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From the 2010 Studio Ghibli movie Arrietty, which finally opened in the US this weekend. The Jelly family heartily recommends this movie to all Ghibli and Miyazaki fans!
It was dark and dismal in Seattle this weekend, so this wasn't shot under the best of possible lighting conditions (hence the shopped background). But the hand is a fully three-dimensional Lego creation, the palm rising several inches above table level. The ivy leaf is based on one plucked from the wall outside my Lego room. It all looks much more impressive "in the flesh"!
With the 710s being delayed by a couple of months due to issues during testing, it's only a matter of time before scenes like this are no more.
172007 is seen here at Upper Holloway with 2J34, the 10:33 Barking - Gospel Oak service.
Love them/hate them, they represented a transition from the early diesel era to modern times, replacing many popular diesel classes. You will miss them when they are gone. GWR 43193 at Swindon
...one phrase that possesses an extremely negative or positive connotation, never anything in between. Sadly, this photo displays the lesser half.
This is a semi-forgotten photo the Short Line delivering a loaded 60C to the NS. The recent addition of CN gon trains initially had me worried that NS had lost the contract to run these trains, but that fear was (thankfully) put to rest when I saw a bunch of NS cars in the plant a few days ago. These trains have boggled the minds of rail enthusiasts for as long as they've been running. Where do they go? What's in all those gons?
While most assume that these trains are scrap loads going into the mill and empties leaving, they are not only empty going in and loaded coming out, but are loaded with steel slabs scarfed and loaded by TMS International, a contractor within the Indiana Harbor Works complex. The loads go down to Calvert, Al - more specifically a steel production facility known as AM/NS, a 2014-constructed joint facility owned by both ArcelorMittal (yes, still them, perhaps the only US location not purchased by Cleveland Cliffs) and Nippon Steel - hence the incredibly generic and uncreative name. These trains have been running since the plant opened those 7 years ago, and used to run in alternating directions every day, empties in, loads out, over and over again. Though recently, they've only been running once or twice per week in each direction, typically double the length that they used to be. A bit harder to find, but at least we still have a chance to shoot them...
...for now. I read last night that in February, ground was broken on a new facility in Calvert that will produce the slabs for AM/NS themselves, effectively obseleting (yes, that is an actual word!) these trains. You can read more about it here:
www.alreporter.com/2021/02/19/steelmaker-breaks-ground-on...
So, a little over a year remains for these trains to run before they will meet a swift end like so many other unique operations across the country. For now, here's a late September example of one. Two NS GE's are at the helm, with two other pushing hard on the rear (although you can't see them) of this massive 145-car loaded 60C. A Short Line crew is running the train and heading to 501, a mile to the east of me, where they will hand the train off to an NS crew. This would be one of the last times they would deliver to 501, as the preferred routing changed soon after NS having the SCIH dump them in Pine Siding at 497 - a very recent concept, but neat to see new sorts of operating patterns in this day and age!
A set of NJT Arrow MUs rests at Washington Union Station, a good distance away from its normal home territory in New Jersey. These Arrows brought in train 1099, which I rode from Philly back home to DC on this day. While Amtrak did a pretty good job disclaiming that these trains had non-standard equipment, a number of my fellow passengers were a lot less thrilled than I was when they realized what we were boarding!
Dash 9s in Paris, two posts in a row? Well, they won't be around for much longer, so I'm more than happy to get photos of them while they're still here in their current state. One of my favorite all time spots - met a few friendly folks here too at the time.
Those old signal bridges with their searchlights are icons too - and I hope they still have a few more years left of service.
I know this is *the* Paris shot that everyone has gotten, but I love it all the same every time.
There are still a few hopping around here but next weekend is supposed to be in the lower teens. I suspect that will be the end of them for this year. The flowers are long gone...
CSX B724 is seen trundling south through Berlin, MA this afternoon. Last week, CSX performed a massive tie job along the Fitchburg Secondary. That was the first time this isolated branchline has seen substantial maintenance in over a decade, so rumors are now flying around that CSX is making the branch look better before they put it up for sale. If it is indeed true, I'm glad I've been chasing these guys around over the past few years because who knows what the future holds.
The ultimate, and last generation of main line steam crosses a quiet Michigan farm, just east of the Smith Road Crossing, outside Owosso, MI, one early morning in 1957. Built just 13 years earlier, Nickel Plate's Berkshire #765 easily handles this 31-car freight, but alas, more efficient locomotives, powered by internal combustion engines are rapidly taking over America's railroads. The surviving steamers have largely been replaced in passenger service and within a year, even this 400-ton youngster will be forced into early retirement. Fortunately, her relatively short service, and the efforts of many volunteers helped ensure her preservation for future generations to appreciate.
