What a year we had in 2020…

All the scheduled flights were canceled this year, spent nothing booked vacation along the coastline in Quebec, driving over 6,000km in the remote area… Got up almost every early morning for sunrise… Along the coastline, always had surprise, found falls along the river, the strongest waves I have ever seen… Also along the mountain valley, fall colors covered the mountains, reflected on the lake like mirror… 😉

Another one, even far north, over 3,000km driving in the rural area, seldom saw people, but saw the sign “Be sure fill your gas because no gas station in the next 500km”… 😉

I had the most sunrise photos in 2020, at Niagara Falls, although most time there was no sun, but there was sun in my heart... 😉

As a healthcare worker, I felt the stress in 2020, even everything stops, we can not stop… Appreciate we are alive, healthy… What else we expect... 😉 Hope a better 2021!

But I have the most support and loyalty from my Flickr friends! Heartfelt thanks for all my dearest Flickr friends with me in 2020!!! 💕

Sunrise - Forillon National Park, the photo was taken in the cliffs area during sunrise, no people around, just two seals swimming back and forth - singing, and two birds on top of cliffs... beautiful light arising behind the sea...

Wishing you and your loved ones a prosperous New Year with love, health, and joy!

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2: 10 Train - Rising Sons / Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (recorded 1965–1966) / (published 1992)

Mystery Train - The Neville Brothers / Brother's Keeper (1990). Original song Junior Parker (1953)

Slow Train - Kevin Morby / Harlem River (2013)

Runaway Train - Brandon Boyd / The Wild Trapeze (2010)

Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado - Train / Change My Game (2017)

The Gospel Train - Alabama 3 / Outlaw (2005)

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Had a talk with my old man

Said, "Help me understand"

He said "Turn 68, oh, you'll re-negotiate"

"Don't stop this train"

Don't for a minute change the place you're in

And don't think I couldn't ever understand

I tried my hand

John, honestly we'll never stop this train"

Cause now I see, I'm never gonna stop this train

Never gonna stop this train.

Stop This Train - John Mayer / Where The Light Is (Live in Los Angeles), Cd 1 / (2008)

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I have always lived in houses, which were very close to the sea and also very close there was a railway line. I have always liked to see a train pass or hear its sound. When I was little and left school, we would go to the railways, close to home, to throw stones at the freight wagons of the freight trains that came down and brought salt from the Súria and Cardona mines, to be loaded onto ships in the port of Barcelona. In addition to throwing stones at it, we counted the number of wagons the locomotive was carrying. Possibly, this train loaded with salt, its schedule was around 1 noon and not at 2:10, like the song written by Albertano and sung with that special voice by Taj Mahal, whom I consider the best bluesman, with permission from B.B. King.

We spend a part of our childhood on the railroad tracks, between abandoned wagons and freight trains. And the port and the sea in summer. Unforgettable days.

There was a day, when several locomotives united, transported many wagons. We count more than a hundred. They seem like a lot to me, but the mind of a child, when he is a child, is a little messy. They talk and think in such a way that it seems they are a little crazy. But they are not. I don't know if it was really more than a hundred wagons that we counted. Possibly we miscounted. But that day... that day was a truly unforgettable "orgy" of stone throwing.

On this railway line, some people died who did not hear the locomotive arrive. And even some person committed suicide, stretched out on the tracks while the railroad came at full speed, without the possibility of stopping. While i'm listening to "Mystery Train" by The Neville Brothers, with this lilting rhythm, imitating the sound of a railway, I remember the kind locomotive driver, who when he saw us, he would sound the train's horn, say hello to us and reduce the speed of the locomotive, so that we had more time to throw stones. We were not hooligans. We were just... children playing .

Never let a train get away from you. And much less, those trains that suddenly appear and cross our lives. Get on all the trains you find, even if they are mysterious... because life is a mystery train, you never know where it will take you.

.....

Cause now I see, I'm never gonna stop this train

Never gonna stop this train.

