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Another wide angle shot of this scene just cause I think it's pretty cool to see a little bit of long abandoned railroad reborn.
Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad crew has run thru downtown Montpelier and is arriving at Barre Transfer at about MP 3.2 on the WACR's Montpelier and Barre Division with a cut of empties pulled from the NECR interchange yard at Montpelier Junction. They are in the process of setting them over on the old main (track to left) and then they will return to retrieve the loads they'd brought down from Barre and left in town earlier and deliver them to the NECR yard.
Red VTR 206 (a GP38-3 206 blt. Oct. 1969 as SOU 2718 and originally a high nosed straight GP38) and green GMRC 804 (a GP9r blt. Oct. 1955 as NW 13) are the assigned power on this little outpost which is isolated from the rest of the Vermont Rail System network.
Historically this location was known as Barre Transfer because here the rails of the Central Vermont, Barre Railroad and Montpelier and Wells River all met. The train arrived here via the nearly mile and a half stretch of trackage which was rebuilt on the former M&WR right of way four years ago (the track in center). This grade had been bereft of rails for 55 years when trains returned in 2021, and this was my first time photographing it. You can read more about why this happened here: vrs.us.com/reviving-a-historic-route-to-improve-service/non
The trackage coming in from the left is ex Central Vermont, first laid in 1875 when the 1849 branch into the capital city was extended to Barre. The track diverting to the right once led another 35 miles east to a junction with the Boston & Maine / Canadian Pacific Conn River Mainline at Wells River. Opened in 1873, trains ran until November 1956 when the route was abandoned and the rails removed except for an 1800 ft stub on this end extending east from this switch to a couple long closed customer sidings in East Montpelier.
In 1957 Sam Pinsly's Montpelier & Barre purchased the CV branch and he quickly consolidated it and the old Montpelier & Wells River (later Barre & Chelsea) routes between downtown Montpelier and Barre. The state purchased these rails in 1980 when the M&B petitioned for total abandonment, and they've had multiple contract operators over the years until finally settling on Vermont Rail System's Washington County Subsidiary about two decades ago.
Check out this shot from five years ago. In it you can see the abandoned right of way that is now rebuilt:
Montpelier, Vermont
Friday August 1, 2025
The Junk Yard (Edgewood Auto Wreckers). A vast array of junked vehicles are just as interesting as the train. How many do you recognize? RF&P GP40-2s-147 & 144 are leading the W/B 'OBSS' (Orange Blossom Special Service) TOFC train on Chessie System's Philly Sub main. The close track is the Van Bibber siding. Today, in 2022, the hillside and all above is completely blocked out by tree growth.
A couple of restored Bentley's overtake Vermont Rail System's Rutland to Bennington turn on Richville Rd, Manchester VT, on 4 October 2017.
GATX #2684, leading, began life in 1971 as a GP40 with the Baltimore and Ohio and was later rebuilt as a GP38-2.
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Pan Am Railways train 11R (E. Deerfield, MA-Mechanicville, NY) is seen taking the scenic route through Vermont due to a partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel in Florida, MA. MEC 5967 is seen leading the 4-pack of GE B40-8s (ex-CSXT), VTR 303, 310, and a nearly 100-car general freight. The train is seen passing the former Rutland Railroad depot in Wallingford, VT, which now is used by the town's fire department. This line is Vermont Railway System's Bennington Branch.
Here's Chessie System's Chicagoan cooling his heels at the Brickyard just east of Cottage Grove Ave in Dolton, IL. He's being held out by the Halsted Street yardmaster at Barr Yard, just long enough for me to get several shots of him. The Chicagoan was a fairly hot train, carrying pigs on the head end for Forest Hill. Standard procedure was for the train to pull in the North Open, cut off the balance of his train, and head up the hill with the pigs. There's a nice big cat on the head end, SD40 7566, with a GP40-2 trailing.
I’ve been keeping watch on the lovely celestial show in the western sky after sunset in the closing days of November. After commencing a new cycle on the 26th of the month, the Moon has been dancing its way through the gathering of naked-eye planets in that part of the heavens. On this night–28th November–I photographed the Moon when it was only 1% illuminated and a mere sliver of light pushing through the haze of bushfire smoke that marked the sky near Nerriga, Australia.
The pinprick of light that you can see above and to the left of the Moon denotes the position of Jupiter, our Solar System’s most massive planet and also the second-largest source of gravitational disturbance in our planetary nuclear family. High above, its light at once diffused and brightened by the endemic smoke and cloud, the planet Venus unmistakably telegraphs its location to those on the lookout for such wonders.
To quote the late Leonard Nimoy from his role in “The Simpsons”, Season 4/Episode 12, “The cosmic ballet goes on”.
For this single-frame photo, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Tamron 70-300mm lens @ 200 mm @ f/5.0 using an exposure time of 6.0 seconds @ ISO 1600.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made its stunning yearly observations of the Solar System’s giant planets, to reveal atmospheric changes.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.
Though robotic spacecraft have sent back snapshots of their visits to these four monster planets over the past 50 years, their swirling, colourful atmospheres are constantly changing. Fulfilling the role of a weather forecaster, every time Hubble’s sharp cameras revisit these worlds there are new surprises, offering fresh insights into their wild weather, driven by still largely unknown dynamics taking place under the cloudtops.
Hubble’s snapshots of the outer planets reveal both extreme and subtle changes rapidly taking place in these distant worlds. Hubble’s sharp view gleans insights into the fascinating, dynamic weather patterns and seasons on these gas giants and allows astronomers to investigate the very similar — and very different — variables that contribute to their changing atmospheres.
