a random pink flower for an impromptu photo session and this one came out better than expected.
After photographing six trains from the overlook along the river at Scenic Hudson Park I relocated into the village center for one last simple photo from the inbound platform.
Metro North train 8758 accelerates away from it's station stop on track 4. This is a 7:40 PM out of Croton-Harmon making a 1 hr 3 minute scheduled trip to Grand Central Terminal. The train consists of seven cars (various models of Bombardier 'Shoreliner' coaches of which MN operates 133 in east of Hudson service) shoved by GE P32AC-DM 231 (blt. Sep. 2001), one of four (out of 31 total on the roster) owned by CDOT and dressed in classic 1950s style New Haven Railroad McGinnis era colors.
This is about MP 22.7 as measured from Grand Central Terminl on modern day Metro North's Hudson Line, the former New York Central Railroad water level route which traces its history here back to 1849. In 1913 the NYC installed third rail electrification through here as far as Harmon, 33 miles north, a system that remains to this day.
Across the four mains on the outbound side stands the historic depot built by the NYC in 1889. Designed by H.H. Richardson's successor firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in the Railroad Romanasque style it is a contributing property part of the Irvington Historic District which received federal designation in 2014. Closed as a ticket office in 1957 it has served in assorted non railroad uses over the ensuing decades and today is a lovely little café and coffee shop.
The brick building behind it dates from 1880 and was the home of Lord and Burnham, the largest greenhouse manufacturer in the country. And beyond it is the large neoclassical Trent building designed by Stanford White and built in 1896 as the headquarters of Cosmopolitan Magazine which was published here until 1910 when William Randolph Hearst moved it into New York City.
Today this route is astonishingly busy with over 150 MNCW trains passing this point on weekdays with electric MUs operating as far as Croton-Harmon and diesel powered trains to Poughkeepsie, 73 miles north. In addition another 22 Amtrak trains pass to and from points as far flung as Burlington, VT, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and Chicago. Lastly rounding out the parade is a nightly CSXT road freight between Selkirk Yard near Albany and Oak Point Yard in the Bronx.
Village of Irvington
Town of Greenburgh, New York
Saturday June 21, 2025
Toujours partants pour un petit tour de capsule spatiale ! La journée a commencé avec un tour de piste, à proximité de l’ISS (une soixaine de mètres), pour changer de place de parking (Shane a maintenant sa chambre à l’étage, sur le dessus de l’ISS, plutôt que sur le devant). C’était agréable (et une très sérieuse opération) d’enfiler nos scaphandres et de réaliser toutes les procédures de départ… mais pour mieux revenir, il n’est pas encore temps de rentrer !
A good day to take our spacecraft for a spin! Just a short trip around the block, to re-dock to the zenith Space Station port and free up the forward parking spot for upcoming spacecraft, yes, there’s a lot of traffic up here! It felt good to put on our spacesuits and leave the International Space Station… just for a little while, it’s not time to go home just yet. 😃
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Clover Hill Tavern
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Appomattox County, Virginia
Appomattox County was created in 1845, carved from four other counties (Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, and Prince Edward); the Clover Hill settlement became the county seat and thereafter was known as Appomattox Court House. The main building of Clover Hill Tavern is seen here (the Peers house is in the distance); it and the other three buildings (kitchen, slave quarters, and guest house) are original structures; dating from about 1819; they are the oldest structures in Appomattox Court House. The court house for the new county was built just east of the tavern in 1846; after it burned in 1892, the county seat was relocated to Appomattox Station (now Appomattox) and Appomattox Court House languished for decades, until restored to commemorate the end of the American Civil War, which ended with the April 9, 1865 surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant in the McLean house, a short distance from this tavern. Appomattox Court House National Historical Park was created in 1935 and was among the first-year listing on the National Register of Historic Places when that program began in 1966 (66000827).
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Cuteness overload. Red squirrel (Eurasian squirrel) relocating at least 4 youngsters from one tree to another. First attempt to jump did not work out, so it is climbing down and up with the precious load.