Well I woke up this morning and the sun refused to shine.

Til I hear the 2:10 train.

oops,,,, This photo was scheduled to be posted this morning.

But I couldn't post because I didn't have time.

Therefore, although it is night in Japan, we will deliver it to Good morning all over the world.

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One of the prettiest spiders--at least in this area. I'll have a similar one to this to post in October for the Arachtober group.

I go back to work tomorrow. Three weeks of teacher meetings and prep, then the students return Sept. 8 for face to face instruction, although on a staggered schedule. I am not quite looking forward to that. Don't get me wrong--I love and miss my kids, but I do want a safe working environment, and I do not think we're safe at all yet.

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The silence of the mountains is briefly interrupted as the hottest train on the railroad, Santa’s sleigh, rolls into Dante, Virginia. Loaded with tons of Christmas cheer for all of the children along the Clinchfield, Santa and the jolly elves have their work cutout to make sure they stick to the schedule. The North Pole cannot be late for their deliveries! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and your families. I hope it’s a wonderful season.

Moelfre is a village, a commuity and until 2012 an electoral ward on the north-east coast of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.

The community area covers the village and the harbour, and several smaller dispersed settlements. It includes six scheduled Iron Age hut groups and many other sites of archaeological interest.

Windows of Opportunity" have been on my mind a lot. We are tentatively scheduled to take a May tour of Bryce & Zion canyons with Road Scholar in May of 2022. The COVID numbers are rising. If I were in my 40's , I would wait and say that there would be other opportunities "when life becomes more normal (safe)". I am in my mid-70's and healthy. There is still the thought in the back of my mind as to how many windows of opportunity will be in my future. We will decide as the time draws nearer.

I am reflecting, not complaining. We have weathered the pandemic well and our living situation is comfortable. I have also had many opportunities in the past to experience other places. The Irish rover in my genes still longs for a look beyond my present horizon, however, and it's a nagging feeling.

There will be one other post in this "windows of opportunity" series.

Kirkby Lonsdale in the south of Cumbria developed at a crossing point over the River Lune, where several drovers' and packhorse routes converged. It is one of the few Cumbrian towns mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The town is noted for the Devil's Bridge which at one time carried the Skipton to Kendal road over the River Lune. It dates from around 1370 and has three spans. It is 45 feet from the river to the parapet and is certainly one of the highest medieval packhorse bridges that I have seen.

The bridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is Grade I-listed. It is considered to be one of the finest medieval bridges in England.

Is it like overcrowded railroad schedule?

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Crater Lake’s East Rim Drive received a much-needed renovation last summer. It was scheduled to be closed for the entire season (it closes every year in the winter anyway) but opened on my last day there in late September. With its opening also came access to Mt Scott, making me one of the first people all year to get this view from the summit of Crater Lake’s highest point. The view of the lake is also pretty cool from up here, but I’ve posted several of those images already. The road to the upper right leads to Cloud Cap Overlook, the highest point on the rim of the caldera and spectacular spot to watch the sunset.

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Due to busy schedule at the office, I don't have time to take a fresh shot so I am posting old pix from my Philippine Vacation . Have a Relaxing Monday to all My Flickr Friends.

[Photograph taken at Island Cove - Cavite, Philippines]

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busy schedule today and the next days. So kick under my own bum to rise and shine, to wake up the best version of Emily, to ... ok i do need coffee!!

Kingfishers are small unmistakable bright blue and orange birds of slow moving or still water. They fly rapidly, low over water, and hunt fish from riverside perches, occasionally hovering above the water's surface. They are vulnerable to hard winters and habitat degradation through pollution or unsympathetic management of watercourses. Kingfishers are amber listed because of their unfavourable conservation status in Europe. They are also listed as a Schedule 1 species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act offering them additional protection.

37608 'Andromeda' opens up nicely through Kirby Bellars on 29th March 2025, working the 5Q58 10:00 Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Asfordby RIDC. In the formation were LNW units 730217 and 730212, which were scheduled to be moved from Bletchley the previous day but ended up going to Chaddesden instead due to issues with 37501.