Jupiter
This year’s Hubble observations of Jupiter track the ever-changing landscape of its turbulent atmosphere, where several new storms are making their mark and the planet’s equator has changed colour yet again.
Hubble’s 4 September photo puts the giant planet’s tumultuous atmosphere on full display. The planet’s equatorial zone is now a deep orange hue, which researchers are calling unusual. While the equator has departed from its traditional white or beige appearance for a few years now, scientists were surprised to find a deeper orange in Hubble’s recent imaging, when they were expecting the zone to cloud up again.
Just above the equator, researchers note the appearance of several new storms, nicknamed “barges.” These elongated, deeply structured red cells can be defined as cyclonic vortices, which vary in appearance. Whilst some of the storms are sharply defined and clear, others are fuzzy and hazy. This difference in appearance is caused by the physical properties within the clouds of the vortices.
Researchers also note that a feature dubbed “Red Spot Jr.” (Oval BA), below the Great Red Spot where Hubble just discovered winds are speeding up, is still a darker beige colour, and is joined by several additional white, cyclonic storms to the south.
Hubble’s crisp views of Jupiter in 2020 was one of the most popular ESA/Hubble photo releases to date.
Saturn
Hubble’s new look at Saturn on 7 September 2021 shows rapid and extreme colour changes in the bands in the planet’s northern hemisphere, where it is now early autumn. The bands have varied throughout Hubble observations in both 2019 and 2020. Hubble’s Saturn image catches the planet following the southern hemisphere’s winter, evident in the lingering blue-ish hue of the south pole.
Uranus
Hubble’s 25 October view of Uranus puts the planet’s bright northern polar hood in the spotlight. It’s springtime in the northern hemisphere and the increase in ultraviolet radiation from the Sun seems to be causing the polar region to brighten. Researchers aren’t sure why. It could be a change in the opacity of atmospheric methane haze, or some variation in the aerosol particles. Curiously, even as the atmospheric hood gets brighter, the sharp southernmost boundary remains at the same latitude. This has been constant over the past several years of Hubble observations of the planet. Perhaps some sort of jetstream is setting up a barrier at that latitude of 43 degrees.
Neptune
In observations taken on 7 September 2021, researchers found that Neptune’s dark spot, which was recently found to have reversed course from moving towards the equator, is still visible in this image, along with a darkened northern hemisphere. There is also a notable dark, elongated circle encompassing Neptune’s south pole. The blue colour of both Neptune and Uranus is a result of the absorption of red light by the planets’ methane-rich atmospheres.
Notes
These new Hubble images form part of yearly maps of the entire planet taken under the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy programme, or OPAL. The programme provides yearly Hubble global views of the outer planets to look for changes in their storms, winds, and clouds.
Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.
Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team; CC BY 4.0
Pumpkins on parade. Amtrak GP7-774 & GP9-770, with caboose 14027, are heading S/B on the Northeast Corridor. Tracks in the foreground are the leads in & out of Conrail's Orangeville engine terminal. The overhead bridge is Chessie System's Sparrows Point Industrial Track.
Vermont Rail System's "Solar Express" heads south at Flynn Avenue in Burlington after solar eclipse festivities wrapped up on the afternoon of April 8th, 2024. Leading the way down towards Rutland was VTR 313, an EMD GP40FH-2 which used to belong to New Jersey Transit. This train certainly made it to Rutland far before anyone driving back home in the biblical backlog of traffic, that's for sure. I believe it took me about two hours to get fifteen miles outside of Burlington on my way back south.
AMTK SDP40Fs 644 & 608 are backing Amtrak's S/B train #91, the Silver Star, onto the Chessie System at Bayview Tower (above GG1-909). Once on Chessie System tracks, the 644 & 608 will haul the train to Washington's Union Station via Chessie System's Washington Sub.
Often when I'm busy with my Telescope, I put an additional DSLR on a tripod, and just point and shoot a sequence of unassisted photos.
About this image:
This image consists of 105 x 5 sec. ISO 3200 stacked exposures of a section of the Carina-Sagittarius Arm of our Milky Way Galaxy (with the "bright yellow" Planet Mars visible from our Solar System's perspective in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way).
The image was photographed with a Nikon D750 and 10mm-20mm Sigma Lens (in dark rural skies of the Northern Cape Province in South Africa).
About the Milky Way:
The Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to have over 400 billion stars. Stars are "suns", and just like in our Solar System, many of the stars have planets and moons. Our sun is a middle aged Yellow Dwarf star, located in the Orion Arm (or Orion Spur) of the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s a minor side spiral arm, located between two larger arms of the Milky Way Galaxy's spiral. The Milky Way is merely one mid-sized barred spiral Galaxy, amongst over 100 billion other Galaxies in the observable Universe.
When we look up at the night sky from Earth, we see a glimpse of the Carina-Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. It takes about 250 million years for the Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms to complete one rotation.
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home." - Carl Sagan.
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Nikon D750.
Sigma 10-20mm Lens.
Manfrotto 055PRO Tripod.
Manfrotto 322RC2 Horizontal Grip Action Ball Head.
Hahnel Giga T Pro II 2.4GHz Wireless Remote for Nikon.
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For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Shoemaker Impact Structure (formerly known as Teague Ring) in Western Australia.