In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.
After meeting 105 at Zephyr, CN 104 gets up to track speed through the curve at Mount Albert. At one time a town served by two railways, today the CN Bala Sub, originally built by the Canadian Northern in 1906, sees all traffic on its transcontinental journey.
The other line, arriving in Mount Albert in 1877, was the narrow gauge Lake Simcoe Junction Railway, a subsidiary of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway. The LSJR was constructed from Stouffville Junction to Jackson's Point on Lake Simcoe via Ballantrae, Mount Albert, and Sutton, eventually crossing the Canadian Northern at Zephyr, just north of Queensville Sideroad. Traffic levels dwindled after the construction of both the CNoR, and the Toronto & York Radial Railway to Sutton (opening 1909), resulting in the abandonment of the Sutton Sub between Zephyr and Stouffville Junction in 1928 (service ending in May, and rails lifted by October). Jackson's Point to Sutton had been abandoned in 1927. Redesignated as the CN Sutton Spur in 1960, service would cease in 1979, with the rails being lifted in 1981. The LSJR passed roughly 1000 feet off to the right of this image.
Some information can be found on the late Charles Cooper's website by clicking here, and further information can be found in his book Narrow Gauge for Us: The Story of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway.
Scenes of Mount Albert station, relocated to Cannington, ON in 1978:
Scenes of CN's Sutton station, relocated to Georgina, ON in the late 70s:
CN Z104
CN 3841, CN 5658
CN Bala Sub
Mount Albert, On.
Cuteness overload. Red squirrel (Eurasian squirrel) relocating at least 4 youngsters from one tree to another. First attempt to jump did not work out, so it is climbing down and up with the precious load.
Lake City is the county seat of Columbia County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 12,046. It is the principal city of the Lake City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is composed of Columbia County, and had a 2010 population of 67,531.
Lake City first began as the town of Alligator in 1821 near the Seminole settlement known as Alligator Village. Alligator became the seat of Columbia County in 1832 when it was formed from Duval and Alachua counties. In 1858 Alligator was incorporated and renamed Lake City. The largest American Civil War battle in Florida took place near here in the Battle of Olustee in 1864; the Confederates won. In 1884 the Florida Agricultural College was established in Lake City as a land grant college; it was relocated to Gainesville in 1905 to form part of the University of Florida. The city's sesquicentennial was held in 2009.
Lake City is known as "The Gateway to Florida" because it is adjacent to the intersection of Interstate 75 and Interstate 10. Lake City is the site of Lake City Gateway Airport, formerly known as NAS Lake City. Florida Gateway College is located in Lake City.
In 1874 Lake City's first newspaper was published in 1874, called the Lake City Reporter. In 1876 the Bigelow Building was completed; it later was adapted for use as the City Hall. In 1891 Lake City became the first city in Florida to have electric lights from a local power and light company.
By the early 20th century, Lake City had become an important railroad junction, served by the Seaboard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Georgia Southern Railroad, and the Florida Railroad. Hotel Blanche was built in 1902 as an attraction for expected tourists. The hotel was Lake City and Columbia County's major hotel and central business center from 1902 to 1955.
Florida Agricultural College was established in 1884 as part of the Morrill Land Grant Act and became a full university with twenty-five instructors in 1904. In 1905 the Florida Agricultural College was moved to Gainesville, becoming part of the University of Florida. Columbia High School constructed a second building in 1906 that was used until 1922. In 1907 Lake City officials leased the former property of the Florida Agricultural College to the Florida Baptist Convention; they founded a Baptist college called Columbia College. Columbia College lasted for ten years until the college became overwhelmed with debt. Columbia College deeded the land and buildings back to Lake City in 1919. During World War I, the campus of Columbia College was used as a training site for local troops for the war. The facility became U.S. Hospital No. 63, the predecessor of the Veterans Hospital constructed in Lake City. More than 34 Lake City soldiers were killed in World War I.
