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Back in the day, tourists could take a boat from Waterton Park in Canada's Alberta province south along Upper Waterton Lake across the international border to Goat Haunt in Montana, USA, and then hike back to Waterton.
I took the above shot at the international boundary during my hike back to get my car in order to drive back into the US via a border checkpoint (unmanned on my way north early that morning, but manned on my way back in late afternoon) to my hotel in West Glacier; there were no Canadian border posts/inspections.
It is interesting to see that only minute changes were made from the 1818 marker to the 1925 marker; the firebreak on the far shore of the lake is a continuing indication of the border. Alberta, Canada is to the left; I was just inside Montana, USA.
Of course, this was pre-9/11! I believe that Canadians and Americans could still do this sort of trip after 9/11 but not those like me from further abroad. With the orange-faced man-baby back in Washington, I suppose there's a possibility that a wall might blight this view at some point in the future...
And yes, sorry, that's my rucksack getting into the picture by mistake...
YR61RVE was a Scania N230UD Omnidekka H41/22D new as Centrewest SN36064 in October 2011. It is one of a pair on loan to Borders Buses, and is seen in Galashiels.
This is one of 22 artworks by Johannes Dörflinger that are positionend at german-swiss border at seaside of Constance (Germany) and Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) - the place is called "Klein Venedig" (Little Venezia). This national border is called "Kunstgrenze" - artwork border. Artist Johannes Dörflinger made Tarot figures according to the Visconti Tarot. This one shows the Magus like in Rider Tarot. 2 years ago at the same place it looked like that
Border Buses Scania Wright Solar SN55JVM is seen laying over on Warwick Road, near Carlisle Bus Station between workings of the X95, a route recently taken over by Border Buses when they purchased First, 24th April
Borderbridge to Slovakia in Marchegg, Eastern Austria. Cyclists and pedestrians are free to cross it at any time.
View of the Swiss-German border area from the edge of the Aeussere Baselstraße (in English: "Outer Basel Street") in the municipality of Riehen, Canton of Basel-City, Switzerland
Some background information:
Riehen is a municipality in the Canton of Basel-City in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum and several parks. The municipality is located on the right bank of the Rhine on the Swiss-German border between Wiese and the Chrischona Hill. A salient around 2 km in length protrudes from the northeast, over the Herrenwald forest.
Riehen has a population of roughly 21,800. The municipality is commonly considered one of the more affluent suburbs of Basel, as evidenced by numerous villas in Riehen’s municipal area. The Basel tram network runs through Riehen. Both the mathematician Leonhard Euler and the tennis player Roger Federer spent their childhood in Riehen.
Basel (resp. Basle) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine in the immediate vicinity of the French and German borders. With about 180,000 inhabitants Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva).The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German.
Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland. The city is famous for its many museums, ranging from the Kunstmuseum, the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (since 1661) and the largest museum of art in Switzerland, to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the first public museum of this type in Europe. Forty museums are spread throughout the city-canton, making Basel one of the largest cultural centres in Europe in relation to its size and population.
The University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university (founded in 1460), and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the 20th century also Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers.
In the 1st century, the Romans founded a settlement on the site of today’s Basel Minster, which they extended into a castrum (a fortified camp) in the 3rd century. At that time the area was incorporated in the Roman province of Germania Superior. In the 4th century, the settlement was first named Basilia, from which Basel derives its later name.
After being repelled from crossing the Rhine several times, the Germanic tribe of the Alemanni succeeded in 406. They conquered what is today Alsace in France and a large part of the Swiss Plateau and founded the Duchy of Alemannia. However, in the 6th century, this duchy fell under Frankish rule.
In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Alemannic and Frankish settlement of Basel gradually grew around the old Roman castle and already in the 7th century, Basel began minting its own coins. At that time, Basel was still part of the Archdiocese of Besançon. But in the 8th century, a separate bishopric of Basel was established and at the beginning of the 9th century, a first cathedral was built on the site of the Roman castle.