Located around 100 km northeast of the small town Wiluna, the Shoemaker Impact Structure was renamed in honour of Eugene Shoemaker, a planetary geologist and pioneer in impact crater studies.
The almost circular shape of the Shoemaker impact site, visible in the bottom-right of the image, is approximately 30 km in diameter and is defined by concentric rings formed in sedimentary rocks (seen in dark brown). The precise age of the impact is unknown, but is estimated to be between 1000 and 600 million years ago – making it Australia’s oldest impact crater.
This false-colour image was processed by selecting spectral bands that can be used for classifying geological features, allowing us to clearly identify the concentric rings in the image. The light blue areas are saline and ephemeral lakes including Nabberu, Teague, Shoemaker and other smaller ponds.
Asteroid Day, the UN-endorsed global awareness campaign is back on 30 June with an exciting 5-hour live broadcast from 18:00 CET. With the help of leading experts, Asteroid Day Co-founder Dr. Brian May and the most engaging voices in science communications from around the world, the five hour programme will bring the solar system’s smallest worlds to vivid life for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. For more information, visit ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Coal mining has been a huge part of Svalbard's past. There were mines up in the mountains all around Longyearbyen. The mined coal was trasported to the harbor by these gravity powered cableway buckets. While no longer used, the system's towers, cables, and buckets are everywhere.
CSX GP40-2 #6244 works hard to get its short but heavy train up to the timetable speed of 25 mph as local Y106 heads east out of Grand Rapids along Buchanann Ave. 6244 was built as B&O #4345, 1 of Chessie System's vast fleet of nearly 350 such units purchased in the 1970s and 1980s. At right is the site of the former Pere Marquette 9th Ave coach yard, which crews have recently been starting to clear out. As of now, I'm not sure what CSX's plans are for that property, but I always thought it would make a good spot for a transloading operation.
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New results from NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter suggest our solar system's largest planet is home to what's called "shallow lightning." An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning originates from clouds containing an ammonia-water solution, whereas lightning on Earth originates from water clouds.
Other new findings suggest the violent thunderstorms for which the gas giant is known may form slushy ammonia-rich hailstones Juno's science team calls "mushballs"; they theorize that mushballs essentially kidnap ammonia and water in the upper atmosphere and carry them into the depths of Jupiter's atmosphere.
In the center of this JunoCam image, small, bright "pop-up" clouds seen rise above the surrounding features. Clouds like these are thought to be the tops of violent thunderstorms responsible for shallow lighting.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY
Over a year ago, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by a strange object at the edge of our solar system. Just a hazy form resembling a snowman on the day of the spacecraft’s closest approach, Arrokoth is now taking shape to be a fascinating and revelatory member of the region of the solar system beyond Neptune's orbit known as the Kuiper Belt. Untouched by the usual turmoil and impacts of most small objects, this pristinely preserved world could tell us about the earliest years of our solar system's formation.
New research published in a series of papers in Science begins to reveal Arrokoth's mysteries, including its formation, geography, composition, various basic properties and more. Scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley worked alongside researchers from across the world to provide a comprehensive first look at this object.
Also known as MU69, the object consists of two lobes connected by a thin "neck" and has days that run almost 16 hours, while a full orbit around the solar system takes 298 years. Its orbit lies 44 times further away from the Sun than our own Earth, and based on the craters we see across its surface, Arrokoth is estimated to be about 4 billion years old.
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko
Amtrak P30CH-706 is parked for the night in Chessie System's Riverside Shops facility. It was built for AMTK in 8-75. Unfortunately, I don't recall why it was there, but I think it may have had something to do with a derailment on the Northeast Corridor in the tunnel under North Avenue.
Two Magellanic Clouds and huge G-shaped red emission of Gum Nebula are in the frame.
The Magellanic Clouds were visible easily at the dark site, but they were lower than south pole in May. The right lower corner was around 8 degree above horizon at the end of the session, and stars floated and moved while exposure due to refraction effect of thick layer of air.
A researcher of galactic astronomy asked me something on the image of Messier 31, and he kindly suggested that something is visible in this Magellanic Clouds photo. I dug blue channel of the photo deeper, until I got some traces of Magellanic Bridge.
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"The Magellanic System's Interactive Formations" by Putman ME 2000
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Equipment: Zeiss Distagon 21mmF2.8 for Contax Yashica and EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san on EM-200 temma 2Jr. autoguided with FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD Guiding by Craig Stark
Exposure: 3 times x 1,680 seconds, 1 x 900 sec, 4 x 240 sec, and 4 x 60 seconds at F5.6 and ISO 1,600
Location: 1,200 feet above sea level at 30 25 22S 116 58 05E on Petruder Rock near Dalwallinu in Western Australia
"There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet," Kynes said. "You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple : to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life-- all life--is in the service of life. Necessary nutrient are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filed with relationships and relationships within relationships.
(The Ecology of Dune by Frank Herbert)
On July 11, the Juno spacecraft once again swung near the turbulent Jovian cloud tops. On its seventh orbital closest approach this perijove passage brought Juno within 3,500 kilometers of the Solar System's largest planetary atmosphere. Near perijove the rotating JunoCam was able to record this stunning, clear view of one of Jupiter's signature vortices. About 8,000 kilometers in diameter, the anticyclonic storm system was spotted in Jupiter's North North Temperate Zone in the 1990s. That makes it about half the size of an older and better known Jovian anticyclone, the Great Red Spot, but only a little smaller than planet Earth. At times taking on reddish hues, the enormous storm system is fondly known as a North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran
Pushkinskaya (Russian: Пу́шкинская) is a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It first opened on 30 April 1956, under the original name of "Vitebskiy vokzal".