The stunning St Peter's church in the background was once the Kirby Bellars Priory, built somewhere in the period between 1319 and 1359.

Scalloway castle is one of only two castles in Shetland, Scotland. It is a four story tower house with decorative corbelling at the corners. It was built in 1600, with forced labour, from local limestone and sandstone from Orkney by the unpopular tyrant Patrick Stewart (son of Mary Queen of Scots half-brother Robert), who was beheaded in 1615 for oppression of the local people and treason. It is a scheduled monument, currently undergoing restoration.

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A Golden Beaver has escaped from the clutches of the icebox known as Montana and is on its way to the West Coast with 100 loads of grain from Sweetgrass. This train started off on the 11th with some skittles for power but has had numerous problems along the way resulting in being almost 3 days behind schedule and filled out with all BNSF units. Luckily the 7007 kept working and stayed leading through it all. With some snow packed in behind the plow, the crew eases along on yellows on M1 due to MOW working in Holbrook on M2. The G-SWEGUC3-11 is set up 3x2x0 with BNSF 609, a neutered warbonnet D9 now AC44C4M, in the 3rd spot, and two more pumpkins 2/3 back in the train moving just under 14k tons of grain.

CP 7007 is the former 9119, a SD9043MAC, built by EMD in 11-98 and rebuilt by Progress Rail in 2019.

Like much of England, the site of the New Forest was once deciduous woodland, recolonised by birch and eventually beech and oak after the withdrawal of the ice sheets starting around 12,000 years ago. Some areas were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards; the poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland "waste", which may have been used even then as grazing land for horses.

There was still a significant amount of woodland in this part of Britain, but this was gradually reduced, particularly towards the end of the Middle Iron Age around 250–100 BC, and most importantly the 12th and 13th centuries, and of this essentially all that remains today is the New Forest.

There are around 250 round barrows within its boundaries, and scattered boiling mounds, and it also includes about 150 scheduled ancient monuments. One such barrow in particular may represent the only known inhumation burial of the Early Iron Age and the only known Hallstatt culture burial in Britain; however, the acidity of the soil means that bone very rarely survives.

Following Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain, according to Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), the area became the site of the Jutish kingdom of Ytene; this name was the genitive plural of Yt meaning "Jute", i.e. "of the Jutes". The Jutes were one of the early Anglo-Saxon tribal groups who colonised this area of southern Hampshire. The word ytene (or ettin) is also found locally as a synonym for giant, and features heavily in local folklore.

Following the Norman Conquest, the New Forest was proclaimed a royal forest, in about 1079, by William the Conqueror. It was used for royal hunts, mainly of deer. It was created at the expense of more than 20 small hamlets and isolated farmsteads; hence it was then 'new' as a single compact area.

The New Forest was first recorded as Nova Foresta in Domesday Book in 1086, where a section devoted to it is interpolated between lands of the king's thegns and the town of Southampton; it is the only forest that the book describes in detail. Twelfth-century chroniclers alleged that William had created the forest by evicting the inhabitants of 36 parishes, reducing a flourishing district to a wasteland; however, this account is thought dubious by most historians, as the poor soil in much of the area is believed to have been incapable of supporting large-scale agriculture, and significant areas appear to have always been uninhabited.

Two of William's sons died in the forest: Prince Richard sometime between 1069 and 1075, and King William II (William Rufus) in 1100. Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest; 17th-century writer Richard Blome provides exquisite detail:

In this County [Hantshire] is New-Forest, formerly called Ytene, being about 30 miles in compass; in which said tract William the Conqueror (for the making of the said Forest a harbour for Wild-beasts for his Game) caused 36 Parish Churches, with all the Houses thereto belonging, to be pulled down, and the poor Inhabitants left succourless of house or home. But this wicked act did not long go unpunished, for his Sons felt the smart thereof; Richard being blasted with a pestilent Air; Rufus shot through with an Arrow; and Henry his Grand-child, by Robert his eldest son, as he pursued his Game, was hanged among the boughs, and so dyed. This Forest at present affordeth great variety of Game, where his Majesty oft-times withdraws himself for his divertisement.

