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A weathered farmhouse sits under the milky way near Wasco, OR. It was eerie walking around the property in the pitch black over broken boards and wire. It was deadly silent, except for the occasional creaking sound of a nearby windmill being pushed by a light breeze..
Test coach "Iris" RDB 975010 (M79900) and from memory,being used on N.R.N radio testing in the area.
Whats in the back ground?
A multitude of " Departmental " wagons all waiting maintenance under the careful guidance of Mr Gerry Musgrove and his wagon staff.
Seacows, Gunnels,the odd Moda, Oh and the yellow peril !
Taken on 1 ramp, Eastleigh TMD, a picture no longer possible today.
Svema A2SH Film Test*
This little fresh produce barn was doing a booming business on Saturday morning.
It was very overcast and the threat of rain was great but the super soft light help fill the interior with some nice ambient brightness.
*I will expose the next set @320.
For more about films like this and others visit:
www.filmphotographyproject.com
Film: Svema A2SH 35mm B/W, Shot at ISO 400
Processed in Kodak Xtol, stock, 8 min, 15 sec at 68 degrees. 5/5
Camera: Canon EOS A2E, Canon 28/105 f3.5/4.5 USM
Image by: Leslie Lazenby
25 Jul 2014, East side Findlay, OH. Suter's Farm Market Produce Barns.
Rented the Sigma 150-600mm from lens rentals to check out. Don't have it set quite right for my camera your but it shows potential.Seems a tad bit sharper than the Tamron I tried last year. The build quality is head and shoulders above the Tamron but it does have a weight penalty that goes with it. I have it for a couple more days. Will play some more for sure.
Have to admit purely opportunistic and a reason to travel with the camera readily accessible. Came around the corner on Brightside Lane to see 66138 leaving EMR Attercliffe. Managed to park and get camera out to catch the new bridge being tested with a departing scrap train.
Trent Barton ADL Enviro 200 MMC 206 - YY18 TPF is unusually pictured off route in Milton Street, Nottingham on test, being driven by fitters.
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA test train led by GP40MC 1117 in sparkling fresh paint from its recent overhaul at the MBTA's Wareham shop with four cars including two MBB cars still wrapped in CTRail imagery from their time leased for Hartford Line service. They are on the causeway that cuts across Terry Brook Pond at about MP FS 4.9 just north of the Copicut Road grade crossing, but alas it is too brushed in to see the water on either side of the train.
This route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait.
Fortunately both lines were never fully abandoned, and remained active as freight only branch lines served by the New Haven and successors Penn Central, Conrail, and CSXT. In latter decades they saw no more than a lonely local freight two or three days a week and both the Fall River and New Bedford Secondary's track conditions deteriorate until speeds were limited to 10 mph on the two lines that were not even an afterthought in the vast CSXT system. In 2010 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts purchased the two routes totaling 38 miles from the Jacksonville based Class for $21 million as the first step in the long dreamt of plan for a passenger train revival. Concurrent with that deal CSXT turned around and sold its perpetual freight easement to Mass Coastal which since then has provided exclusive freight service on both lines, interchanging with CSXT at Cotley Junction in Taunton. For the past decade the MC dispatched and maintained the lines on behalf of the state while they remained 10 mph branches served a couple times a week.
Finally in 2020 the transformation of the lines began in earnest at a cost to exceed $1 billion and by mid 2023 track and station work was largely completed on the Fall River Secondary include a new Freetown station about 1/2 mile behind me here. The first week of August this year Keolis assumed dispatching responsibilities from Mass Coastal once the new CTC signal system was commissioned and PTC testing and crew qualification trips have been running daily as seen here.
To learn more about the project these links will take you to the state's official sites:
www.mbta.com/projects/south-coast-rail
Freetown, Massachusetts
Friday August 16, 2024
Shot through the window of a moving vehicle so it is not as sharp as it should be. This is the "classic chrome" setting.
Basic Underwater Demolition/Seals students swim 100 meters with bound hands and feet as part of their first-phase swimming test. The test is used as a tool to examine how comfortable each student feels underwater. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Shauntae Hinkle (Released) navy.com/
testing on my new toy, Rolleiflex 2.8F, White Face, Xenotar...unedited.
Film; GP3, cost less than USD$1 per roll!!! (RMB6 per roll)
Test Car 1, ADW150375
Test Car 2, ADB975397
Mentor, ADB975091
Test Car 6, ADB975290
Test Car 10, ADB975814
at RTC, 1987 [Photo used in my book courtesy of Serco]
Haji Lane comes alive after hours - some of the places only open at 4pm and keep crankin' until 1 or 2am - so wandering around in the daytime can be surreal.
This odd mosaic-design pattern on the pillar of an Italian-themed bar resembles the old TV test patterns that would be aired when the station was off-air.
With information overload now the norm and stations broadcasting around the clock, soon the university crowd will have no idea what a test pattern is! If you're interested, check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card