There was a lot of rumbling a few hours ago, but so far no rain or lightening.

During our rumbling stumbling whirlwind tour of the PNW's coast I accidentally found one of my must have ops.

This ship ran aground in 1906 in it's haste to pick up fresh cargo in Portland Oregon, it was due to be retired soon due to the fact that it was too old to be refurbished with steel, instead it was scrapped where she lay except the bow which was left mostly intact here on the beach. I'm afraid it won't be there much longer, there isn't much left of the lean four master.

I haven't even processed the other twenty some odd shots, but I couldn't stop staring at this one so I guess it's good enough for now. :-)

Blow it up and step inside, it's way cool.

(the map location is approximate, there are signs in the park pointing the way.)

Lighting up the sky and rumbling through the night, a storm of great might--warm and cold air oscillated across the beach.

Rumbling Kern - Howick.

We were so lucky to see the impressive weather front arrive and still have time to walk back to the car. It's a pity you can't hear the rumbling thunder or see the sheet lightning.

Week 24.

This was the start of the gorge, it was very narrow and very steep from here.

A little orton.

Rumbling down the Shippensburg Secondary, Norfolk Southern train H59 is headed past Sunday's Mill outside Carlisle. A former railroad customer, the active mill is all truck now and trains keep rolling on to Carlisle. Agricultural customers on this end of the old Cumberland Valley Branch have been replaced with warehousing and manufacturing.

All's well at the midnight hour

You're ready to fly

Don't think about the darkness

Or the rumbling in the sky

Somewhere on the morning road

Just waiting for you

Somethings that just could never be

Are calling up a spell so you can see, yeah

Dream evil

The dark that you find

In the back of your mind

Dream evil, dream evil

Don't go to the edge of rainbows

Don't close your eyes

Like things that can't be real

The truth is really lies

Don't wish on a rising star

You should open up the door

Where things that just should never be

Are calling up a spell so you can see, yeah

Dream evil

The dark that you find

Can come out of your mind

Dream evil take you away

Oh, no, it's the midnight hour

Don't leave me alone

Those things that just should never be

Are calling up a spell so you can see

Dream evil

Dream evil

Dream evil

Dream evil

Dream evil

Oh, no, it's the midnight hour

Don't open the door

Don't go to the edge of rainbows

Don't sleep any more

You'll dream evil

You'll dream evil

You'll dream evil

Dream evil

Dio - Dream Evil

Paducah and Louisville LG3 rumbling south through Rineyville with a 6-Pack of Geeps.

As I heard the 37 rumbling towards me I noticed I didn't have my battery in my camera so I quickly sorted it out before 37116 came thrashing by.

Colas Rail 37116 is pictured as it heads towards Rectory Junction working 0D35 from Derby R.T.C to Rectory Junction.

The first rumblings of a new little project

CN 2644 and BC Rail 4654 lead K420 back North through a now mostly quiet Folkston.

UP's hotshot from Joliet, IL to Mesquite, TX races through the western Illinois countryside and down the Chester Subdivision. While rebuilt, the former AC6000CW was a nice leader in my book seeing as CSX disposed of theirs...

Runs into the River Devon, Rumbling Bridge, Scotland

Crater Lake, Mt. Thielsen in the background, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

This day was a weird one. My husband and I were on our way back from an unplanned side-trip to Eugene (I had fallen into some water the day before, killing my camera, and I refused to go my vacation without one), and when we got back to our cabin it was 92 degress; too hot and muggy for hiking, so we ate and cooled off in the AC of our unit for a bit. I did want to see the lake this day and hang around for sunset, so at around 4 we set out, and just 10 miles down the road the sky grew dark, it dropped almost 30 degrees in temperature, and we looked out and saw patches of white from a leftover hail storm, and a torrent of rain slowed us to a crawl on the highway. A small tree (maybe 4-5 inches in trunk diameter) had fallen across the road, and the driver in front of us, towing a trailer no less, drove over it so we did the same as we continued toward Crater Lake. We passed a work crew that was clearing debris from another fallen tree, and after about another 5 minutes we were free from the pocket of freakish weather.