The reputed spot of Rufus's death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone. John White, Bishop of Winchester, said of the forest:

From God and Saint King Rufus did Churches take, From Citizens town-court, and mercate place, From Farmer lands: New Forrest for to make, In Beaulew tract, where whiles the King in chase Pursues the hart, just vengeance comes apace, And King pursues. Tirrell him seing not, Unwares him flew with dint of arrow shot.

The common rights were confirmed by statute in 1698. The New Forest became a source of timber for the Royal Navy, and plantations were created in the 18th century for this purpose. In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4000 oak trees were lost.

The naval plantations encroached on the rights of the Commoners, but the Forest gained new protection under the New Forest Act 1877, which confirmed the historic rights of the Commoners and entrenched that the total of enclosures was henceforth not to exceed 65 km2 (25 sq mi) at any time. It also reconstituted the Court of Verderers as representatives of the Commoners (rather than the Crown).

As of 2005, roughly 90% of the New Forest is still owned by the Crown. The Crown lands have been managed by the Forestry Commission since 1923 and most of the Crown lands now fall inside the new National Park.

Felling of broadleaved trees, and their replacement by conifers, began during the First World War to meet the wartime demand for wood. Further encroachments were made during the Second World War. This process is today being reversed in places, with some plantations being returned to heathland or broadleaved woodland. Rhododendron remains a problem.

During the Second World War, an area of the forest, Ashley Range, was used as a bombing range. During 1941-1945, the Beaulieu, Hampshire Estate of Lord Montagu in the New Forest was the site of group B finishing schools for agents[18] operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) between 1941 and 1945. (One of the trainers was Kim Philby who was later found to be part of a spy ring passing information to the Soviets.) In 2005, a special exhibition was mounted at the Estate, with a video showing photographs from that era as well as voice recordings of former SOE trainers and agents.

Further New Forest Acts followed in 1949, 1964 and 1970. The New Forest became a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971, and was granted special status as the New Forest Heritage Area in 1985, with additional planning controls added in 1992. The New Forest was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 1999, and it became a National Park in 2005.

For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Forest and www.thenewforest.co.uk/

TWB305 from Seoul Incheon arriving 25 minutes ahead of schedule

Northstar 1901, the only northbound reverse commuter train scheduled, makes its 6:40AM departure right on schedule. While the Twin Cities seem to have a healthy multimodal/transit infrastructure, commuter rail has really struggled since the pandemic. These reverse commute trains were among those added in late 2023 in an effort to reverse a ridership death spiral. Time will tell if it's enough to keep the service viable.

Both sandhill crane eggs hatched and out popped two precocious, healthy orangey-gold chicks, endearingly known as "colts" almost immediately ready to follow their parents out of the nest on their diligent foraging for worms and insects to feed the colts.

Interesting to note that these photos were taken exactly one year to the day from my images of the 2019 hatchlings. These guys really keep to a tight schedule!

Tigger on the table after dinner tonight. She (like Bonkers and probably all cats) has her routines and scheduled she must follow. For Tigger, that means jumping on the table after dinner for attention and affection.

Chicago O'Hare International Airport

Terminal 2 opened in 1962.

My father, Norman M Reed [11/11/1925 to 02/23/2023 – 97 yrs old], was a retired Allegheny Airlines Captain [US Airways]. He spent 13.5 years, 11,800 hours and 30162 take-offs & landings while flying the DC-3 in scheduled airline service for Lake Central Airlines [The FAA says it is a record for To's & Ldgs in a DC3 in domestic scheduled airline service], one of the legacy airlines of the "New American" Airlines.