This late 50s-era re-creation was staged in August of 2009 courtesy of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, the Steam Railroading Institute, the Great Lakes Central Railroad, and Lerro Productions.
Amtrak's Acela Express trainsets are soon to be replaced by the Avelia Liberty which means this scene won't be around much longer.
The new trains are undergoing testing and are expected to enter passenger service in late 2023.
703 and FQ04 approach Gawler River Rd crossing while working 1471s to Snowtown.
701 and 703 were withdrawn from traffic a fortnight after this image was captured.
Volvo B7L/Wright Eclipse VWL131 (02C11406) is seen leaving Drogheda for Dundalk, this along others of this class transfered from Cork to Dundalk are due for withdrawal this year when newer vehicles arrive.
There was a time when I moved through the world using a borrowed blueprint.
It functioned.
But it never truly fit.
I learned to adapt, to translate myself, to smooth the edges so the system would read me correctly.
The cost of that adaptation remained invisible — even to the instruments meant to measure it.
Only later did the pattern reveal itself.
This mind was never faulty.
It was simply built along a different geometry.
Not a label to wear,
but a structure to recognize.
Some architectures pass unnoticed when they are disguised as something else.
Some signals cancel themselves out under constant adjustment.
And some truths only surface once the masks are set aside.
This is not a rejection of maps or cartographers.
It is an acknowledgment that not every terrain can be understood from a single snapshot.
If you have ever felt misread by the mechanisms meant to define you,
know this:
A system’s limitation does not define the value of what it fails to measure.
There are many ways to function.
Not all of them are standard.
None of them are broken.
— Amon the Purple
Some paths are unclear not because we are lost — but because the map was drawn for someone else.
CMQ Job 2 rolls past Long Pond on a cold winter day. The supposed sale of CMQ is rumored to be announced soon. This could mean the days of the blue barns could be numbered.
UP is currently loaning CN a variety of yard power, including these two UP GPs here at Markham Yard sitting beside an EJ&E SD38-2 switching a cut of cars
Chora Sfakion, Crete. One restaurant was open and a bakery was selling fresh croissants. Both took only cash. Would like to return for a longer visit.
Our Happy Caturday theme this week is from the wedding wish:
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Here's Rena siting in my luggage.
My brother Alex left on Tuesday and today my brother Doug arrives for the last few days of my visit with my parents. I wake up very early (even on the west coast) so I am here on Flickr this morning but my mom won't as she is getting things ready for Doug's visit.
Happy Caturday!
Explored March 9, 2024
From my photo journal.
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
- Sylvia Plath
Something blue(ish).... no, I'm not getting married, yet. This is another dress borrowed from my girlfriend. It's another that'll be on eBay soon. I still can't get over my hair. Lockdown is shit, but the no hairdresser rule has really given me time to grow it out and experiment. I'm also still buzzed that it's still not grey. 50 soon and still a good shade of brown. I used to be bleach blonde, but that was a long, long time ago now.
1970s built EMUs stabled at Southport. Replacement trainsets in the shape of Swiss-built Stadler Class 777 EMUs due in service later in 2020.
A UP C44AC-CTE, now rebuilt as a C44ACM, is leading the westbound Zephyr on an afternoon that brought some much needed moisture and cooler temperatures to the area. There has been no significant rain in weeks, and temperatures have been well into the 90°Fs (32°Cs). Today, the temperature is very pleasant 60°F (15°C).
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This one is cute, but it's not quite my favourite 'eastern' style dress. another borrow from my girlfriend. Trying a few new things with my hair recently. I need to get some hair accessories!
Had I known that our time together would be cut short, and it would hurt so much in the end, I would still do it over and over again.
The beauty of borrowed..!
This LK Bennett "Marcellin" Silk dress retails at £400..!! Sadly it is no longer available in store and I couldn't afford it anyway!!
But that is the beauty of the LK Borrowed rental scheme, I get to wear stuff I could never afford and an item that is no longer available..!!
And you lovelies get to see the pics..!!💋💋
These 3 quotes:
“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― David Brower
“It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
I seem to recall when this was first painted yellow four years ago it was suggested it may be moved between depots to show off its heritage livery.
However, it has largely remained at Elgin since repaint although today Aberdeen got a shot and put it on the X17. Seen here on Union Street.
VWD13 and VWD14 both based with BE in Capwell, Cork have been loaned to BE Waterford for the Tramore 360 service from Waterford City, VWD14 is seen leaving Waterford.
This one is heavy. It's a real quality feeling dress. One of the many new dresses from my girlfriend. We're both addicted to charity shops. Never ending discoveries. More from my discoveries soon!