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Here's a recent addition to my minidress collection! This one is a golden wet look lycra spandex minidress with mesh shoulders and back that I've matched up with my black lurex fishnet hose and my fabulous platform open toe pumps with their 5½ stiletto heels.
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Here's another from our epic high speed westbound chase of Montana Rail Link’s Laurel Bozeman freight (LAUBOZ) which makes a 250 mile round trip turn between its namesake yards five days a week. Knowing that the classic Northern Pacific era searchlight signals will all be gone soon with the ongoing progress toward PTC installation we made a concerted effort to shoot them where ever we could.
Here is one with a nice bonus prop that we made with only seconds to spare as we pulled up here to the North 3rd Street crossing at MP 40.3 on MRL's 2nd Subdivision mainline. Bailing out of the car with the gates already down I somehow managed to frame up both key props and despite being stuck on the 'dark side' this is one of my favorites from this chase. Always a lover of historic elements, in addition to the unmolested searchlight guarding the west end of the 9231 ft siding here this small town that serves as the seat of Stillwater County still proudly has its original Northern Pacific wooden passenger station that may date all the way to 1882 only a year after the road reached the settlement. To see a pic of the depot in the early 20th century click here: www.railroads-of-montana.com/Photos/Northern%20Pacific/Co... The structure survives well kept and still owned by the railroad as evidence by the white paint trimmmed in MRL company blue.
Unopposed the whole way, this train just flew on clear blocks for 100 miles excepting one brief pause to get past a signal gang at Park City working to kill off the the searchlights. It was a challenge at times trying to keep up with the pair of rebuild SD40-2XRs MRL 263 and 250. The former was originally built as a straight SD40 in Apr. 1966 as CNW 891 and the latter as an SD40-2 in Apr. 1974 as BN 6377.
Countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence and if you care to learn more download this great set courtesy of Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TRN-MRL.pdf
Columbus, Montana
Wednesday September 7, 2022
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley works thru Abergavenny, passing the attractive signals and box, with Saphos Trains Welsh Marches Express on 31 August 2023.
There you lie now in your two small rooms, you dear, great, good man. I once wrote to you, “My heart will always fly to you like a bird, from any place on earth, and it will surely find you.” I had a thousand things to ask you and to learn from you; now I will have to do everything by myself. But I feel so strong that I’m sure I’ll manage. What energies I possess have been set free inside me. You taught me to speak the name of God without embarrassment. You were the mediator between God and me, and now you, the mediator, have gone, and my path leads straight to God. It is right that it should be so. And I shall be the mediator for any other soul I can reach. (ET 2002, 516)
-Etty Hillesum
A Iowa Northern freight train rolls thru the circa 1899 Pratt Truss bridge on the Canadian National mainline thru Cedar Falls, Iowa. In less than a mile it will go thru Cedar Falls Jct and return to home rails for its journey North. The areas first snowfall blankets the ground, and will be gone in 3 days time.
Note, I am standing on a river levee paralleling the tracks and at least 15' from the rails.
We just got a new skylight, installed by my sweet husband (see previous posted photo)...and last night, with a full moon, we saw this thru the window!
KLIF, The Mighty 1190, on the AM Dial, was located here in Dallas Texas. The Album pictured is one of Several albums released with KLIFs ID on it. Take note on the DJs pictured. Some of the BEST DJs came from KLIF! There was Mike Seldon, One of MY Favorites!,, Cuzzin' Linnie, another Fave!,, Along with Dave Ambrose, Jim Taber, Mike O'Shea, Charlie Murphy, Paxton Mills, Rod Roddy, of the PRICE IS RIGHT Fame, Ken Dowe, Jimmy Rabbit & Russ "The Wierd Beard" Knight! ALL which were GREAT!! Gordon McClendon & Father, B.R. McClendon were the owners. One of the First Top 40 Stations!! It started in the Cliff Towers located on Colorada Blvd in Oak Cliff (Dallas) Texas. The station was moved to the location in Downtown Dallas, off of Central at 2100 Jackson Street. For ALOT more information on KLIF, go here to Steve Eberharts' website:.. www.klifhistory.com/ ... and for ALOT of info on the Dallas & Metroplex area radio and TV Stations, go here to Mike Shannons' website:.. www.knus99.com/ ... BOTH are Great websites! I think you'll be totally Entertained!! Tell them Randy Carlisle sent ya...
Photographer & Date of Photo on the Album cover is known at this time.....
