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This is one of the gorgeous views you have when doing the 'Route du Vignoble' . It's an extremely long walk up to 90 kilometers. We just did a one day walk though taking us about 5 hours and 15 km alongide a magnificent valley.
The Feather River Canyon was a source of pride to the Western Pacific. It's pride was witnessed on the sides of boxcars, it's promotional items and on the side of WP 501.
Taken on a wet, damp and overcast day in Knysna. The wind was blowing gently through the trees so I manage to get a sense of movement in the branches and leaves which I wanted to try achieve in the image.
The spectacled weaver (Ploceus ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found widely in woodland, forest edge and gardens of East, Middle and Southern Africa, but is absent from the most arid regions (such as the Karoo) and dense, primary rainforest.
It is found in open woodland, forest margins, bushy thickets, wooded valleys, along riverine woodland, savanna with sparse trees, and gardens.
It is mainly insectivorous, including crickets, moth caterpillars, beetle larvae; also spiders, centipedes, small crabs; geckos 3 cm long; berries; whole flowers; and nectar. The typical call while feeding is a characteristic descending series of whistles,'tee-tee-tee-tee". #7DWF
Looking south from Southwark towards Elephant & Castle. A train can be seen on the left heading towards Blackfriars station on the busy Thameslink route.
Getting off Route 37 in Novato on Harbor Drive toward Black Point and the Black Point Boat Launch, the bridge that carries Route 37 over the Petaluma River came into view with the light hitting it just right on an otherwise stormy afternoon.
Here's the last one in this little series until next time I visit.
One of the most adorable little museums to be found anywhere is the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum. Located in Buckland, MA across the Deerfield River and up the hill from its namesake town, it operates on trackage in the small former Boston and Maine Yard (beside the active Berkshire and Eastern nee Pan Am Freight Main) and preserves the road's large wooden freight house dating from 1867.
But it owes its existence to its pride and joy, Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway trolley No. 10. Built in 1896 by Wasson Manufacturing company in Springfield for the newly constructed seven mile long rural trolley line connecting its namesake towns. The little line lasted only 30 years and upon its abandonment in 1927 little number 10 was sold to a local farmer who used it as a shed and chicken coop for 65 years. In 1992 his son donated the shell back to the newly formed museum and seven years later she was back in operation.
Here is a view looking west at number 10 running under the wire on about 1000 ft of track in the old rail yard.
If you ever find yourself in Shelburne Falls (and you really should because it's just lovely) stop by the museum and take a little ride yourself. To learn more check out their website here: www.sftm.org/index.shtml
Oh, and I'd be remiss if I wrapped this up without a mention about Shelburne's most famous attraction, The Bridge of Flowers. It is truly a must see and if you're ever traveling west on Route 2 make the short detour into town, it is truly worth it. If you've never heard of it check out this: newengland.com/today/travel/massachusetts/berkshires/brid...
Oh, and as for that bridge, little old number 10 ran over it for the 19 years it was in service providing the Shelburne Falls and Colraine Street Railway a direct freight connection to the Boston and Maine and New Haven (which came to town too until abandoning their route up through Conway in 1923). Between the museum and the bridge this tiny little otherwise unremarkable street railway has left an indelible impact on the community far outlasting its utility as a mere means of transportation.
Buckland, Massachusetts
Saturday August 31, 2025
Crawford's locomotives PHC002 and PHC001 make their debut daylight appearance in the Western Suburbs on train #8590 from Hermidale to Werris Creek taking the 2nd quickest route to the north western railway town via the Blue Mountains and Sydney. It has taken the longer trip through Sydney due to trackwork on the preferred, time saving route.
For Freight Car Friday here's a then and now comparison. This is a look at some articulated double stack well cars entrained on Norfolk Southern train 264 (intermodal Park Manor Yard in Chicago to Ayer, MA) running as train Z264 on CSXT trackage rights seen crossing the ancient double stone arch bridge over the icy Quabog River at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision, the once and forever Boston and Albany Railroad. This is the new routing for this service as described in the previous post and plainly illustrates one of the main reasons why....the ability to double stack containers, something that was precluded from happening on its traditional ex Boston and Maine routing because of restricted clearances inside the 4.75 mile long Hoosac Tunnel.
This train always features dozens of JB Hunt Containers as the Arkansas carrier has a partnership with Norfolk Southern and BNSF and is an anchor customer for this train. JB Hunt is the fourth largest trucking company in the US by revenue an began business in 1961 growing from 5 trucks to a fleet of 13,000. More importantly the company owns the largest fleet of privately owned containers in the US with over 100,000 and plans to grow to 150K!
This commitment to intermodal goes back to company founder Johnnie Bryan Hunt's landmark 1989 deal with then Santa Fe Railroad president Mike Haverty.
You can read more about that here:
www.jbhunt.com/blog/intermodal/35-years-intermodal-innova...
www.jbhunt.com/blog/enterprise/jb-hunt-difference#:~:text...
Mr. Hunt passed away two decades ago but I can't help but imagine he'd be pleased to see this train and the investment made by the railroad in support of their long standing partnership.
Warren, Massachusetts
Friday September 26, 2025
A hike in the park............Wrangell-St.Elias National Park. This shot was taken while navigating through a serac/boulder field on our way to Mt. Bona. May 2004.
Historic Route 66 between Seligman and Peach Springs, Arizona.
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Pan Am Boston based local BO-1 is heading home light engine after run to Peabody to deliver cars to Rousselot which is the very last customer remaining on the north shore and the sole reason this lonely freight train makes its biweekly treks up the old Boston and Maine Eastern Route mainline. This is a sad state of a affairs and a far cry from days of old, but now only crumbling vestiges of trackside industries and legacy names such as Brickyard serve to remind us of once was. But forget all that was lost for a moment and be thankful for this pretty sight we do have as the mysteriously Guilford repainted GP40-2LW 507 rolls south beneath the signal mast here at about MP 10.8 on the Keolis/MBTA mainline.
Lynn, Massachusetts
Tuesday December 29, 2020
Lothian Buses 41 having an unusual spin on Route 61 this morning heading to the West End. 17th September 2018.