There is a monument in the station dedicated to the poet Alexander Pushkin sculpted by Mikhail Anikushin. This station was the first USSR metro station with memorial located under the ground.
The Metro system exhibits many typical Soviet designs and features exquisite decorations and artwork making it one of the most attractive and elegant metros in the world. Due to the city's unique geology, the Saint Petersburg Metro is one of the deepest metro systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of all the stations. The system's deepest station, Admiralteyskaya, is 86 metres below ground. Serving about 2 million passengers daily, it is also the 19th busiest metro system in the world.
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Die Metro Sankt Petersburg ist die U-Bahn der russischen Millionenstadt Sankt Petersburg und zugleich eines der tiefst gelegenen U-Bahn-Systeme der Welt. Die erste Linie wurde am 15. November 1955 eröffnet. Zu Zeiten der Sowjetunion hieß sie nach dem damaligen Namen der Stadt Metro Leningrad. Das Metronetz besteht im Jahr 2013 aus fünf Linien mit insgesamt 113,6 km Streckenlänge und 67 Stationen. Täglich werden 2,8 Millionen und jährlich 1,02 Milliarden Fahrgäste befördert. Die Petersburger Metro gilt als eine der architektonisch schönsten der Welt.
Das Foto zeigt die Station "Pushkinskaya", durch die schlechten Lichtverhältnisse leider nicht in bester Qualität.
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I chose the title for today’s photo because of how blessed I feel to be able to photograph scenes like this, and for the opportunities that I get to try to pass on that thrill to others.
The time was a little after 4:15 am, one Saturday morning in July, as I sat on the sand at the edge of Tuross Lake (Australia), taking in the serenity and doing my best to capture the scene with my camera, to enjoy again when I like.
Bioluminescent marine organisms in the shallow, sandy water gave away their positions by their telltale blue glow, seen as a stripe near the bottom of my photo. The king of all planets, the gas-giant Jupiter makes two appearances in this image, dominating the sky with its bright orb, as well by its stretched reflection atop the lake. The Milky Way’s stars, nebulae, gas clouds and dust lanes stain the sky above the horizon as well as the water below, with each apparition heading for the other as the Earth turned on its axis. Above and to the right of Jupiter, you can see our Solar System’s next-biggest planet, Saturn, standing out against the stars.
To create the image that you’re viewing, I shot nine overlapping photos that I then stitched together in software. For each of those original individual images, I used a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.8, with an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
For Station Saturday here is another from this gloomy but fun summer chase.
On a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR) at MP L85.9 on WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision, the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction.
They are passing the nicely restored circa 1900 Boston and Maine depot which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 and is now a private residence. The full history can be found online if you download the National Register of Historic Places registration form here:
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/214a46de-fe05-41f2-af2a-bc0...
Fairlee, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024
In the 23rd century, Formula Zero-Gravity (FZG) is the Sol system’s biggest spectator sport and Nightshade one of its rising stars. Now the enigmatic black-clad driver joins Team Mercedes-Benz and its sponsor John Player - the planet’s leading supplier of legal stimulants - in a new bid to conquer the circuit and claim the FZG Trophy. Will 2248 prove to be his breakthrough season?
Two tails of dust ejected from the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system are seen in new images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, documenting the lingering aftermath of the NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact on 27 September 2022 at 01:14 CEST. Current data show that DART shortened Dimorphos’ original 11 hour and 55 minute orbit around Didymos by about 32 minutes.
Repeated observations from Hubble over the last several weeks have allowed scientists to present a more complete picture of how the system’s debris cloud has evolved over time. The observations show that the ejected material, or “ejecta,” has expanded and faded in brightness as time went on after impact, largely as expected. The twin tail is an unexpected development, although similar behavior is commonly seen in comets and active asteroids. The Hubble observations provide the best-quality image of the double-tail to date.
Following impact, Hubble made 18 observations of the system. Imagery indicates the second tail formed between 2-8 October 2022.
In this image, DART impacted the Didymos-Dimorphos system from the 10 o’clock direction.
The relationship between the comet-like tail and other ejecta features seen at various times in images from Hubble and other telescopes is still unclear, and is something the Investigation Team is currently working to understand. The northern tail is newly developed. In the coming months, scientists will be taking a closer look at the data from Hubble to determine how the second tail developed. There are a number of possible scenarios the team will investigate.
Credits: NASA, ESA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI), Joe Depasquale (STScI)
Here's a belated Station Saturday offering.
On a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR). The train is at about MP L77 on modern day WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision approaching the Waits River Road crossing. This is the former Boston and Maine Conn River Line main which dates from 1848 when the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad built north from White River Junction.
I'm not sure when the structure at left was built, but it is one of many surviving wooden depots along this route, in fact two still stand in this town alone! Prior to 1953 this was known as Piermont station (named for the the town in New Hampshire across the river) and Bradford station was 1.2 miles to the north. In July of that year the Bradford station was retired and sold, and this little station was renamed Bradford and would retain passenger service until 1965. Long since sold into private hands it appears to presently be used as office space.
To learn much more history see the lengthy caption with this post: flic.kr/p/2q6eXDS
Bradford, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024
Teesside Municipal Transport T291, a former Reading trolleybus acquired by TMT in 1968.
