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Great White Egret, Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
I really don't understand why they always have to run from me...
Truth be told, Lola was running after a fish, which she also got. But by that point I really only could see her backside. ;-)
View running Lola large on white.
How this shot made it into Explore is beyond me, but thanks anyway. :-)
Explore/Interestingness: #238 on Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Glowering clouds in Glen Etive.
The horse was posed perfectly between the two bushes in the middle distance, striking a majestic pose with the wind blowing it's mane and tail perfectly. It waited quite patiently, watching me set up the tripod and camera and just as I was about take the shot it walked off. I managed to fire this 'quickie' before it disappeared behind a hedge.
It's F unit Friday so here is another from this fabulous late fall day in the north country following the 470 Railroad Club's annual photo special on the Conway Scenic Railroad. As in years past the train departed North Conway at 9 AM for a six mile run down the ex Boston and Maine Conway Branch to end of track where the power was run around. Then they returned north seven miles to Intervale where they entered the former Maine Central Mountain Subdivision for a 28 mile run west to Fabyans.
As always the club showcased their historic ex B&M F7s but this year they were joined by a special addition in the form of spectacularly restored GP9 1741 resplendent in its as delivered McGinnis 'bluebird' livery. Built in July 1957 as part of a 50 unit order that included trade in credit to EMD on the pioneering fleet of FT A-B locomotives this unit passed to Guilford and later became Springfield Terminal 72. One of the last three in service it was sold to the Heber Valley Railroad in 2017 along with her two heritage painted sisters. While they moved west to new careers this unit lanquished at Waterville where I saw her in 2020: flic.kr/p/2j8F2Jk not long after she was purchased by the 470 Club and in May 2021 made the trip to North Conway where restoration work began in earnest. To read a bit more and see a pic of her in B&M days check out this article.
railfan.com/historical-group-saves-boston-maine-gp9/
As for her older siblings, the Fs are original Boston and Maine locomotives wearing their as delivered EMD designed scheme. 4266 was built in Mar. 1949 and was acquired for preservation in 1981 off the Billerica deadline. Restored a couple years later, she has called North Conway home ever since and has been operational off and on for the past four decades.
4268 was built in Oct. 1949 and ran for the very first time in almost a half century just earlier this year. I'm not sure when her last run was, but I can find no photos of her in service after about July 1974. She languished for a decade behind the Billerica shops after being stripped of all major components including prime mover, main generator and traction motors. In 1986 she finally left Billerica by truck after being acquired by George Feuderer who displayed her in a field in East Swanzey, NH until acquired by the 470 Club and trucked to North Conway in October of 1991.
She received a cosmetic restoration in 1993 and had been prominently displayed at the Conway Scenic in the company of her operational sibling ever since. After years of planning, the club began restoration in earnest in 2018 with the full support of the railroad and its shop using ex New Hampshire Northcoast GP9 1751 (ex PRR) as a major parts donor for the four year long restoration project.
The following additional information is courtesy of Carl Byron:
The 4268A was actually built in March, 1949 as Engineering Test Dept Locomotive #930. Used for high altitude component testing on the DRGW's Soldier Summit among other locations. It spent some of that summer masquerading as a CB&Q locomotive leading their passenger car display at the 1949 Chicago World's Fair. It was then was cleaned up, re-engined, and made into to a standard F7A and offered for sale at a slightly used demo price. The B&M bought it and it was renumbered and painted into the B&M livery and shipped east, so while the builders plate may well say 10/49 but it certainly had a prior interesting career.
The trio are seen here just west of MP 89 on the Mountain Sub as they run around their train thru the weedy siding behind the former Maine Central passenger station. Boston and Maine power is no stranger to Fabyan and in fact the B&M once had it's own branchline passing through to the Cog Railway base station. Even long after that was abandoned the B&M retained trackage rights over the MEC to this point. Furthermore B&M power often pooled with the MEC during the decades of joint ownership, as seen in this image of a Maine Central train westbound taken from the opposite end of the station: www.nashuacitystation.org/resource/9304011160/ As for the station itself, I'm not sure exactly when it was built, but I believe it was around 1910. The last scheduled passenger train called in 1958 and today it is nicely restored and open as a restaurant.
Fabyans
Town of Carroll, New Hampshire
Saturday November 2, 2024
je m'entraine au filé sur le périphérique parisien, se dimanche soir remplie de voiture, plus de lumière, je suis tombé a F/2 pour une vitesse bloqué au 1/80s, un terrible bruit rugit du tunnel, et là magie de la main/oeil innocent(e), une voiture de collection et les six voie libres..
They call me the breeze
I keep rollin' down the road
They call me the breeze
I keep rollin' then I'm gone
I ain't gotten me nobody
I ain't carryin me no load
You better run run run run run run run run now babe
Spiritualized: youtu.be/b0N8Lsz1udQ
Yes!!! I edited a picture I took today!!! I take pictures everyday but I am sooooo far behind editing.. I will catch soon!!! I promise!!
I literally had about 10 minutes to take a picture after a meeting I just got out of and the sunset was soooo beautiful right outside so I setup my camera in the middle of the road and bam!
Salomon Run Barcelona is a footrace around the Montjuïc hill, through stairs, parks, streets and emblematic spots of Barcelona. The track will be 10km and 180m of positive slope with stairs, dirt sections, sections of asphalt and sidewalks with some stretches of steep slopes both upstream and downstream. The race should be done running but it is allowed to walk in the toughest sections.