In 1940 the population of Lake City was 5,836. During World War II, a number of institutions were established to help with the war effort as well as those in Lake City. The Lake Shore Hospital was dedicated in 1940 to provide medical care for those in the Lake City area. The Lake City Woman's Club became the United Service Organizations (USO) headquarters to entertain service personnel stationed in Lake City. Naval Air Station Lake City was commissioned in 1942 on the site of the Lake City Flying Club air field. NAS Lake City was a support facility for Naval Air Station Jacksonville and trained pilots to fly the Lockheed Ventura. Military operations at NAS Lake City ended in March 1946, and it was decommissioned as an active naval air station.
After World War II a local air base was converted for use in 1947 as the Columbia Forestry School. The Columbia Forestry School had low enrollments and funds, forcing the school to seek help from the Florida legislature. The University of Florida assumed management of the school, and in 1950 it became the University of Florida Forest Ranger School. As part of the network of community colleges established in Florida, the school became the Lake City Junior College and Forest Ranger School in 1962. Lake City Junior College was renamed to Lake City Community College in 1970; in 2010 it was renamed as Florida Gateway College.
By 1950, the population of Lake City was 7,467. The forestry products industry (turpentine, lumber, and pulpwood) had become a mainstay of the local economy.
During the Korean War, five Lake City soldiers were killed. A monument was dedicated in 1985 in honor of the five killed in the war. In 1958, the Columbia Amateur Radio Society was formed. This was a group of amateur radio operators who enjoyed the ability to communicate all over the world. This radio club still exists today. Lake City's centennial was celebrated in 1959 with parades, fireworks and a 58-page book documenting one hundred years of progress, A Century in the Sun. The citizens of the town dressed in period attire, complete with whiskers. A good-natured clash arose between the men with additional facial hair and the women who did not like it.
In 1963 Interstate 75 and Interstate 10 were opened, intersecting at Lake City. In the 1960s Columbia County schools were not desegregated but black students were free to enroll in any all-white school if room was available. In 1970 a judge ordered all Columbia County public schools to integrate. During the Vietnam War, 23 local Lake City soldiers were either killed or M.I.A.
In 1978 the Columbia County Public Library was established. Downtown Lake City was revitalized in the 1990s with new businesses, shops and restaurants. In 2000 Lake City had a population of 9,980.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
So I don't know what gets into me sometimes but I ended up with this conservative plaid suit and well....thought what better place to hide until the trial, than as a quiet librarian!...lol
Now relocated to an undisclosed site. Don't ask where as I won't tell. This is a very rare duck now with less than 10 wild in the UK now - see earlier post for details of why there are so few.
Rode around with a friend this past Saturday trying to get a few captures for his website.
I plowed snow myself for 4 years, so it's nice at this point to be able to enjoy a snow storm for it's beauty instead of burning myself out.
Changement de port d'amarrage hier pour le Soyouz d'Oleg, Mark et Piotr. Il s’est désamarré du module MRM1, est allé faire un tour à l'avant de la Station spatiale pour prendre quelques photos puis est revenu s'amarrer au module MLM dont ce fut le tout premier docking !
Soyuz port relocation! Oleg, Pyotr and Mark undocked from MRM1, went Station forward to take some pictures, came back Station aft to dock with MLM. First docking with MLM ever!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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After Danny and I relocated to Waterloo, Ontario, in 2015, it took me more than two years to appreciate the incredible green space next to our home -- even though "green space" was one of my requirements when chose this home. Here is the view from our back fence and my office window.
I went through a major depression in 2016. I did little photography that year, but this photo is a portent of my love affair with this woods, which began earnestly in the fall of 2017. Sometimes we have to go through darkness to reach a better place. I'm grateful for many people and things -- this beautfiul urban park among them -- for helping me find solid ground I'd sought for many years.
Healing is a lifelong journey. Practically every morning you will see me roam down that bicycle path with my camera or phone, cross the bridge and disappear into the woods.
I'm sorting old photos and posting some interesting ones. This image was uploaded to Flickr on Feb. 10, 2020.
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