At the partition of the Carolingian Empire, Basel was first given to West Francia, but with the treaty of Meerssen passed to East Francia in 870. In 917, the town was destroyed by the Magyars. After it had been rebuilt, it became part of Upper Burgundy, and as such was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1032.
From 999 until the Reformation, Basel was ruled by Prince-Bishops. In 1019, the construction of Basel’s cathedral began and around 1100 the first city walls were built. In the 12th century, a city council of nobles and burghers was established and in 1225, the first bridge across the River Rhine was built. The bridge was largely funded by Basel's Jewish community who had settled there a century earlier. Basel’s first city guild were the furriers, established in 1226, but in the course of the 13th century, altogether 15 guilds were founded, reflecting the increasing economic prosperity of the city.
Political conflicts between the bishops and the burghers begin in the mid-13th century and continue throughout the 14th century. By the late 14th century, the city was for all practical purposes independent although it continued to nominally pledge fealty to the bishops. The House of Habsburg made an unsuccessful attempt to gain control over the city. However, it caused a political split among the burghers of Basel into a pro-Habsburg faction, known as the Sterner, and an anti-Habsburg faction, known as the Psitticher.
In 1348, the Black Death reached Basel. The Jews were blamed and hence, in 1349, an estimated 50 to 70 Jews were executed by burning. This sad event has become known as the Basel massacre. In 1356, an earthquake destroyed much of the city along with a number of castles in the vicinity.
A riot on 26th February 1376, known as Boese Fasnacht (in English: "Evil Carnival"), led to the killing of a number of men of Leopold III, Duke of Austria. This was seen as a serious breach of the peace. The city council blamed "foreign ruffians" for this and executed twelve alleged perpetrators. Leopold nevertheless had the city placed under imperial ban. In a treaty Basel was given a heavy fine and was brought under Habsburg control.
To free itself from Habsburg hegemony, Basel joined the Swabian League of Cities in 1385. In 1393, in the Battle of Sempach, many knights of the pro-Habsburg faction, along with duke Leopold himself, were killed. Following the battle, a formal treaty with Habsburg was made. Beginning around 1400, Basel had gained its de facto independence from both the bishop and the Habsburgs and hence, was free to pursue its own policy of territorial expansion. During the council of Basel, which took place between 1431 and 1449, the city became the focal point of western Christianity.
In the Swabian War of 1499, Basel remained neutral despite being plundered by soldiers of both sides. The Treaty of Basel ended the war and granted the Swiss confederates exemptions from the emperor Maximillian's taxes and jurisdictions, separating Switzerland de facto from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In 1501, Basel joined the Swiss Confederation as its eleventh canton. The city was a great win for the Confederation, as it had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from the Alsace region.
In 1529, the city became Protestant and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentruy. The bishop's crook was however retained as the city's coat of arms. In 1536, the first edition of Christianae religionis institutio, John Calvin's great exposition of the Calvinist doctrine, was published at Basel.
In 1792, the Republic of Rauracia, a revolutionary French client republic, was created. It lasted until 1793. After three years of political agitation and a short civil war in 1833, the disadvantaged countryside seceded from the Canton of Basel, forming the half canton of Basel-Landschaft (in English: "Basel-Country").
Today, the name of the city is internationally known through institutions like Basel Accords, the art fair Art Basel and the football club FC Basel. The Swiss chemical industry operates largely from Basel, and Basel also has a large pharmaceutical industry. International companies like Novartis, Syngenta, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Clariant, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basilea Pharmaceutica and Actelion are headquartered there. Finally, it should also be mentioned that in 2019, the American human resources consulting firm Mercer ranked Basel among the ten most liveable cities in the world together with the two other Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva.
My auld gal not wanting to get her feet wet crossing the Holms Water after a hillwalk in the borders.
This wooden contraption stops sheep from escaping their feild via the river..or "burn" as small freshwater streams are called here.
SN55HFD is on loan to Borders Buses at Galashiels, a new trading name for West Coast Motors, with the legal lettering suitably ammended. It is a Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini new as H45/29F First Edinburgh 32676 in September 2005. It will return to Firstbus for further service.
