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RD21471. The traverser outside the carriage shed and workshops at the Didcot Railway Centre. This enables the carriages to be moved into or out and takes up far less space than a fan of sidings would do.
While I was at Didcot, I also took some video starring the amazing Steam Railmotor and this is now on my new YouTube Channel. To make viewing easier, I have broken it down into three bite-sized chunks and here are the links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOfqkyMxv_o&t=5s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq4hW5TOTOQ&t=7s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0Aetg603U
Wednesday, 9th September, 2020. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2020.
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On Belgium tour with Camerashy, Cloaked up and Host. Tons of locations, meticulous planning and some well known icons and revisits along the way.
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Liège-Guillemins railway station is the main station of the city of Liège, the third largest city in Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the 3 Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network. The station is used by 36,000 people every day which makes it the tenth busiest station in Belgium.
History
In 1838, only three years after the first continental railway, a line linking Brussels and Ans, in the northern suburbs of Liège, was opened. The first railway station of Liège-Guillemins was inaugurated in May 1842, linking the valley to the upper Ans station. In 1843, the first international railway connection was born, linking Liège to Aachen and Cologne.
The station was modernized and improved in 1882 and in 1905 for the World Fair in Liège. This station was replaced in 1958 by a modern (for that time) one that was used until June 2009, a few months before the opening of the new Calatrava designed station.
New station
The new station by the architect Santiago Calatrava was officially opened on September 18, 2009, with a show by Franco Dragone. It has 9 tracks and 5 platforms (three of 450 m and two of 350 m). All the tracks around the station have been modernized to allow high speed arrival and departure.
The new station is made of steel, glass and white concrete. It includes a monumental arch, 160 metres long and 32 metres high. The building costs were €312 million.
Train services
Liège-Guillemins station is served by InterCity- and InterRegio trains, connecting Liège with all major Belgian cities, as well as several international destinations such as Aachen, Lille, and Maastricht. In addition to the national traffic, Liège-Guillemins station welcomes Thalys and ICE trains, connecting Liège to Brussels, Paris, Aachen, Cologne, and Frankfurt. Two new dedicated high-speed tracks were built: HSL 2 (Brussels-Liège) and HSL 3 (Liège-German border).
A Double Play...for Doubleday?
Hah, well if not for him...for me at least. To those that are even casual students of our National Pastime will know the name Abner Doubleday and the town of Cooperstown. The latter is a quaint upstate New York village beside Otsego Lake that is home of the Baseball Hall of fame. The former is the alleged inventor of the game of baseball in that very town in 1839, hence the choice to locate the hall of fame here in 1937. And while most historians believe the Mills Commision's assertions about Doubleday and Cooperstown are nothing but fiction, the legend still sticks here.
But to railfans there is more than just baseball in Cooperstown. The Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley operates a heritage railroad and museum along the historic line of the same name first opened in 1869. The original road came under D&H ownership in 1903 and was operated as branch of that Class 1 for 67 years. The branch was sold to the Delaware Otsego Corp in 1970 and freight trains continued to operate into the mid 1980s along with excursion trains. The last freight ran in 1987 and the line was completely moribund until being sold to the Leatherstocking Chapter of the NRHS in 1996. Incidentally, despite selling the branch the Delaware Otsego Corp (parent company of the NYS&W) retained ownership of the passenger depot in Cooperstown where they still maintain their corporate headquarters despite having no rail operations in town.
Despite having been in existence as a tourist railroad for more than two decades I'd never visited the operation. But in a twist of good fortune I made a totally unplanned trip to Binghamton chasing an NS train on the old D&H the day prior to this photo. While out that evening with an old railroader/railfan friend he told me that the CACV just happened to be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of their railroad the very next day.
Based out of the small town of Milford south of Cooperstown they had a full weekend of special events and extra trains. The highlight of the event was the first steam locomotive to traverse these rails since the 1970s and included a bit of rare mileage almost into downtown Cooperstown.