A typical murky Teesside day, the electric bus is pictured 'booms down' parked outside of Cargo Fleet Depot in the last months of trolleybus operation. With the system's closure just months away, the trolleybus fleet was beginning to look tired.
Happily, the T291 survives today, and is currently to be found at the industrial museum of the North East that is Beamish.
Another image from the camera of the late David Atkinson.
Photo - Early weeks of 1971.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called "disk instability."
The new world under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas with distinct spiral structure swirling around surrounding a young star that’s estimated to be around 2 million years old. That's about the age of our solar system when planet formation was underway. (The solar system's age is currently 4.6 billion years.)
Researchers were able to directly image newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and its Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS).
In the top right, Hubble’s NICMOS image captured in 2007 shows AB Aurigae b in a due south position compared to its host star, which is covered by the instrument’s coronagraph. The image captured in 2021 by STIS shows the protoplanet has moved in a counterclockwise motion over time.
Credits: NASA, ESA, T. Currie (Subaru Telescope, Eureka Scientific Inc.), A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
ODC 1 ~ Emotional Resonance for 07.04.13
Day 186 ~ 365: the 2013 edition
In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others. Frequencies at which the response amplitude is a relative maximum are known as the system's resonant frequencies, or resonance frequencies. At these frequencies, even small periodic driving forces can produce large amplitude oscillations, because the system stores vibrational energy.
The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a hot fire test, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The four RS-25 engines fired for a little more than one minute and generated 1.6 million pounds of thrust. The hot fire is part of the Green Run test series, a comprehensive assessment of the Space Launch System’s core stage prior to launching the Artemis I mission to the Moon.
Credit: NASA
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New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. Hubble’s new Jupiter maps were used to create this Ultra HD animation.
These new maps and spinning globes of Jupiter were made from observations performed with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They are the first products to come from a program to study the solar system’s outer planets – Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and, later, Saturn – each year using Hubble. The observations are designed to capture a broad range of features, including winds, clouds, storms and atmospheric chemistry. These annual studies will help current and future scientists see how these giant worlds change over time.
Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of California at Berkeley produced two global maps of Jupiter from the observations, which were made using Hubble’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3.
The two maps represent nearly back-to-back rotations of the planet, making it possible to determine the speeds of Jupiter’s winds. Already, the images have revealed a rare wave just north of the planet’s equator and a unique filament-like feature in the core of the Great Red Spot that had not been seen previously.
In addition, the new images confirm that the Great Red Spot continues to shrink and become more circular, as it has been doing for years. The long axis of this characteristic storm is about 150 miles (240 kilometers) shorter now than it was in 2014. Recently, the storm had been shrinking at a faster-than-usual rate, but the latest change is consistent with the long-term trend.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/hubble-s-planetary-por...
Credits: NASA/ESA/Goddard/UCBerkeley/JPL-Caltech/STScI
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The comet has over the past weeks fragmented and not dispersed and almost gone. It appears headless with just a little tail remaining, This often happens with comets, a passage near the Sun heats the comet and causes the gases to expand disrupting the comet over time so that it is gradually destroyed adding to all the little particles in the Solar System's space. iTelescope T11, a large 20 inch Planewave telescope.
On a rain soaked afternoon Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad train NPWJ (Newport to White River Junction) is southbound with two cars and two company red EMD GP38-2s, CLP 204 (blt. Oct. 1973 as SCL 528) and VTR 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the VTR). The train is at about MP L63.3 on modern day WACR's Connecticut River Division Lyndonville Subdivision passing a log home which sits almost exactly where the Wells River passenger station once stood. Alas the last passenger train called in 1965 and the century old depot was burned by arsonists in 1974.
The Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad arrived here in 1848 from White River Junction to the south and then built north on to St. Johnsbury two years later, finally reaching Canada in 1867. It operated independently until 1887 when it was merged into the connecting Connecticut River Railroad which itself was swallowed up by the Boston and Maine in 1893. In 1926 the B&M leased the line from Newport to this point to the Canadian Pacific which ultimately bought it outright in 1946. If interested here's a cool article from a century ago about that lease which was newsworthy enough to make the New York Times!
www.nytimes.com/1926/06/01/archives/cpr-gets-new-line-acq...
Here's another excellent history that is worth a read to piece all this together:
larrycoffin.blogspot.com/2009/03/1848-arrival-of-railroad...
The train has just reached what would have been the southernmost extent of CP territory and is now on former B&M rails. The weedgrown stub at right was once the upper Conn River Mainline (MP 163.5 as measured from Springfield, MA) and the rails lead to the bridge over the Connecticut River into Woodsville, New Hampshire and on to the paper mills towns of Berlin and Groveton, the northernmost points on the B&M system after 1926. Alas the bridge is now bereft of trackage and the mainline to Littleton is just a dirt trail, with the last train having been operated by shortline New Hampshire and Vermont in 1995 and the rails lifted by the end of the decade.
The CPR had been operating in the state of Vermont for 115 years when they finally retrenched in 1996 and sold the Newport and Lyndonville Subs to Iron Roads Railways which created the new Northern Vermont Railway which took over on September 28th of that year. The Iron Roads system was bankrupt within a half dozen years and the NV ceased to exist with the Lyndonville Sub and the former Boston and Maine Conn River Mainline between Newport and White River Junction being purchased by the State of Vermont and contracted to Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad Subsidiary. The WACR is now at the two decade mark operating the 103 mile line while the Newport Sub north into Canada passed to succesors Montreal, Maine and Atlantic and then Central Maine and Quebec until remarkably returning to the CP fold in 2020 when they purchased the CMQ.