Explored Jan 10, 2009 #109
The border between Mexico and US. These are park service staff with automatic weapons. Now I take groups of high school students to the border annually to look at the issues there first hand. Coronado National Monument.
Sachsenring Trabant P601A's at the TBw Staßfurt.
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I've always had a fascination with rail border crossings and photographing trains crossing to or from Mexico has long been on my wish list. Among the half dozen active rail crossings none is busier than this one, which also happens to be the first between the two nations dating from 1883 when the then 3 ft narrow gauge Texas Mexican Railway built the first rail crossing over the Rio Grande here. The Tex Mex came under the control of the Mexican government which held the 162 mile long line between Corpus Christi and Laredo in trust. The line was standard gauged in 1902 and the present 1275 ft long combination deck and thru truss span was built in 1920.
Though owned by the Tex Mex most traffic to and from the bridge moved via the Missouri Pacific Railroad which traces its history back to 1881 when the International and Great Northern Railway arrived in Laredo from San Antonio not long after the Tex-Mex opened. The shortline's sleep history all changed in 1996 when the Mexican government privatized its national railway system and awarded one of three concessions to a joint venture between Kansas City Southern and Transportación Maritima Mexicana which operated the railroad as Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM). At the same time the UP was acquiring the SP and as a merger condition little Tex-Mex (which KCS had bought a 49% interest in one year prior) was granted trackage rights to Beaumont, TX and a connection with KCS. By 2005 KCS had bought out its partner and controlled 100% of Tex-Mex and TFM which it renamed Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (KCSM).
Finally on April 14, 2023 the Canadian Pacific Railway completed its acquisition of Kansas City Southern and its subsidiaries creating the CPKC, the first tri-national railroad with a 20,000 mile network stretching from Maine and Montreal to Vancouver and south to New Orleans and southwest to here and on to Monterrey, Mexico City and Veracruz on Mexico's Gulf coast and Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific. Consequently this scene is no longer as weird as it looks because this big Canadian Pacific GE/EMD duo are now very much on home rails. They are leading CPKC train M275 (Sanchez Yard in Nuevo Laredo to Jackson, MS intermodal) across the river and into the US. They are passing through the Customs and Border Patrol VACIS scanner which sits right at MP 0 on CPKC's Laredo Sub just south of the connection with the Union Pacific seen coming in from the right.
To learn about what goes into inspecting trains at the international border here are links to official pages from both UP and CPKC.
www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr120820-how-do-railroa...
www.progressiverailroading.com/kansas_city_southern/artic...
And for an advertising video from the manufacturer explaining how VACIS works check out this:
youtu.be/lgYVxZUf3w4?si=Hcxm7lU3o5FmHQ93
Laredo, Texas
Tuesday May 28, 2024
The boarder between The Czech Republic and Germany, close to Ústí nad Labem, 1999.
I was trying to export my Tatra 603 car "home" to the UK. However, it wasn't that simple. We were held in "no mans land" between the two countries for over five hours. I had all the correct paperwork, and had, indeed, owned the car for almost two years at the time. The Czech's were nervous about letting their heritage escape, and eventually we were turned back. I made the crossing successfully (driving the car, this time), about two months later, having, in the interim, obtained a letter from the Director of the National Technical Museum in Prague stating that my car was not a "National Treasure", and I should be allowed to pass.
The car is a V8, aircooled, rear engined, six seat aerodynamic super-saloon, made in limited numbers for (mainly) Government bodies and Party bigwigs. It was built in 1964.
Camera: Carl Zeiss Jenaflex AM-1
Lens:Carl Zeiss Jena f1.8 50mm Unidentified Kodak Film
Epson V600 Scan
YJ64DWD is an Optare Solo M9000SE B32F built as a demonstrator for Optare, Sherburn in Elmet in January 2015. It is shown in Galashiels on loan to Borders Buses, working on the 71 service bound for the Borders General Hospital.
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