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I absolutely love how this one came out. I really hope it comes across as a really old photo. There might actually be four good wheels, but we only see two so I said two.
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Explore, October 25, 2007
During a tour of the Canadian Parliament Building in Ottawa, I saw this stained glass window of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, which marked the Diamond Jubilee of each of the monarchs.
Parliament Hill, colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Its Gothic revival suite of buildings serves as the home of the Parliament of Canada and contains a number of architectural elements of national symbolic importance. Parliament Hill attracts approximately 3 million visitors each year.
Originally the site of a military base in the 18th and early 19th centuries, development of the area into a governmental precinct began in 1859, after Queen Victoria chose Bytown as the capital of the Province of Canada. Following a number of extensions to the parliament and departmental buildings and a fire in 1916 that destroyed the Centre Block, Parliament Hill took on its present form with the completion of the Peace Tower in 1927. Since 2002, an extensive $1 billion renovation and rehabilitation project has been underway throughout all of the precinct's buildings; work is not expected to be complete until after 2020.
A hundred Northern Elephant Seals bleat and scream and snort and bellow on the beach and in the surf at Piedras Blancas on the southern Big Sur coast.
In 1688 Fort Andross was established as a trading post here on the Androscoggin River. Eventually a mill was constructed and after a number of failures Cabot Mills was successful and in 1930 employed over 1100 workers in the two mills. By 1941 it was sold and soon closed. In 1986 It was purchased anew and has been converted into a multiple use facility. The bottom section here is a permanent flea market. In the three stories above there are a number of diverse uses. Included is John Bisbee, a sculptor who (until recently I think) worked almost exclusively using carpenters nails with which he construct his sulputures.
The rest of L shaped building is in the reflection.
Taken on a early morning walk near my old home. The retired farmer who had previously owned the land before passing it on to his son said it represented him and his wife (who are both still alive and well in their late 80s). They were both keen horse riders and the construction between the trees is a pile of logs either side of the wire fence they woud jump over on their way home.
I just had to share this selfie since it's probably my favourite photo from that day. I had actually already been out in the car looking like this as we had to collect Rachel, but it was nice to settle down and relax for a while before we went out properly.
Another from the first of two fabulous days of chasing trains along this beautiful railroad.
Instead of running all the way to Fabyans as in prior fall seasons, this year the Conway Scenic is running two daily round trips between North Conway and Crawfords with the addition of a third 'bus train' for passengers arriving by motor coach from Portland off a cruise ship as a day shore excursion. That means there are now six trains running through the Notch every day with a scheduled meet at Bartlett and Sawyers River. It is truly an astonishing and joyful site to witness on this hallowed line once given up for dead.
The 1:30 PM Mountainaineer is headed west as it crosses the 330 ft long twin span thru truss bridge over the Saco River at about MP 65.6 on the state owned former Mountain Sub. Ahead at Sawyers River they will meet the eastbound 1130 AM 'bus train' headed by GP35 216 and then dig into the 2.2% climb to the 1900 ft crest of the line at Crawford Depot at MP 85.
Leading the train are GP38s 252 and 255 which are right at home on these rails having been built in November 1966 for the Maine Central Railroad as part of an order of 13 of the model which were the first batch of second generation diesel locomotives purchased by the road. They both regularly operated here for the first 17 years of their lives until the last thru freight ran in 1983 after Guilford purchased the MEC and shuttered the Mountain Sub. In fact 252 had the ignominious duty of leading the final YR-1 from Saint Johnsbury on September 2, 1983.
255 came to Conway Scenic in 2022 and wore her Vermont Rail System red paint until just this past June when she received this new 'old' dress. The VTR red was from her nearly two decade second career as Clarendon & Pittsford 203 after having being sold by MEC successor Guilford Transportation in the early 1990s. 252 meanwhile was the last of her class in service on Guilford, lasting more than three decades, and having seen her other dozen siblings retired and scrapped or sold. She came to Conway Scenic in March 2010 along with GP35 216 in a trade with Pan Am Railways for FP9s 6505 and 6516 that would become Pan Am's OCS power.
Near unincorporated Glen
Bartlett, New Hampshire
Thursday October 9, 2025
The Tree Swallows seemed to have settled into their nesting boxes at Silverdale Creek Wetlands Park.
Fiskardo has two lighthouses near the entrance to the harbour. The older one is Venetian, built in the 16th century, the newer one was built in 1892. Several day cruise boats visit Fiskardo on their Ionian Island tour but they weren't busy last week.