Photo (OF The Album) Taken: January 21 2008
Photo Taken (OF The Album) By: Randy A. Carlisle
"Preserving AMERICAs History Thru Photography"
Sep. 26, 2016: One of several vehicles with trees growing out of them at the Solar Living Center near Hopland, California. The Grow Thru Car grove contrasts with the drive-through Redwood trees just up Highway 101. A year ago, the site was purchased and now called the EcuTerra Center. #growthrucars #highway101 #solarlivinginstitute
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15 years after the previous photo I posted WC train 134 rolls thru Garnet with 3017 and 586 leading 52 cars on Jan. 12th, 1997.
Holbrook, Arizona
One thing I noticed a lot while I was in the US was how many drive thrus there are, everything from fast food to ATMs. Quite bizarre to see this drive thru liquor store with all the anti-drink and drive messages we get bombarded with in the UK!
After wrapping up their work at Toray on the Quonset Main the Seaview crew headed light engine over to the other side and down the Davisville Main to the port to pull one outbound load of waste vegetable oil loaded by The Andersons. Seaview Transportation Company's former US Army 80 Tonner, USAX 1667 (GE blt. Oct. 1952) is cutting through the fence and around the sharp curve onto the Bldg. 318 track down at the Port of Davisville where they will pick io the single tank car. The Seaview is the contract operator of the state owned trackage at Quonset Business Park and handles over 8000 cars a year on 7 route miles and 13 track miles of railroad reaching to tidewater on the west side of Narragansett Bay.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 8, 2025
CSXT M426 (Selkirk to Rigby manifest) has a trio of elderly AC4400CWs led by repainted 477 as it rounds the curve and is about to plunge into 600 ft long State Line Tunnel at QB164.8 (as measured from South Station in Boston) on modern day CSXT's busy Berkshire Sub. The first tunnel here was bored through this ridge in the Taconic Hills around 1840 by the Western Railroad of Massachusetts and was joined by another just to its south about 1912 when new owner New York Central System triple tracked the line. When Conrail singled tracked the route in late 1988, the original tunnel was left vacant and all traffic now moves through the south bore beneath my feet.
Canaan, New York
Friday October 25, 2024
The colors you get in the high country are like the painted floors of the desert that I love so much. I did not drive thru this fence, I stopped and took it all in.
Happy Fence Friday everyone and a good weekend ahead.
The Highlands (Scottish Gaelic "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland. The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. Before the 19th century the Highlands was home to a much larger population, but due to a combination of factors including the outlawing of the traditional Highland way of life following the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the infamous Highland Clearances, and mass migration to urban areas during the Industrial Revolution, the area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. (Wikipedia)
Rolling southbound toward the interchange with the Ann Arbor (Watco) at Osmer north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, we find Great Lakes Central train OSTN rolling through the marshlands east of Lakeland - March 7, 2023.
Miraculous connections with other people also demonstrate a spiritual union with God. In particular, God gives religious people the ability to witness what one another experience. He also gives them the gift of knowing consciences, and even the ability to ‘send God’ to others so that they might participate in another’s mystical experience.
-Simone Brosig, “IN THE SECRET OF THE TRINITY”: EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION IN THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTHERN LOW COUNTRIES, pg 171
Each day is more and more difficult to break thru the crowded roads. Abandoned military vehicles talks about a futile effort to stop the zombie apocalypse.
Done on Lindsay Lohan's visit to West Texas.
Part of my Texas Panhandle set.
The sky was gorgeous tonight on our drive home from Tahoe...cell phone capture was all I got of this beauty!
For this week's Steam Sunday here's another current one from my recent trip out to shoot the best steam show in the east, Reading and Northern 2102 on the first of three fall foliage round trips from Reading Outer Station to Jim Thorpe and return.
She is seen here charging thru Nesquehoning at about MP 117 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline, the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Railroad branch built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company. Rsing prominently in the background downtown on Railroad Street can be seen the blue onion domes of St John the Babtist Orthodox Church. The church of Byzantine design was built in 1936 by Andrew Gerber of Scranton who used girders of World War I vintage, and it has no posts or supports under the huge dome and main edifice of the church.
The buildings at left were once the KME fire truck plant which closed in 2022 but has since been purchased by the railroad and is now home to multiple departments and maintenance facilities for on and off track equipment. To learn more check out this article: www.republicanherald.com/news/reading-northern-nesquehoni...
This stout 4-8-4 was built in the Reading Company's own shops in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:
The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.
The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own Shops right in Reading, PA.
Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 5, 2024