Dad & Mom moved to Texas in 1977 from Catharpin, VA after my father retired from Allegheny Airlines [just before they changed their name to USAir in 1979 - he was originally with Lake Central Airlines - hire date 1953 - that merged with Allegheny in 1968] as a DC-9 Captain. He has flown in scheduled airline service the DC3, Nord 262, Convair 340 & 580 and the DC9-30 &-50. He was trained in the Army Air Corp during WWII on the P-47 & P-38. He never saw combat. Mom is 91 this year - 2025.

DC-3

DC-3 Commercial Transport

The Douglas DC-3, which made air travel popular and airline profits possible, is universally recognized as the greatest airplane of its time. Some would argue that it is the greatest of all time.

Design work began in 1934 at the insistence of C.R. Smith, president of American Airlines. Smith wanted two new planes — a longer DC-2 that would carry more day passengers and another with railroad-type sleeping berths, to carry overnight passengers.

The first DC-3 built was the Douglas Sleeper Transport — also known as Skysleepers by airline customers — and it was the height of luxury. Fourteen plush seats in four main compartments could be folded in pairs to form seven berths, while seven more folded down from the cabin ceiling. The plane could accommodate 14 overnight passengers or 28 for shorter daytime flights. The first was delivered to American Airlines in June 1936, followed two months later by the first standard 21-passenger DC-3.

In November 1936, United Airlines, which had been a subsidiary of Boeing until 1934, became the second DC-3 customer. The DC-2 had proved more economical than the Model 247, and United assumed the DC-3 would continue that lead. Initial orders from American and United were soon followed by orders from more than 30 other airlines in the next two years.

The DC-3 was not only comfortable and reliable, it also made air transportation profitable. American's C.R. Smith said the DC-3 was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers, without relying on government subsidies. As a result, by 1939, more than 90 percent of the nation's airline passengers were flying on DC-2s and DC-3s.

In addition to the 455 DC-3 commercial transports built for the airlines, 10,174 were produced as C-47 military transports during World War II. For both airline and military use, the DC-3 proved to be tough, flexible, and easy to operate and maintain. Its exploits during the war became the stuff of legend. Today, more than six decades after the last one was delivered, hundreds of DC-3s are still flying and still earning their keep by carrying passengers or cargo.

Source: www.boeing.com/history/products/dc-3.page

Lake Central Airlines

Lake Central Airlines was a local service carrier and scheduled airline that served multiple locations throughout the midwestern and eastern United States from 1950 to 1968, when it then merged into Allegheny Airlines. In 1979 Allegheny became USAir, and in 1997, USAir became US Airways. In 2015, US Airways was acquired by American Airlines through a merging of the two companies.

History

The airline was founded as Turner Airlines in 1948; it was based at Weir Cook Airport (now Indianapolis International Airport) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lake Central's network in the 1950s extended from Chicago to Pittsburgh; in August 1953 it had scheduled flights to 21 airports, and in May 1968, this number increased to 39.

Like other local service airlines regulated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board, Lake Central was subsidized; in 1962 its revenue of $10.8 million included $4.2 million of "pub. serv. rev.".[2]

In February 1955 Lake Central Airlines became the first employee-owned scheduled airline in the history of the air transport industry.[3] 162 employees (65% of the total) bought 97.5% of the outstanding stock, 25% outright, and the rest financed over 24 months.

Effective July 1, 1968, the airline was acquired by and merged into Allegheny Airlines. Allegheny later closed the Indianapolis base and sold the Nord 262s, which had proven unreliable.[4] Lake Central had planned on acquiring new Boeing 737-200s, but the order was cancelled.

