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Sachsenring Trabant P601A's at the TBw Staßfurt.
© Dennis Matthies
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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.
“What’s happened has happened. We’re just an expression of faith in the mechanics of the World. But it’s not an excuse to do nothing. And what you call faith, I call reality.” ~Tenet
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Taken at InSilico North East Cyber Roleplay. More info on InSilico online at insilico.online
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The heart reactor, shoes, laser eyes, baggy shorts and belt are all from NEUROLAB. More info on NEUROLAB products here.
The robotic arm is Kovacs Arm from The Forge. More info on The Forge products here.
The face piercings and earrings are **RE** Savage Face Piercings, from RealEvil Industries
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The hair is A&Y Text Cyber Hair w/ tattoo layer. More info on A&Y here
The Robotic Feet are AZOURY - Ce qu'il est. They are an absolute perfect fit. More info on AZOURY here
un soir sur l'autoroute, controle de la douane à la frontière entre la Belgique et la France; j'en profite pour prendre quelques photos....
si quelqu'un peut m'en dire plus sur l'auteur de cette construction, l'année, etc.
Former Lothian Buses 529, Borders Buses 11905 in Berwick on service 477 to Holy Island. 25th August 2017.
Borders Buses Optare Solo YJ09 OUG (10901) parked at their garage / yard in Berwick, 30/05/21
Thanks to the nice man who let us round, but not his colleague who arrived 5 minutes later and said no!
Borders Buses 11308 departs Edinburgh Bus Station with a service 52 for Lauder and onwards to Jedburgh and Kelso.
Picked this up for $2.50 at the liquidation of the Strongsville store.
There's a good article about Borders here:
articles.cnn.com/2011-09-12/us/first.borders.bookstore.cl...