Wells River
Town of Newbury, Vermont
Saturday June 22, 2024
The Canadian Pacific Railway had been operating in the state of Vermont for 115 years when they finally retrenched in 1996 and sold the Newport and Lyndonville Subs to Iron Roads Railways which created the new Northern Vermont Railway which took over on September 28th of that year. The Iron Roads system was bankrupt within a half dozen years and the NV ceased to exist with the Lyndonville Sub and the former Boston and Maine Conn River Mainline between Newport and White River Junction being purchased by the State of Vermont and contracted to Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad Subsidiary. The WACR is now at the two decade mark operating the 103 mile line while the Newport Sub north into Canada passed to succesors Montreal, Maine and Atlantic and then Central Maine and Quebec until remarkably returning to the CP fold in 2020 when they purchased the CMQ.
Recently VRS and CP have been pooling power, with one unit from each running thru between White River Junction, VT and Farnham, QC on an up and back every other day schedule. This harkens back to the B&M pool power days so with a bit of imagination one can pretend this is train 904 headed down from Newport to hand off to the B&M.
CPKC GP20C-ECO 2280 and VTR GP38-2 209 lead train NPWJ south past a small farm near MP L42 a couple miles north of St. Johnsbury Yard as they follow the Passumpsic River toward its confluence with the mighty Connecticut.
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont
Friday August 11, 2023
Ex. NVS # 126 from Schwerin arrived in Almaty in 2004 in the years of the system's slight revival after the 90s. As all other Schweriners, it contained a second cabless twin car. The latter was in service until 2006 and 1027 was the last of the operating multiple-units here. The head car was running through the next years until the arrival of ex-Berliners in 2013.
[AET / АЭТ] Tatra T3DC # 1027
Baitursynov koshesi, Almaty, KZ 🇰🇿
San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) PCC car 1057 is seen stopped for a break on the Embarcadero. The car is painted in a Cincinnati Street Railway scheme worn by similar cars prior to the system's abandonment in 1952. The car was originally built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1948 as Philadelphia Transportation Co. car 2138, and has been restored/rebuilt twice since being acquired by Muni in 1992.
An unlikely trio of units brings a northbound NRHS excursion over the Copper Creek Viaduct at Speers Ferry. The lead unit is a privately-owned F7A, painted in ACL purple and silver and lettered for the Charleston and Western Carolina. The next unit is an ex-Clinchfield F7B, Seaboard System's 119. But the last unit is a real gem: the late Glen Monhart's ACL E3, number 501. The old slant nosed EMC unit is now in the collection of the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, and it was a featured subject at the "Streamliners" event earlier this year.
Redwood Trail, Spring Morning. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Lush spring vegetation along a trail through coastal redwood forest, Northern California.
Early one June morning this year we parked the car and strolled along a trail into a coast redwood grove that is close enough to the Pacific that you pass people hiking to the water and you encounter fog forming over the coast hills. Not all redwood forests are this moist, but here the conditions create especially lush growth, and on this morning the drifting fog softened the light and muted more distant subjects, though it still had a bit of a directional quality.
On this visit I thought a lot about the difference between what the camera records and what the eye and mind see in the redwoods. When opening files from photography in the redwoods, the colors often seem more dull than the memory. Several possible explanations exist, but I’ve long had an idea about how our visual system accommodates different kinds of lighting, essentially normalizing them in ways that aren’t captured by the camera. This time I made a point of stopping and thinking long and hard about the way the colors looked to me while walking through the forest, and I realized that our visual system’s normalization process compensates for the bluish light and tells us that the colors are warmer than they objectively are. To my mind, it is more important that a photograph express what I saw in the place than it is that it achieve some standard of objective color balance that essentially lies about what I experienced… and what you see here is true to my experience in the redwoods.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
In serviciu de linie pe ruta Praha - Budapest si retur.
In mainline service on the Praha to Budapest and return.
Budapest Nyugati,
18.10.2024
Since its inception in 1953, Memorial Healthcare System has been a leader in providing high-quality healthcare services to South Florida residents. Moving health forward to meet the needs of the community, Memorial is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation and highly regarded for its exceptional patient- and family-centered care that creates the Memorial experience. Memorial's patient, physician and employee satisfaction rates are some of the most admired in the country, and the system is recognized as a national leader in quality healthcare.
Memorial Regional Hospital is the flagship facility of the healthcare system and is one of the largest hospitals in Florida.
Memorial Regional Hospital offers extensive and diverse health care services that include Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute featuring renowned surgeons, Memorial Cancer Institute treating more inpatients than any other in Broward County, and Memorial Neuroscience Institute providing innovative technology and world-class physicians.
Memorial Regional Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital South are both located in Hollywood, Florida, and offer our community a variety of medical and surgical services. Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial provides a comprehensive array of pediatric services and is the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital Pembroke serve the communities of western Broward County and others in South Florida. Memorial Home Health Services, Memorial Manor nursing home and a variety of ancillary healthcare facilities round out the system's wide-ranging health services.
Memorial has a reputation as one of Florida's leading healthcare systems and is supported by a distinguished medical staff. In fact, the vast majority of physicians are board certified, or board qualified in their specialties and have been trained at many of the nation's finest medical schools and hospitals. Because of its distinguished medical staff and services, Memorial moves health forward for patients from South Florida and beyond.
