Yr Wyddfa a'r rheilffordd - Snowdon and its railway
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While walking the Thames Path, I found this little mosaic in a wall saying "Thanks for the truth, Snowden"
London street art.
Happy Wall Wednesday! ;-))
taken last Thursday after a long day hiking up to snowden summit and back down again ,watkin path snowdonia, Wales
Taken at about 5.30am this morning (21/09) at Llyn Nantlle in north wales. Was a beautiful morning to be out but due to the lack of clouds the sunrise was a bit of an anti climax but I was happy enough with the blue hour :-)
Le parc a été créé en 1951. C’est le deuxième parc le plus grand de Grande-Bretagne et surtout qui détient le plus haut sommet du pays, le mont Snowdon, (1 085 mètres d’altitude) qui domine la région. D’en haut, la vue est incomparable. Le parc abrite 100 lacs, 60 km de côtes et de plages immaculées, des tourbières et des marais, et 90 pics montagneux. La région regorge de paysages à découvrir : Chutes d’eau spectaculaires, rivières, lacs, forêts, vallées glacières, lands, brefs un bonheur pour les randonneurs.
Just four weeks ago and I stood in heavy rain at Snowden Ranger as the Welsh Highland Railway train for Beddgelert climbed along the valley side
A contrast with the heat of today
February 2, 2019: "Super local" H750 makes its way east on the C&O James River Subdivision at Snowden, Virginia. The rock pile in the right background would suggest Garland McKee has visited this spot sometime recently.
This is the tissues building that you will come across as you climb up the miners track on the way to Snowden, camera info Sony A-7-m3-1/50sec-at-F-11-iso-100-EF24-105mm-G
Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands. It is located in Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri) in Gwynedd. It is the busiest mountain in the United Kingdom and the third most visited attraction in Wales, with 582,000 people visiting annually.[3] It is designated as a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna.
The rocks that form Snowdon were produced by volcanoes in the Ordovician period, and the massif has been extensively sculpted by glaciation, forming the pyramidal peak of Snowdon and the arêtes of Crib Goch and Y Lliwedd. The cliff faces on Snowdon, including Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, are significant for rock climbing, and the mountain was used by Edmund Hillary in training for the 1953 ascent of Mount Everest.
The summit can be reached by a number of paths, and by the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack railway opened in 1896 which carries passengers the 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from Llanberis to the summit station. The summit also houses a cafe called Hafod Eryri, open only when the railway is operating; it opened in 2009 to replace one built in the 1930s. The railway generally operates to the summit station from Whitsun to October. The daily running schedule depends on weather and customer demand.
The name Snowdon is from the Old English for "snow hill", while the Welsh name – Yr Wyddfa – means "the tumulus" or "the barrow", which may refer to the cairn thrown over the legendary giant Rhitta Gawr after his defeat by King Arthur. As well as other figures from Arthurian legend, the mountain is linked to a legendary afanc (water monster) and the Tylwyth Teg (fairies).
CSXT 516, sporting YN2 colors, leads James River Subdivision local CSX L214 over the James River in Snowden, Virginia.
Taken from Llyn Padarn (handheld), with Elidir Fawr on the left. The water was like glass but a Black Labrador kept jumping into the water, I tried to sit it out but the midges won.
A grand old oak about a mile and a half south-east of Snowden's peak.
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Taken recently on a trip to Wales. In the foreground on the way up and down are lots of walkers. the Top of Snowden (the highest mountain in Wales) however was engulfed in the clouds . On the far right of the mountain is the steam railway track to the top. In the background on the right is the amazing Llanberis slate mine.
Central Oregon & Pacific northbound loaded with timber-related products, pictured near Snowden, California, heads for the exchange point at Hornbrook on May 19, 2016.
On August 23, 1996, a BNSF stack train cruises westbound through Snowden, Montana. in the background is the line that heads toward Sidney. The train is headed up by LMX B39-8 8542, a Burlington Northern C30-7, and a Santa Fe SD45.
The James River makes all the difference. Without the gently descending route following the eastward flowing James River to the Atlantic, coal traveling the former Chesapeake and Ohio bound for export in tidewater Virginia would have to be lifted over the Blue Ridge. Both the original mainline routes of the Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake and Ohio require significant grades to cross the Blue Ridge. The former Virginian Railway route that follows Roanoke River and also avoids a grade crossing the Blue Ridge became the primary tonnage route of the N&W and later Norfolk Southern. The James River Subdivision has carried tonnage trains east since its completion, while returning empties follow the original C&O mainline and climb the Blue Ridge west of Charlottesville.
The James River has cut a gently curving path through the surrounding Blue Ridge at Snowden, Virginia. Four AC propulsion locomotives in a 2X2 distributed power arrangement guide 200 loads bound for export at Newport News. CSX train C215-27 originated at Toms Fork, West Virginia.