Fleet

Lake Central flew Douglas DC-3s, Convair 340s, Convair 580s, Beechcraft Bonanzas, and Nord 262s [Lake Central's first Nord 262 was delivered in August 1965]. DC-3 flights ended in 1967, and by spring of 1968 Lake Central had an all-turboprop fleet of Convair 580s and Nord 262s.[5]

Historical fleet

Lake Central Airlines previously operated the following aircraft:[6]

8 Convair CV-340

4 Convair CV-580

1 Curtiss C-46 Commando (N1802M)

14 Douglas DC-3

5 Douglas C-47 Skytrain

3 Douglas C-53 Skytrooper

12 Nord 262A

Destinations in 1968

Shortly before the merger into Allegheny Airlines, Lake Central was serving the following cities with an all-turboprop fleet, mainly consisting of Convair 580 and Nord 262 aircraft, according to its April 28, 1968 timetable:[7]

Akron/Canton, Ohio

Baltimore, Maryland

Bloomington, Indiana

Buffalo, New York

Charleston, West Virginia

Chicago, Illinois (Chicago O'Hare Airport)

Cincinnati, Ohio - hub

Clarksburg, West Virginia

Cleveland, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio - hub

Danville, Illinois

Dayton, Ohio

Detroit, Michigan

Elkins, West Virginia

Erie, Pennsylvania

Evansville, Indiana

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Indianapolis, Indiana - hub & airline headquarters

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kokomo, Indiana

Lafayette, Indiana

Lima, Ohio

Louisville, Kentucky

Mansfield, Ohio

Marion, Indiana

Martinsburg, West Virginia

Morgantown, West Virginia

Muncie, Indiana

Parkersburg, West Virginia

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Portsmouth, Ohio

St. Louis, Missouri

South Bend, Indiana

Terre Haute, Indiana

Toledo, Ohio

Washington, D.C. (Washington National Airport)

Wheeling, West Virginia

Youngstown, Ohio

Zanesville, Ohio

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Central_Airlines

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Crater of Zao

蔵王のお釜

This is Okama in Zao. I actually wanted to come here in February or March to see the snow scenery, but I couldn't make the schedule work, so I stopped by on my way back from Tohoku.

蔵王のお釜です。本当は2月か3月の雪景色を見に来たかったけれど、日程が組めなかったので、東北の帰りに寄ってみました。

Kaminoyama city, Yamagata pref, Japan

This variety of Cicada (Magicicada) has a 17-year life cycle and is part of brood IV, or the Kansan Brood. The last time they emerged in Nebraska was 1998. They started to emerge from the ground about a week ago as they were delayed by the rainy weather. So happy that we were able to find them in Weeping Water, Nebraska yesterday afternoon.

People call these cicadas “locusts” but they are not true locusts — real locusts look like grasshoppers. The phrase “17 year cicada” indicates that they arrive every 17 years. The name “periodical cicadas” indicates that they arrive periodically and not each and every year. The scientific name for the Genus of these cicadas is Magicicada, and there are 3 types of 17 year Magicicadas: Magicicada septendecim, Magicicada cassini and Magicicada septendecula. This is a true locust:

There are literally billions of 17- year cicadas. Why? One theory suggests that the large number of cicadas overwhelms predators, so predators are never able to eat them all and many always survive to mate. This is a survival strategy called “predator satiation”.

Some of you may enjoy the following website: www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/brood-iv-the-kansan-brood-wil...

With its scheduled maintenance complete, Arcturus Outpost’s LL-928 Galaxy Explorer takes flight, to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations.

--- For this shot, I was trying to take the vibe from the box artwork with the ship zipping across a starry skied tan colored, planetoid surface and just give it a 2020’s sci-fi cinematic look and feel.

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37800 passing Murcott, near Long Buckby, working as 5Q50 Kilmarnock-Wolverton, dragging 317334. It caught me off guard a tad, as it was right behind a unit, and was suddenly about 40 early here as it missed its scheduled break at Rugby.

23rd March 2020

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In September 2015, I was scouting out and photographing numerous sites around Lake Tahoe, California and many sites in the Eastern Sierras for a short 5 days.

One the night of September 17, I took the Bonsai Rock Milky Way shot with the moon just above the distant mountain peaks.