As Memorial continues to lead in providing the next level of healthcare, many prestigious awards have been earned throughout the system. The accolades include Modern Healthcare magazine's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Florida Trend magazine's Best Companies to Work for in Florida, 100 Top Hospitals, Consumer Choice Award, Best-Run Hospital, Best Nursing Staff, Best Pediatric Hospital and Best Maternity Hospital. The health care system was also honored by the American Hospital Association with the "Living the Vision" award and the "Foster G. McGaw" award for which Memorial was selected from more than 5,000 hospitals as the national model for improving the health of the community.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
web.bcpa.net/BcpaClient/#/Record-Search
bcpa.net/RecInfo.asp?URL_Folio=514013140010
www.mhs.net/locations/memorial-west
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Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby. The images of the Great Red Spot were downlinked from the spacecraft’s memory on Tuesday and placed on the mission’s JunoCam website Wednesday morning.
This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Jason Major using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major
Since its inception in 1953, Memorial Healthcare System has been a leader in providing high-quality healthcare services to South Florida residents. Moving health forward to meet the needs of the community, Memorial is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation and highly regarded for its exceptional patient- and family-centered care that creates the Memorial experience. Memorial's patient, physician and employee satisfaction rates are some of the most admired in the country, and the system is recognized as a national leader in quality healthcare.
Memorial Regional Hospital is the flagship facility of the healthcare system and is one of the largest hospitals in Florida.
Memorial Regional Hospital offers extensive and diverse health care services that include Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute featuring renowned surgeons, Memorial Cancer Institute treating more inpatients than any other in Broward County, and Memorial Neuroscience Institute providing innovative technology and world-class physicians.
Memorial Regional Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital South are both located in Hollywood, Florida, and offer our community a variety of medical and surgical services. Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial provides a comprehensive array of pediatric services and is the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital Pembroke serve the communities of western Broward County and others in South Florida. Memorial Home Health Services, Memorial Manor nursing home and a variety of ancillary healthcare facilities round out the system's wide-ranging health services.
Memorial has a reputation as one of Florida's leading healthcare systems and is supported by a distinguished medical staff. In fact, the vast majority of physicians are board certified, or board qualified in their specialties and have been trained at many of the nation's finest medical schools and hospitals. Because of its distinguished medical staff and services, Memorial moves health forward for patients from South Florida and beyond.
As Memorial continues to lead in providing the next level of healthcare, many prestigious awards have been earned throughout the system. The accolades include Modern Healthcare magazine's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Florida Trend magazine's Best Companies to Work for in Florida, 100 Top Hospitals, Consumer Choice Award, Best-Run Hospital, Best Nursing Staff, Best Pediatric Hospital and Best Maternity Hospital. The health care system was also honored by the American Hospital Association with the "Living the Vision" award and the "Foster G. McGaw" award for which Memorial was selected from more than 5,000 hospitals as the national model for improving the health of the community.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
web.bcpa.net/BcpaClient/#/Record-Search
bcpa.net/RecInfo.asp?URL_Folio=514013140010
www.mhs.net/locations/memorial-west
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
GMCR GP9 804 and VTR GP40-2 307 are at MP 4.8 on Washington County Railroad's M&B Division rolling beside the Stevens Branch of the Winooski River with a handful of empty gons destined for the top of The Hill at Websterville for loadout at Northeast Materials granite quarry.
The particular rails this train is on are ex CV, first laid in 1875 when the 1849 branch into the capital city was extended to Barre. In 1957 Sam Pinsly's Montpelier & Barre purchased them and he quickly consolidated the parallel CV and old Montpelier & Wells River (later Barre & Chelsea) routes between this point at Barre. The state purchased these rails in 1980 when the M&B petitioned for abandonment and they've had multiple contract operators over the years until finally setting on Vermont Rail System's Washington County Subsidiary about two decades ago.
Berlin, Vermont
Friday April 24, 2020
European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton coming face to the face with the atomic clocks at the heart of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system.
On Tuesday 7 September ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher took Commissioner Breton on a tour of ESA’s European Space Technology and Research Centre, ESTEC, at Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
Seen from left to right: Internal Market Cabinet Member Fabrice Comptour; ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher; Commissioner Breton and Andrea Contellessa, heading ESA’s Galileo Space Segment Management Office.
They looked in at ESTEC’s Navigation Laboratory, which includes the complete navigation module of a Galileo satellite, kept in cleanroom conditions for technical experiments and trouble shooting.
On the left side sits Galileo’s passive hydrogen maser atomic clock, sufficiently accurate that it would lose only one second over three million years. To the right is a rubidium atomic clock, which would only lose three seconds in one million years. Each satellite carries two each of these two clock types for maximum redundancy.
Commissioner Breton also inspected the six Galileo ‘Batch 3’ satellites currently being tested for space at ESTEC’s Test Centre, the largest satellite test facility in Europe. Two of these Galileo satellites are due for launch later this year.
About Galileo
The Galileo system is operated by the EU Agency for the Space Programme, EUSPA, based in Prague. ESA and EUSPA are partnering on respectively the development and operations of Galileo.
ESA is in charge of the design, development, procurement and qualification of Galileo satellites and their associated ground infrastructure on behalf of the European Union, the system’s owner.
Credits: ESA-G. Porter
A quick reminder between archive picture sets that I live in Thailand now and I shall bring you a couple more pictures of my new life before taking you back in time to the UK.
Bangkok railway station (Thai: สถานีรถไฟกรุงเทพ), unofficially known as Hua Lamphong station (Thai: สถานีหัวลำโพง), is the main railway station in Bangkok, Thailand. It is in the center of the city in the Pathum Wan District, and is operated by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).
