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Another test of my new ZWO Duo Band Filter. Just 3 minute subs. Brings out some interesting detail. Come January, I'll learn to put this all together properly using regular data.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm Zenithstar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Filter: ZWO Duo Band (HA & OIII)
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 25*3 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 25*3 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, Photmatix Pro HDR and Topaz Denoise AI
On a slow day in May, the kids and I caught this TRRA 104 job pulling 18 coke loads out of the Eastern Connection on the north end of Madison Yard. They would pull "up the hill" through the SH interlocking then shove back down towards the Freight Mains north of SH. They would spend more time building a unit coke train for US Steel in Gary, IN via BNSF & CN. The 104 Job is using the current TRRA slug set 3007/307. Seems like TRRA has had many on and off tests with slugs. I haven't heard how these are working out.
05-20-2018
New photo shot yesterday on the beach to the Kentish Plover running for food with fellow Grey Plover in the background..
It was fruitful day full of nice photos to be published soon!
The Kentish plover is a small wader in the plover bird family. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. (Wikipedia)
Scientific name: Charadrius alexandrinus
Higher classification: Charadrius
Rank: Species
After dropping off their train at Kelim for the Loveland Job, the Windsor Transfer Job runs back lite down Oklahoma Hill just outside of Windsor, Colorado.
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you can see how many seeps come out of the ground around here, by the amount of liquid (fresh) water still running, despite temps between -7 to -12, and even the salt water in the fjord is freezing over in places...
.........it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
I am putting these legs to work again and I am in training to run the Nike Half Marathon in San Francisco in October 2008;) Yet again I am training with the Team in Training Leukaemia and Lymphoma Society, but this marathon has a bigger meaning for me. At just after midnight on Friday 21st August, Travis Wallace, a former team mate and honoree of team in training lost his fight against Leukeamia at the young age of 32. Travis had been fighting this disease for many years and had gone into remission for almost 9 years, but in March of this year the cancer returned. He fought strong and hard again this time and spent most of the last few months in the hospital, this was made harder still by the fact that he was missing watching his newly born baby girl grow, she is now only 6 months old. As a Team we are now not only mourning the loss of Travis but celebrating the life of a great man, who did his part, while in remission, in running marathons to raise money to find a cure for blood cancers. I will be running this Marathon in honor of Travis Wallace;)
If you would like to make a dontation to the Leaukeamia and Lymphoma Society, and sponsor me running a half marathon to find a cure for blood cancers, you can do so by following this link to my fund raising website:
pages.teamintraining.org/sj/nikesf08/bdas
Cancer sucks so lets find a cure!!
Before her cheer group took center stage in front of the grand stands at the Western Days Parade in 2021
In this case it's more like walking the snow geese, goose poop gaunlet. You can never get through unscathed.
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Aurizon unit 2310D leads another 2300D away from Grandchester after a crew change bound for the mines out west.
Just a wider take on this scene cause it's so cool!
There isn't much left on my bucket list to shoot in my home state (Rhode Island is pretty small after all!) but this was the big one that had eluded me. While I did shoot a train here back in the 1990s before I left for two decades after school, I had yet to photograph anything in the six years since I'd been back. But this day, thanks to some intel I knew that Providence and Worcester's Valley Falls based local PR-3 had a car for Safety-Kleen in their consist so most likely were going to head out here. I followed them out the Harbor Junction to the port but once they wrapped up their work their they rearranged their power with their two locos bracketing the one car so I knew they were going!
This is the Warwick Industrial Track which to quote Daria Phoebe Brashear:
"began life connecting the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, now generally known as the Amtrak main between Providence and the Connecticut shoreline, with the former Warwick Railroad, a lightly constructed line that started with steam dummies before being converted to electric trolleys, and which was gradually extended to Oakland Beach and then, via trestles across the inlets, around to Buttonwoods.
The urban and suburban trolley operations around Providence were consolidated under the same ownership as the New Haven under the auspices of the Rhode Island Company, with the mainline connection and a short portion of the original Warwick RailROAD surviving past the end of streetcar operations to service industrial customers in Cranston and Warwick as newly-incorporated Warwick RailWAY, although encroaching residental development kept service from actually being meaningfully offered past the Alrose Chemical plant, later Geigy, where the line crossed the Pawtuxet River.
After the chemical plant closed in the 1980s, the line ended up going fallow before being resurrected for new customer Safety-Kleen Systems circa 2015. The backyard trackage now services only them, in the building which formerly housed Atlantic Tubing and Rubber on Cranston's Mill Street."
PW GP38-2s 2006 and 2008 which were built new for the then only 7 year newly independent road by EMD in Feb. and Dec. 1980 respectively and have spent their entire careers working the rails of the Ocean State bracket a lone loaded tank for Safety-Kleen as they do a little parking lot running approaching the busy Elmwood Ave. / U.S. Route 1 crossing
If you want to learn more here are some links I recommend:
As always, Edward Ozog's site should be your first stop for all things Rhode Island railroading:
sites.google.com/site/rhodeislandrailroads/home/east-prov...
The fine folks at Classic Trains magazine also featured both of Rhody's little independent pikes in this piece:
www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/railroad-operations/smallest...
And here is something nice from the Rhode Island Historical Society:
navigator.rihs.org/rhode-island-a-bibliography-of-its-his...
Cranston, Rhode Island
Monday June 17, 2024
Street running in Ohio is hard to come by. Marietta and Franklin are the two big public ones, but they're seldom photographed. Troy also features street running, but for years sat unused, until 2017.
In late 2016, CSX began a project to revitalize the rail line from the Toledo Sub connection at N.E. Troy to Troy Elevator-Mennel, about 4 miles north of town. In the Chessie Days, this was called the P&T, or Piqua & Troy branch, once connecting the former PRR mainline to Columbus at Piqua, OH. For most of 2017, the branch sat unused until harvest season came around.
This day's D744, a CSX local out of Lima, eases down the parking lot near Lincoln Ave with 6 hoppers for the elevator.