The next day we moved down into the Eastern Sierras where I had been planning to photograph the iconic bristlecone pine tree with the Milky Way. Little did I know on the way down how well the moon would come into play with my night sky photography work there.

I used a long established technique to get the moon rays in this shoot while I light painted the bristlecone pine tree with my special light.

In 2017, I will have two 5 day Milky Way photography workshop in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, one over the 3rd week in March and one over the 3rd week in April.

During each of the two workshops, I will conduct 3 4+ hour Milky Way Photoshop post processing session where I teach all the techniques I used to create this final photo but this time it will be more of what is called a "Deep Dive" PS post processing session and workshop participants will need a laptop with Photoshop CS 2017. Lightroom will work but lacks some functionality used in what I will teach.

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My Milky Way night sky photography workshops

In 2017, I will be leading two 4 day photography workshops in Jackson Hole. During both workshops, I will take my group out for 3 nights of my Milky Way night sky workshop.

My 2017 4-5 day photography workshop schedule:

ANP, Canyonlands & Monument Valley - March 24-29

Icons of the Southwest w/Ryan Smith - April 23-28

Jackson Hole, Wyoming spring - June 21-25

Jackson Hole, Wyoming fall - September 19-23

The great part is that in 2017 I will return to Jackson Hole for the incredible wildflowers throughout the valley and the surrounding mountains.

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Another from this rainy fally weekend when on a whim I made a quick overnight trip out to Pennsylvania to see some friends and experience the greatest show in Steam Railroading operating in the northeast.

For Steam Sunday here is another recent one of Reading and Northern 2102 leading a Fall Foliage excursion round trip from North Reading to Jim Thorpe and return. The stout 4-8-4 was built in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:

The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.

The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own shops right in Reading, PA.

She is seen here on historic 'home rails' of the old Reading Company sending smoke and steam to the heavens as claws at the wet rails starting 17 cars north after making a scheduled stop to pick up passengers here at the railroad's headquarters town at about MP 78.4 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline.

Home of the RBMN's corporate offices, dispatching center, locomotive shop, and covered train shed for their OCS equipment Port Clinton is a railfan's delight with props galore like this signal bridge that was saved and reinstalled here (if anyone knows where it was originally I'd love to know) and the juxtaposition of old and new in the form of switch standS with a modern bow handles and old school colored lantern targets. Now fully equipped with a CTC signaled mainline there was virtually nothing here in 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 the only thing to be found in this spot was a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods.

To learn more about this locomotive check out the RBMN's page here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates

Port Clinton, Pennsylvania

Saturday October 14, 2023

Atlas Blue was a low-cost airline based in Marrakech. It was a subsidiary of Royal Air Maroc (RAM), operating charter and scheduled services. During 2010, Atlas Blue flights were rebranded as Royal Air Maroc flights, with the aircraft being repainted in RAM livery.

Stonehenge a Scheduled Ancient prehistoric monument located 2 miles west of Amesbury in Wiltshire.

One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3,100 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first bluestones were raised between 2,400 and 2,200 BC. Another theory suggests the bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3,000 BC.

The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge. It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. The dating of cremated remains indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug. Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.

A pair of Union Pacific's four-axle EMDs were shuffling some intermodal cars around Global III west of Rochelle in 2008.

Due to UP's implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading, Union Pacific has shuttered this once-busy facility and the trains no longer call on Global III.

Heading to Germany next week for multiple events including a private art show — wanna come? Here's my schedule (contact assistant Ruby at ruby@stuckincustoms.com for scheduling) Sep 21 - 24 — Photokina in Cologne Sep 24 - 27 — Bits & Pretzels Conference in Munich Sep 28+ — Berlin private art show (leave a comment or signup for our newsletter at ift.tt/1gjJSBn if you want one of the 5 limited tickets available) Here's a photo of Cologne that I took last time I was there when all my camera gear was stolen! Hopefully, this time, it will be a smoother trip! :)  via Trey Ratcliff on FB at ift.tt/1v05hWZ Snapchat: treyratcliff ift.tt/1qx3iMJ Instagram: treyratcliff ift.tt/1c7s6Uy

It's Thursday. The day, when I get my work schedule for the next week.