The station was opened on 25 June 1916 after six years of construction. The site of the railway station was previously occupied by the national railway's maintenance centre, which moved to Makkasan in June 1910. At the nearby site of the previous railway station a pillar commemorates the inauguration of the Thai railway network in 1897.
The station was built in an Italian Neo-Renaissance-style, with decorated wooden roofs and stained glass windows. The architecture is attributed to Turin-born Mario Tamagno, who with countryman Annibale Rigotti (1870–1968) was also responsible for the design of several other early 20th century public buildings in Bangkok. The pair designed Bang Khun Phrom Palace (1906), Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in the Royal Plaza (1907–15) and Suan Kularb Residential Hall and Throne Hall in Dusit Garden, among other buildings.
There are 14 platforms, 26 ticket booths, and two electric display boards. Hua Lamphong serves over 130 trains and approximately 60,000 passengers each day. Since 2004 the station has been connected by an underground passage to the MRT (Metropolitan Rapid Transit) subway system's Hua Lamphong MRT Station.
The station is also a terminus of the Eastern and Oriental Express luxury trains.
The station is scheduled to be closed in 2019, when it will be converted into a museum. The State Railway of Thailand plans to move Bangkok's central station to Bang Sue Central Station.
Bridgepixing the Navajo Bridge, built 1929, over the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, east of the Grand Canyon. This historic bridge (on the right) is now a pedestrian only Footbridge after its twin (on the left) was built in 1995. Located near the site of the historic Lee's Ferry, this bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Navajo Bridge crosses the Colorado River's Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry in the U.S. state of Arizona. Apart from the Glen Canyon Bridge a few miles upstream at Page, Arizona, it is the only roadway crossing of the river and the Grand Canyon for nearly 1000 km (600 mi). Spanning Marble Canyon, the bridge carries northbound travelers to southern Utah and to the otherwise inaccessible portions of Arizona north of the Colorado River, such as the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Prior to the construction of the first Navajo Bridge, the only river crossing from Arizona to Utah was at nearby Lee's Ferry, where the canyon walls are low and getting vehicles onto the water is relatively convenient. The ferry offered only unreliable service, however, as adverse weather and flooding regularly prevented its operation.
Construction of the original Navajo Bridge began in 1927, and the bridge opened to traffic in 1929. It was paid for by the nascent Arizona State Highway Commission (now the Arizona Department of Transportation) in cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, as the eastern landing is on the Navajo Nation. The steel spandrel bridge design was constructed by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company. The bridge is 834 feet in length, with a maximum height of 467 feet from the canyon floor. Its roadway offers an 18 foot surface width with a load capacity of 22.5 tons (although the posted legal weight limit was 40 tons). During the design phase, a wider roadway was considered, but ultimately rejected, as it would have required a costly third arch to be added to the design, and the vehicles of the time did not necessitate the wider road.
In 1990, however, it was decided that the current traffic flow was too great for the original bridge, and that a new solution was needed. The sharp corners in the roadway on each side of the bridge's approach had become a safety hazard due to low visibility, and the deficiency in the original design's width and load capacity specifications were becoming problematic. The bridge had also become part of the US Federal Highway System's Route 89ALT, and it did not meet the required standards of such a road.
Deciding on a solution was difficult, due to the many local interests. Issues included preservation of sacred Navajo land, endangered plant species in Marble Canyon, and the possibility of construction pollution entering the river. The original proposal called for merely widening and fortifying the bridge, but this was ultimately rejected since this could not possibly bring it up to current federal highway standards. Replacement was then the only option, and it was eventually decided to entirely discontinue automobile use of the original bridge. A new bridge would be built immediately next to the original and have a considerably similar visual appearance, but would conform to modern highway codes.
The new steel arch bridge was commissioned by the Arizona Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, and was completed in September of 1995, at a cost of approximately $15 million dollars.
The original Navajo Bridge is still open to pedestrian and equestrian use, and an interpretive center has been constructed nearby to showcase the historical nature of the bridge and early crossing of the Colorado River. The original bridge has been designated as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
(Wikipedia)
Continuing to fill in shots from this chase, here is another random grab shot from out in the woods that is unremarkable but part of the trip diary. Washington County Railroad's (VRS) train NPWJ from Newport to White River Junction is working south thru the the wild and beautiful Northeast Kingdom as they approach Bugbee Crossing at about MP 29.7.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had been operating in the state of Vermont for 115 years when they finally retrenched in 1996 and sold the Newport and Lyndonville Subs to Iron Roads Railways which created the new Northern Vermont Railway which took over on September 28th of that year. The Iron Roads system was bankrupt within a half dozen years and the NV ceased to exist with the Lyndonville Sub and the former Boston and Maine Conn River Mainline between Newport and White River Junction being purchased by the State of Vermont and contracted to Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad Subsidiary. The WACR is now at the two decade mark operating the 103 mile line while the Newport Sub north into Canada passed to succesors Montreal, Maine and Atlantic and then Central Maine and Quebec until remarkably returning to the CP fold in 2020 when they purchased the CMQ
Recently VRS and CP have been pooling power, with one unit from each running thru between White River Junction, VT and Farnham, QC on an up and back every other day schedule. This harkens back to the B&M pool power days so with a bit of imagination one can pretend this is train 904 headed down from Newport to hand off to the B&M.
Burke, Vermont
Friday August 11, 2023