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Home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in AD 305, the city was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, Salona. After the sack of Salona by the Avars and Slavs, the fortified Palace of Diocletian was settled by Roman refugees. Split became a Byzantine city. Later it drifted into the sphere of the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Croatia, with the Byzantines retaining nominal suzerainty.
This looks like a submarine but is actually a fancy boat for tourist trips. I think it has a glass bottom and perhaps can go lower in the water but I don’t think is fully submersible. Split, Croatia on the beautiful Adriatic.
Been pacing around in circles for hours now.
Running on it's own again Union Pacific 6312 takes one hundred and seven loads of corn from Savage, Minnesota through the farmland of the California Delta, as it blasts through Devries and Kingdon Road. The train is about an hour into it's final leg of it's cross country journey, as it heads to JD Heiskell's elevator outside of Pixley, California.
This train started it's trip for the West Coast on the thirteen running all the way to North Platte, Nebraska before becoming the rear end of the GSGAKE 15, in a masterful PSR demonstration of combining unit trains together to save on crews. Fortunately for me, due to the train needing a large piece of real-estate and a fair amount of time to get split up, Union Pacific chose to route this train down the dormant Sacramento Subdivision. Other than BNSF run through traffic, which was miserably absent, and a single local on Saturdays, this gave the crew all the time they needed to get the train split up and not jam up Roseville.
This train and a few other have a companion video available, follow the rabbit hole here: youtu.be/dw8iagTv9HY
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Beside the mall is an old farm that is still worked. The fencing used was the rails split from logs cut to clear the land.
Split Rock (Big Rock) in Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, is an erratic left behind by glaciers. It split in the 1990s.
Not much new to post at the moment, so here's something from March last year. No Photoshop on this, just a clever reflection on an empty shop front near Kings Cross station.
The most dramatic lighthouse setting I've ever visited is Split Rock in Minnesota. Sitting atop a 130 foot tall cliff that juts out into Lake Superior, the light was deemed necessary after the gales of November, 1909 destroyed countless ships on the Big Lake, including at least two at this location. This is one of the best restored lights that you will ever find. The huge original 2nd Order Fresnel lens is still in place, though the light has been decommissioned. All three of the keepers quarters are in prime shape and you can visit the head keeper's house, maybe even getting a hot baked cookie from the original stove in it. The light is located along Hwy 61, made famous by a native Minnesotan, and is part of a state park. One neat thing is they fire up the giant light every November in memory of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, though the Fitz went down way east of here by White Fish Point in Michigan, another great place to visit. If you love the Great Lakes, or the boats that ply their waters, or lighthouses, both places will give you goosebumps.
In the early years of the 20th century, iron ore shipments on Lake Superior doubled and redoubled. United States Steel's bulk ore carriers became "the greatest exclusive freight-carrying fleet sailing under one ownership in the world," so the demand for a new lighthouse on the lake's inhospitable North Shore was hardly surprising.
A single storm on Nov. 28, 1905, damaged 29 ships, fully one third of which were the uninsured property of the steel company fleet. Two of these carriers foundered on this rocky coastline, which some called "the most dangerous piece of water in the world." A delegation led by the steamship company president descended upon Washington, D.C., and in early 1907, Congress appropriated $75,000 for a lighthouse and fog signal in the vicinity of Split Rock.
The U. S. Lighthouse Service completed the 7.6-acre facility in 1910 and operated it until 1939, when the U.S. Coast Guard took command. By that time, Split Rock's picturesque setting near the North Shore highway, built in 1924, had made it "probably the most visited lighthouse in the United States."All rights reserved by Saibal Ghosh.