We drove the rim road and pulled over about a million times, all the while the sky was overcast, we constantly heard thunder rumbling, and every now and then there was some rain. Not the most ideal of views, but definitely an experience that we enjoyed.

We got to see some fabulous sunset colors, something I honestly wasn't expecting what with all the clouds, as we were exiting the park. On our way back, we saw lighting light up the sky what seemed like every 1-2 minutes, and again we hit a pocket of torrential rain that made it feel like we were driving through a waterfall. I was so glad when we finally pulled up to our cabin again. Weather can be so crazy!

The next day we woke up early for the sunrise at the lake, and the sky was hazy with smoke from a nearby forest fire caused by one of many lightning strikes.

Union Pacific's South City Switcher rumbles down Rankin Street after several trucks hurried out of their way. This local is the last freight job to run to San Francisco, and generally does not run to Pier 96 more than twice a week, though they are on duty every day. On September 8th, five GP's were needed to bring a heavy mud train up the grade to Caltrain. Also take note of the disgruntled clown advancing towards my camera to investigate why someone would take pictures on a public road.

Loaded coal rumbling across the Shafter Subdivision.

Rumbling along the fast lines, 66727 Maritime One leads 3J01 Kings Norton On Track Plant to Kings Norton On Track Plant.

River Devon at Rumbling Bridge, Kinross, Scotland

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My girl Brüni loves to sit outside in a dry place during thunderstorms. She seems to have a Zen moment each time she watches the rain coming down hard and hears the thunder rumbling. In a way, she finds harmony in disharmony.

Union Pacific's YSP35 Job is rumbling towards the belt yard in St. Paul. They were the perfect amount late this morning to allow for a sunny shot from the bluff.

Another from today,this is looking south towards the bathing house near rumbling kern,which is just visible throught the fog.A small crab boat was out in the fog checking his pots.You can just see a red light on the horizon giving away his position.

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“I’ll wipe them out. Every last one of them.”

A taste of what is to come

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Aurora in the Neighbourhood

So as with every time aurora comes around, we get a lot of posting and rumbling on social media about how fake the resulting photographs are and how over edited they seem. Of course...you will find plenty of oversaturated images just like you will find with any genre of photography and part of that comes down to personal taste.

However.

If you are not seeing the colours with the storms we have had recently in Scotland (ps you need to be out when it is most active - activity constantly wanes and rises)...you either have really poor eyesight (admittedly, an uncontrollable factor in the aurora seeing equation)....and probably (the larger part of the equation), poorly night adapted eyes. Or perhaps one or the other. It takes the average 'set' forty five minutes in darkness with no lights other than starlight hitting the back of our retinas before the cells that interpret colour become most active. You might have heard about these photoreceptors in our retinas; known as rods and cones. In low light, it is the rod cells that generally give us the bulk of our vision, they immediately work hardest to let us see in the dark - but they are very poor at detecting and relaying colour information to the brain. Ever noticed how when you awake from sleep at night, that you basically see in black and white (and also a very noisy image)? This is why. Give it time, the cones become active but they are slow to awaken as they work more in higher light levels. Again, the rough time for the average eye balls is around forty five minutes in darkness. Their sensitivity goes instantly when light from artificial sources enters the eye again - for example, phones, torches, streetlights, etc.

If you have dark adapted eyes, you will see colour even with more gentle aurora activity...I promise you. I dislike posts such as I have seen the last few days for a few reasons because it implies the camera lies and our eyes are the only real test. It also implies that I am some how trying to decieve the viewership here; which of course is never my intention. Can these people posting this now see gamma rays too? Because if you take your eyes as the ultimate test they detect less than 0.05% of the electromagnetic spectrum. The camera is, instantly a great deal better at seeing than your eyes - but please give your eyes a fighting chance and don't dismiss our ability to see such things. If you understand this; you won't be disappointed at all. Let's not waste time discussing over edited pictures. We know that exists and always will, but let us not decry that you will be disappointed when aurora hunting because you saw someone post some over edited pictures.