Viscose Company #6 is an 0-4-0 saddle tank loco built by Baldwin in 1924. Originally assigned to the American Viscose Company plant in Roanoke, VA she was sold for scrap in the early 1960s. Never cut up she languished for decades in the yard of Gem City Iron & Metal Company in Pulaski, VA. Purchased by Scott Symans of Dunkirk, NY in 2004 and restored over the next three years she now travels by truck to shortlines and tourist railroads all over the country that do not have steam locomotives of their own.
She weighs 60,000 lbs and has a 17,360 lb tractive effort.
Here she is just starting to pull south from her photo op at the Cooperstown village welcome sign just north of here at Chestnut St. / Route 28 crossing.. This little bit is rare mileage as the normal northern limits of CACV operations is the runaround track a half mile south of this point and this crossing is clearly out of service and marked exempt.
So there you have it...a double hit of rare mileage and rare steam...and all totally unplanned!
Cooperstown, New York
Saturday July 13, 2019
Wooden railway ties in an industrial wasteland.
Monticule de traverses de chemin de fer sur la friche de Carsid au nord du canal.
Ilford FP4+ 200 ASA, Adonal 1+25 13 min.
Amidst a light but unrelenting downpour, K153 and Steamrail's heritage Tait set power through Tecoma station en route to Belgrave.
The north face of Mt. Rainier is a lonely place in the winter. Along with a few friends I got to explore it several years ago. On that adventure we skied through this amazing landscape from the Carbon River entrance, over Florence and Tolmie Peaks, across Mowich Lake and between Observation and Echo Rocks (seen in the middle-left of this image). From there we descended and climbed multiple glaciers beneath Willis Wall, eventually reaching Sunrise. A beautiful couloir descends from there directly to White River Campground. This area is closed in the winter, so we finished our route by exiting through the other side of the park, near Crystal Mountain. In the end, it was among the best snow I'd ever skied on a traverse - and it was a traverse with TWO splitboarders! I was the token skier ;) I felt like I was in was reverso world. Perhaps it's why we skied so much powder? Snowboarders are good luck, right.
Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington
A loaded BR 'HEA' Series wagon on the traverser at Coalite & Chemical Products Ltd, Grimethorpe works on 5th May 1983. Almost 2,000 of these wagons were built at BR’s Shildon works between 1975 and 1979, intended to become the standard general-purpose hopper wagon. Originally classified as HBA, they were rebuilt with improved suspension and reclassified 'HEA' and in the 1980s were in widespread use conveying household coal in block trains to coal concentration depots and yards around the country. A standard BR 21-ton coal hopper, originally of LNER design, is behind the traverser control hut.
© Gordon Edgar - photographer Roy Burt - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
Tonemapped this one for fun.
Ok, something different. :-) Noticed some guys running their remote control 4WD cars through rocks near at creek a the park. Surprised how easily they traversed the big rocks, had to grab a few photos from a distance.
A loaded BR 'HEA' Series wagon has just rolled off the traverser at Coalite & Chemical Products Ltd, Grimethorpe works on 5th May 1983. Almost 2,000 of these wagons were built at BR’s Shildon works between 1975 and 1979, intended to become the standard general-purpose hopper wagon. Originally classified as HBA, they were rebuilt with improved suspension and reclassified 'HEA' and in the 1980s were in widespread use conveying household coal in block trains to coal concentration depots and yards around the country. A standard BR 21-ton coal hopper, originally of LNER design, is behind the traverser control hut.
© Gordon Edgar - photographer Roy Burt - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
A view of Little Traverse Bay on the night of my arrival at Petoskey State Park where I stayed during Photostock 2016.
Hello! Here's a long exposure from a summer night/morning at about 2:30am... looking across the Missouri River just outside of Bismarck, North Dakota. There's some nice streaks of lightning and a little bit of color in the sky from the nearly full moon that was to my right.
I sometimes forget how odd Michigan town names must look to someone who lives far away, like Bad Axe or Traverse City.
Globally though, I'm not sure we're even in the running.