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ATSF C40-8W 869 spending its final days in the salt filled environment of Galveston awaiting its fate.
Night view of Caprotti valve gear fitted British Railways Standard Class 5MT 73129 on the approach to Swanwick Junction station, Midland Railway Centre. Seen during a 30742 Charters photographic event, the locomotive was shortly afterwards retired for an overhaul.
A retired trio of former BN 1994 built first production SD70MACs are at Bessemer, Alabama waiting for the ferry move to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive on a dreary April 18, 2020 morning. This group of MACs last operated in late 2014.
Seen from the deck of a retired highway bridge in Fort Gibson, OK, a northbound Union Pacific manifest train heads across the Grand River on a sunny Friday, November 29, 2024 afternoon. The lead unit, C44ACM number 5639, was just repainted into the current UP livery at Jenks Shop in North Little Rock before being put on point to take this train north. Shot on Kodak Ektachrome 100 film using a Nikon FM and a 20mm lens.
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
Helimar - Helicópteros del Mare Nostrum
LECU, Cuatro Vientos, Madrid, Spain
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We spent the last 2 nights of our road trip in Pincher Creek Alberta. This southern town is in the heart of the Alberta foothills, and is definitely cowboy country. We were driving south toward Waterton Lakes National Park, and came across these old wagons. They looked right at home on the open planes with the rocky mountains in the background.
Two steam engines in a former textile factory. There wasn't much inventory left there, which makes it even more astonishing how well the two steam engines were preserved. Demolition was under discussion a few years ago and I don't know whether the buildings and steam engines are still standing today.
One of the 40, 41 CHSS-2 Sea Kings purchased by the Royal Canadian Navy during the 1960's. This is one of the last, now on display at a local military museum.
The wharf in Coupeville Washington was built in 1905 to export grain produced on Whidbey Island. The town sits on Penn Cove, a sheltered bay that provided a safe, sheltered harbor during the early settlement of the area. In 1792 Capt. George Vancouver named the harbor in honor of, as he wrote, “a particular friend.” It is thought that the person honored was either John or Richard Penn, both of whom were grandsons of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
Before European settlement, 3 permanent villages inhabited by the Lower Skagit People were located around Penn Cove. The largest village called at bəc̓adᶻali, or “snake place" occupied the site of present day town of Coupeville.
Cmdr. Charles Wilkes of the US Navy charted the small bay in 1841. Wilkes was the American born great nephew of the former Lord Mayor of London John Wilkes. He led US Expeditions to the South Pacific (including Antarctica) and Puget Sound. He was an important and controversial naval leader during the Civil War and ended his career with the rank of Rear Admiral (retired).
In 1850 Issac Neff Ebey became one of the first non-native American settlers and farmers in the area. Others soon followed and made land claims as provided by the Donation Land Act of 1850. Also, in 1850 Captain Thomas Coupe laid out a town on the shores of Penn Cove which today bears his name, Coupeville. It became the center of commerce for the Island, an important port, and during the late 1800s, home to many active and retired sea captains and mariners.
The wharf is a contributing property to the Central Whidbey Island Historic District which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. To better protect the unique history and landscape, Coupeville and its wharf was included in Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve in 1978. This one-of-a-kind unit of the National Park System preserves and protects the historical record of the exploration and settlement of central Whidbey Island from 19th century to the present.
References:
www.nps.gov/ebla/learn/historyculture/index.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebey%27s_Landing_National_Historica...
www.ebeysreserve.com/learn-about-the-reserve
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_N._Ebey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville,_Washington
npshistory.com/publications/ebla/nr-cent-whidbey-is-hd.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupeville_grain_wharf
Kaskaskia Island, Illinois
Photo taken on March 5, 2023
Once the brain center of a train. It was an office, a dinning room, an observation platform, and provided lodging for the train crew. A small kitchen for makes meals, a meeting place for the crew. Communication Central. Now unneeded and left to rust in a vacant in lot small town America where the past is not so easy forgotten.
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An old unused Anchor now used as a display item at the Geo Slipway. The Beach and sea looked beautiful in the sunshine today..
Boeing 737-232/Adv(F) (cn 23093/1024) Departing ANC off runway 33.
After 21 years flying passengers foe Delta Air Lines it was converted to a freighter and served with Northern Air Cargo for 12 years before being retired and sold to Kaycee Aerospace in February, 2019.
Just could not warm up to the sky in the old version, so went back and gave it another try, with a little change to the composition, I think this is a much better version. What do you think?
Bowling balls found in a garden near my home in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Taken with my iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Old derelict open wooden fishing boat with in-board engine, left to decompose above the tide line on the Brue Estuary, Highbridge UK Rolleiflex 3.5f, Fomapan 200, Perceptol
Something that may exist elsewhere, but I have only observed in the rural southern United States is the use of old farm equipment used as roadside lawn ornaments, planters , etc, etc, This old tractor is being used as a roadside flag holder.
An RF-4C on static display on Edward Air Force Base, shot just minutes before the sun dipped below the horizon.
Old Massey Harris tractor, now a garden ornament in Langley, B.C. The model 444 was manufactured between 1956 and 1958
When I first opened my eyes this morning this is what I saw...ur welcome. The b/g is a tapestry over the window in my apartment. I figured you would think I was shooting from an exotic location lol. Anyway I'm for the most part retiring my DSLR's. My beat-up & battered Pentax K5 I will continue to use for shooting the sun and moon from my balcony, but not in the field because it's heavy and like I said beat up, also it isn't good for low light video which is mostly what I shoot now days. Here it's on a Monfrotto tripod with a film era 500mm long lens (not telephoto) that I bought on ebay 10 years ago for $25. It takes great stills if you have good light & or a tripod...but it's a wooping 15" long! I really loved my newer Pentax KP, it was smaller & light & was fabulous with low light video but It went belly up after only 2 years and they wanted over $600 to repair it! About that time ( about 3 months ago) I bought my 1st ever #iphone, the #iphone14promax It takes beautiful pictures and video and for now will be my main shooter, and I will most likely upgrade to the #iphone15promax