This image, taken in the local neighbourhood shows the very 'visible to eye' Aurora on Sunday night in Scotland which was incredible. So strange to see the mystical Northern Lights over the local neighbour hood like I reside in a much more northernly latitude than I do. The previously shared picture is a better location of course, but this is stronger green colour, without the red pillars above it, previously shown. As you can see I continued to shoot some deep sky images (more coming soon if it all works out) whilst using another camera to capture the lights before leaving for the night.

I hope this has been informative! Lastly, since the moon is becoming ever larger, the chances drop of seeing or making a good picture. Though, cloud always has the final say in what we can see.

Thanks for reading,

Steve

Rumbling through the Trent Valley, 60028 passes Hademore with 6M89 Middleton Towers to Ravenhead Sidings.

Howick Bathing House built by the 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845 Prime Minister 1830-34) for his family. We spent a fabulous couple of hours down at the wonderful named Rumbling Kern waiting for the tide to come in. Would love to be here one morning for sunrise what a stunning location it is.

and just chilly enough to want the wood stove rumbling...

Orta San Giulio

Lago d Orta

Piemonte

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Tryin' to Get to Heaven

The air is getting hotter

There's a rumbling in the skies

I've been wading through the high muddy water

With the heat rising in my eyes

Every day your memory grows dimmer

It doesn't haunt me like it did before

I've been walking through the middle of nowhere

Trying to get to heaven before they close the door

When I was in Missouri

They would not let me be

I had to leave there in a hurry

I only saw what they let me see

You broke a heart that loved you

Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore

I've been walking that lonesome valley

Trying to get to heaven before they close the door

People on the platforms

Waiting for the trains

I can hear their hearts a-beatin'

Like pendulums swinging on chains

When you think that you lost everything

You find out you can always lose a little more

I'm just going down the road feeling bad

Trying to get to heaven before they close the door

I'm going down the river

Down to New Orleans

They tell me everything is gonna be all right

But I don't know what "all right" even means

I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane

Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore

I been all around the world, boys

Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door

Gonna sleep down in the parlor

And relive my dreams

I'll close my eyes and I wonder

If everything is as hollow as it seems

Some trains don't pull no gamblers

No midnight ramblers, like they did before

I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down

Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door

(Bob Dylan)

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www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/the-hermitage

This varied walk is a real Perthshire classic. It begins through the beautiful wooded glen of the Hermitage, complete with picturesque follies and attractive waterfalls. The route then continues to visit the dramatic Rumbling Bridge before a return through more open countryside with attractive views. The Hermitage is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

TERRAIN

Clear waymarked paths, tracks and minor roads.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Buses and trains to Dunkeld, 2km from start of walk.

START

The Hermitage car park off the A9 (charge)

Walk Description

STAGE 1

The walk begins at the Hermitage car park (NTS, parking charge), where there is a seasonal cafe kiosk but no toilets. Begin from the lower part of the car park on the signed path beside the River Braan. Walk through the underpass under the railway and continue along the river bank, joining another path coming in from the right. Eventually the path forks; take the left fork. This soon leads to where a picturesque bridge (with a tunnel beneath) spans the river, overlooking a waterfall. Just to the right is Ossian's Hall - a folly built as the centre piece of The Hermitage, which was created as a wild garden by the son in law of the second Duke of Atholl.

STAGE 2

You can enter the hall which has two chambers and a viewing terrace overlooking the spectacular falls on the River Braan. The building helped to create drama for visitors by revealing the falls only at the last moment, which was considered to increase the effect. From the hall continue on the main path through the woods heading upstream above the Braan - ignoring a branch off to the right.

STAGE 3

Soon you reach Ossian's cave, part of the Hermitage. Keep straight on where a track comes in from the right and a minor path goes left, continuing until another cross-paths with a wall ahead - turn left here, signed for Braan Path to Rumbling Bridge.