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Last night was the annual Million Mask March through central London. After the troubles last year, such as the burning of a police car there were a lot more police on the streets, and they were much more assertive in dealing with protesters.

The red lines on this guy are focus beams from a TV camera outside the van. I couldn't help thinking it looked like the Terminator had tracked him down!

The final scheduled Deltic departure from King's Cross 40 years ago today is seen at its penultimate stop as the service was terminated on arrival at Grantham due to a broken rail. After running round the stock it formed a 18.58 Grantham - King's Cross but this was terminated at Knebworth due to wheelslip problems and ran ecs to King's Cross assisted by 47 426.

While headed southbound to Fall River, Conrail WNMI-2 is about to duck under the Golf Club Rd. OH bridge near Somerset Jct. The Fall River Secondary & the New Bedford Subdivision are both in the process of being rebuilt as part of the MBTA South Coast Rail commuter rail restoration project, which is scheduled to open later this year.. While MassDot owns these lines, Mass Coastal currently dispatches, maintains and operates freight service over this territory.

My Dad (the conductor) is in the fireman's doorway of GP-15-1 #1664! March 17, 1987.

This pic is a "recycled" shot which I posted a couple of years ago when I didn't have many followers.

Check out this link to my son Mikey's post for a current view of Mass Coastal at the same location. flic.kr/p/2ocJf1M

I'm just trying to break on through to the weekend... an entire two consecutive days off! YEY! (I usually work every Sunday) ... in the meantime, I have been trying to find excuses to go in earlier and get out earlier... and what do I get... a phone call saying "Hey! This week you can work as many hours as you want as long as you don't go into overtime!" ...as opposed to the usual... "make sure you stick to your scheduled hours because there's no payroll." I'm thinking... no, just no.... no more hours. Better things to do. Spring fever? Maybe....

Work.... getting in the way of all of the important and fun things I'd rather be doing!! UGH!!

Hamburg - Moments

Light on schedule.

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Today, the Federal Railroad Administration released their proposed crew rule. In it, the FRA proposes to regulate the size of crews that must be on most freight trains, requiring that an engineer and a conductor are on the train. It also includes limited exceptions for, and a process to approve, single person operations. This rule is the result of a lot of things, but has been ironically pushed over the finish line by the "precision scheduled railroading" philosophy of "he who shall not be named." PSR has forced Class 1 railroads in a race to the bottom as they instituted leadership teams solely focused on cutting costs, on a blind and dangerous path to where we are now. But they are learning the hard way, as are many American businesses, that it is PEOPLE who make your operation run. And as they struggle to fix the self-inflicted damage, an industry which has gone largely unregulated since the Staggers Act, is facing more (and might I say necessary) scrutiny on their operations. I chose this photo, because it emphasizes the importance of the two-person crew in hard situations, such as a car taking out a crossing gate at a busy intersection in Ashland Virginia: it required signal maintainers, dispatchers, engineers, and conductors to safely coordinate the movement of Q410 (it was Q back when this was taken) through downtown Ashland. It is quite ironic that the philosophy of a man who tried to take the people out of railroading ended up being what drove the government to regulate and require them. It shows what happens when you take a philosophy too far, and become path dependent. The E. Hunter Harrison rule- a legacy to always remember.

Come join us @ the Grove Art Center for a variety of different things to participate in.

Photoclub every Saturday @ 1130 SLT

Neatniks @ 1100 SLT Every Monday (clean your inventory and learn some techiniques to this need we all have)

TV Time with Dutch 2nd and 4th Saturday after Photoclub Showing Lost in Austen

And for your learning education:

Learning composition: Colour Theory Sept 17 and Sept 24 @ 1200 and 1800 SLT