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After the parade, a walk along the River Welland to Springfields retail outlet and its excellent gardens.
Connecticut Southern CSO-4 pulls up Springfield, MA on a hot summer morning. This train would pull clear of the switch and shove their train across the Connecticut River into West Springfield Yard
NS 255, the world-famous Triple Crown RoadRailer from Detroit to Kansas City, crosses the I&M at the now-closed Shops Tower in Springfield, Illinois after getting nailed by a defect detector just outside of town. Leading the train is one of only a handful of unrebuilt NS C44-9Ws left on the roster.
A Red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) moving down the trunk of the River birch tree. As usual, I saw a flash of movement and after a bit located this little fellow against the bright sky and leaves.
Sometimes the railroad's woes are the railfan's wins...and that was the case for the five of us on this day!
P40DC 6711 leads CTrail train 6455 southbound for New Haven running as a double draft. Northbound CTrail train 6402 had broken down just outside its final destination as P40DC 6701 (blt. Nov. 1993 by GE as AMTK 834, acquired in 2005 and rebuilt by Beech Grove in 2019-2020) suffered ground faults and sat disabled on the curve beneath Interstate 91 for over two and a half hours. The two passengers aboard were taken off the train and then management ultimately decided to leave the train until the next northbound showed up. After being rescued by train 6454 the two sets (one with three Mafersa coaches and one with three MBBs) shoves into the station and made a quick turn as this train. This view looks north off the pedestrian bridge right at MP 61 on Amtrak's ex New Haven Springfield Line main. Fortuitous timing allowed for this rolling meet with exactly two hour late Amtrak shuttle train 460 finally arriving after suffering equipment problems of it's own down in New Haven.
Springfield is New England's fourth largest city and has a compact but surprisingly impressive skyline mixed with modern and historic architecture. A close observation will note the 300 ft. Italianate style Campanile clock tower which dates from 1913 and is part of the municipal group collection of city government buildings. Due to a legal height restriction in Springfield imposed by the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1908, the Campanile remained the tallest structure in the city until 1973 when Bay State West (now called Tower Square) was built. Its views would remain largely unobstructed until the construction of Monarch Place in 1987 which is 100 ft taller and dominates this scene.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Sunday January 30, 2022
As light fades behind an approaching cold front, BNSF 9570 rolls east through downtown Springfield, OH, leading NS 305 towards its next stop at Columbus, OH.
Springfield Falls is located on Falls Road in Leesburg, PA, near Grove City.
To the right of the falls is Bruno Fine Art Jewlers, which has limited all access to their side of the stream bank. The woods surrounding the falls was at one time the site of the Springfield Iron Furnace, which was the first Iron Furnace of Mercer County, circa 1850. The water from Hunter's Run powered the second tallest wooden water wheel in the United States at 38 feet. The power from the wheel was used to heat the bellows, allowing the furnace to reach temperatures of over 2500 degrees.
The late winter sun tries to sneak over onto the north side of the tracks here at the Farmward Co-Op near Springfield where the resident GP10 retains its Illinois Central Gulf number.
I'm not sure if this building is actually still functioning as a hospital. It looks as though it's been/being converted to apartments. It was originally a 'Pauper Lunatic Asylum!' Some of the surrounding buildings, old & new are still in use.
completely my design (simple, yes, but perfect).
The tattoo artist did absolutely nothing to it, but size it for me.
It is so perfect, and people are now approaching me to do designs for them. Very surreal.
Here is my version of Springfield "Town Hall"
Part of the "Springfield Project" I'm working on for my LUG.
Already done:
My website: 6kyubi6 Lego Creations
Inspired by Pepa Quin's: www.flickr.com/photos/pepa_quin/14305549048/
The sky was still open enough in the west to allow the sun to say goodnight but overhead the clouds were thick and dark. Started raining 5 minutes after this shot. Taken at a low angle to maximize the sky reflections in the puddles.
This is the view down from the new Springfield Union Station parking garage situated just north of CSXT's ex Boston and Albany main. I'd never been up here before but it offers a nice view down on to CP98 and the passenger platforms with a great view of the downtown core of New England's fourth largest city and the myriad historic buildings. Afternoon light is perfect for photography up here but alas the sun did not cooperate at train time.
Here is CTrail train 4407 departing for New Haven with one of the rebuilt and freshly repainted former Shoreline East GP40-3Hs leading. To see what this unit looked like before her second rebuild check out this earlier photo of mine: flic.kr/p/2kPFMgG
The Amtrak consist at left will follow south 90 min later as shuttle train 475.
The large building directly behind the locomotive is the old post office and federal building constructed in 1832 of polished Indiana limestone in the Art Moderne style. The post office moved out in 1967 and in 1983 the building was sold to the state and has house offices of the commonwealth ever since.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Friday March 14, 2021
Buffalo Springfield
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I was excited to photograph at night at an interesting site full of old vintage train cars and locomotives. My joints and muscles felt sore from my second vaccination, but this didn't dampen my enthusiasm. I met up with my friends Ron, Dave, and Ivan on this beautiful warm March night. The site had much more ambient light than anticipated, but we still managed to make it work. The light is from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device as well as a full moon and various lights nearby. And yes, as you might guess, the band was named after the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company, which made rollers to level surfaces for roads and railroad tracks. And yes, as you might guess, I have another photo of this steamroller, and I will undoubtedly name that "Buffalo Springfield Revisited".
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 27 seconds f/8 ISO 200. March 2021. (4040)
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_State_Capitol
The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois. The current building is the sixth to serve as the capitol building since Illinois was admitted to the United States in 1818. Built in the architectural styles of the French Renaissance and Italianate, it was designed by Cochrane and Garnsey, an architecture and design firm based in Chicago. Ground was broken for the new capitol on March 11, 1868, and the building was completed twenty years later for a total cost of $4.5 million.
The building contains the chambers for the Illinois General Assembly, which is made up of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. An office for the Governor of Illinois, additional offices, and committee rooms are also in the building. The capitol's footprint is cross-shaped, with four equal wings. Its tall central dome and tower roofs are covered in zinc to provide a silvery facade which does not weather. Architecture scholar Jean A. Follett describes it as a building that "is monumental in scale and rich in detail." The interior of the dome features a plaster frieze painted to resemble bronze, which illustrates scenes from Illinois history, and stained glass windows, including a stained glass replica of the state seal in the oculus of the dome.