STAGE 4

The path leads aross a footbridge through a gate, continuing across open grazing land. Eventually a kissing gate leads out onto a minor road. Turn left downhill along the road, soon reaching and crossing the Rumbling Bridge, an old stone bridge high above a dramatic gorge, with waterfalls below.

STAGE 5

After crossing the bridge continuing briefly along the road before taking a path off to the left - marked with a wooden marker post with a green arrow. The path climbs gently through the trees; there is a viewpoint off to the left at one point, and further on a second viewpoint with a bench and good views back of the Rumbling Bridge. The path continues through pleasant native woodland. When the path emerges at a road go straight across and continue along the track opposite.

STAGE 6

As the track heads uphill, turn left at a junction (signpost 'Braan Walk') and follow the grassy track straight ahead when the main train heads into the garden of the house at Tomgarrow. The track eventually heads to a gate and stile leading into a pine and birchwood. Just before you reach another house fork right onto a footpath which passes the house and then crosses a small bridge and through another gate to enter Ladywell plantation. Turn left at the forest track, still following the signs. Keep on the main track ignoring another track to the right. This passes descends through forestry until it reaches another track where you turn sharp left to complete the descent and emerge on a road.

STAGE 7

Cross the road and descend through the trees to reach a minor road, opposite the Inver car park. Turn right along this road until a junction, then take a left turn to follow the road across Inver Bridge over the River Braan. The road now continues through the hamlet of Inver, with attractive cottages and a large old whitewashed house. At the end it becomes a footpath and leads up to come alongside the busy A9. It continues beside the A9 before emerging at the entrance to the Hermitage car park and the start of the walk.

Autumn in the gorge at Rumbling Bridge.

Floki has wrestled with Olaf several times and is always so gentle with him. They’re adorable together!

Taken from a lovely Bridge in the countryside

"Ouija Board, Ouija Board"

Ouija board

would you work for me?

I have got to say Hello

to an old friend

Ouija board, ouija board

would you work for me?

I have got to get through

to a good friend

She has now gone

from this Unhappy Planet

with all the carnivores

and the destructors on it

ouija board, ouija board

would you help me

because I still do feel

so horribly lonely

would you, ouija board

would you, ouija board

would you help me

because I just can't find

my place in this world

she has now gone

from this Unhappy Planet

with all the carnivores

and the destructors on it

Oh hear my voice ("hear my voice")

oh hear my voice ("hear my voice")

The table is rumbling...

the table is rumbling

the glass is moving

"No, I was NOT pushing that time"

it spells S.T.E.V.E.N.

the table is rumbling

the glass is moving

"no, I was NOT pushing that time":

P.U.S.H.O. double F.

P2515 & P2504 are seen here with loaded 7k54 seen here rumbling through Wattleup

The trip to Deseret this summer started off the way any trip based out of central Illinois should: with a RoadRailer. Of course, nearly two months on, we can't get this again, but that just makes this trip all the more memorable. NS4814 is putting in the work on NS 255 as it leads its healthy string of trailers through Rumple.

We had timed things rather well, as we came down here probably just fifteen minutes ahead of the train and pulled up to the crossing here to find the NS 256, the opposing RoadRailer, sitting there waiting for the 255, but juuust out of place for a good shot with both trains in it. Still, a telesmashed Triple Crown with some codeline is alright with me. Things were certainly going well on day one of the trip, but there certainly was a bittersweet undertone to our photos of the RoadRailer as less than two weeks later, this train would run for its last time. Still, in the moment, things were very good.

Heber Valley Railroad, Heber City, Utah

Northumberland

Explored 13 April 2017

Footbridge over rumbling Supin river near village Osla, Uttarakhand

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NG/G16 No. 87 slopes downhill through the Aberglaslyn Pass above the Afon Glaslyn, roaring as it carries the night's rain down from the mountains. 87 is heading towards Beddgelert with the day's first train from Porthmadog for Caernarfon.

… rumbling weather at BN-port. raw-composite made up of a longexposure (river and shore) and the sky. … all shot on iphone 12pro, with leofoto legs