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Camera: Canon PowerShot A560
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I took this snap with help of my 2 Bhatija :)
2 bandors you may call :)
With 13 cars pulling on the drawbars of the 2 GP39-2s, Blue Ridge Southern T59 tackles the 4% ruling grade of Balsam on their journey back to Canton, NC. This portion of the Murphy Branch is not often documented due to its inaccessible & the commitment needed to document it, along with the fact that this job would, at least before Evergreen in Canton shut down, only run west of Waynesville on an as-needed basis. On this day though, I happened to be real lucky in that they were delivering 5 new-to-them passenger coaches to Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, so they would all the way to the end of their trackage in Sylva along with working a couple of customers this side of Balsam. Getting to document an ascent up the mountain at several locations was quite the experience seeing the grade, rock cuts, cliff hugging & bridges as I listened to the 2 turbocharged 645 prime movers puke their guts out. While this was happening, I thought to myself how despite having a ruling gradient of 4%, & it is definitely 4% from what I could see along the back roads & hiking, this is still only the SECOND STEEPEST grade on the famed Southern Railway Murphy Branch. Just another reason why this branch became so famous & popular to document among railfans. 1-16-23
Today my photo concept and mental state very much collided, and I found myself remembering a valuable lesson as I sat editing my picture. I started off rough this morning preferring to stay home than to go out in the rain an hour away and shoot. Somewhere along the way I decided I had to choose happiness instead of waiting for it, since my day wasn't getting any better on its own.
As I edited this picture I saw the irony of it, the way that we must make decisions in our lives if we expect them to get better, be filled with inspiration, or any other positive effect we hope for. The small moment to moment choices we make define who we are.
Do you search for positive moments or expect them? Do you befriend hope and happiness or do you scorn them? These were the questions I had to answer for myself this morning as I trudged through the mud. By the end I had a smile on my face, but it was not without choice and commitment to my happiness. My wish for you today is that you are committed to your positive choices.
While in Havana, I got to sit in on a boxing lesson...of course, I stayed out of their way when the punches were flying. No one was hurt in the course of this training...
Things have conspired to keep me from Flickr recently but I haven’t forgotten you and hope to be back soon. I miss all your amazing photos!
This image is from an engagement photo shoot earlier today on the Oregon Coast. The happy couple seems 100 percent committed to this relationship.
Maybe being together is just from habit. Perhaps the habit is just comfortable and you both grow weary together accepting all that comes your way. Perhaps we just don't have the energy to make changes. Best yet, maybe we just belong together no matter what.
Happy Fence Friday
Thanks to a heads up from a friend and the fact that I had no prior commitments I headed west after work to a favorite location that I hadn't been to in a while. And this was the reason...the first visit of CSXT's Conrail heritage unit to 'home rails' of CR's old Boston Line. This was also the first one of these new heritage units I've seen in person as I missed the other two that have made it into New England thus far. We all have our opinions about these things (and most aren't positive!) but at least they are something different. Obviously the design is rather pointless to shoot head on or in a tight wedge and the best way to show it off is with a broadside composition, and frankly there is better spot than this around here.
Here is daily Selkirk to Worcester manifest train M436 crossing the Quaboag River at about MP 75.5 on CSXT's Boston Subdivision. Leading the way is CSXT 1976 a GE ES44AC-H orignally blt. May 2012 as CSXT 3069 and repainted in 2023 and given this number to commemorate the year Conrail was created from the ashes of six bankrupt Northeastern roads. Trailing is CSXT 6222 an EMD GP40-2 blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4323 in Chessie Sytem paint.
The ancient twin stone arch bridge dates from the line's construction in 1839 as the Western Railroad, that when completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point. The Western merged with two other predecessors to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad, and then the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
Warren, Massachusetts
Wednesday September 13, 2023
Some of us are just more comfortable with a leap of faith. This is not me! Proboscis Monkey cruising along in the rainforests of Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo
..for the Battle of Britain event, Nottingham.
Taken in Old Market Square, I missed the flypast of a 1940s Lancaster Bomber due to beer commitments.
The skill and commitment of the U.S. Park Service to build public structures that fit in with the natural environment is on full display here in Zion National Park. Sadly, with the recent decimation of the organization it will most likely and tragically not be able to provide this stellar level of service going forward. I find our current administration's disregard for our country's beautiful natural resources disgusting. They'd rather build detention centers in uninhabitable places. And that's all I have to say about that.
Resurrected from a pic created 12 years ago. A contemplative selfie - not Jesus. Just my Christ Consciousness hangin out.
Tractor repair shop, rural Fresno County.
Seems like yesterday
But it was long ago
Janey was lovely, she was the queen of my nights
There in darkness with the radio playin' low
And the secrets that we shared
Mountains that we moved
Caught like a wildfire out of control
'Til there was nothing left to burn and nothing left to prove
And I remember what she said to me
How she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
Against the wind
We were running against the wind
We were young and strong
We were running against the wind
The years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
Found myself further and further from my home and I
Guess I lost my way
There were oh so many roads
I was livin' to run and running to live
Never worried about payin' or even how much I owe
Movin' eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breakin' all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searchin'
Searchin' for shelter again and again
Against the wind
Little somethin' against the wind
I found myself seekin' shelter against the wind
Well, those drifters days are past me now
I've got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out
Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
I'm older now but still running against the wind
Well, I'm older now and still running
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Still running
Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
Against the wind
I'm still running
Against the wind
I'm still running against the wind
Against the wind
Still running
Against the wind
Running against the wind, running against the wind
Against the wind
See the young man run
Against the wind
Watch the young man run
Against the wind
Watch the young man runnin'
Against the wind
He'll be runnin' against the wind
Against the wind
Let the cowboys ride
Against the wind
Mm
Against the wind
Let the cowboys ride
Against the wind
A few months ago I decided to do a total reroot on my Adonis Gym Boy because his hair was horrible, I started working on him in my spare time but then my work commitments prevented me from completing it.
I had chosen a "Hollywood blonde" color for him but I was still undecided on how to style it.
In the meantime, the Beach Groove version came out with a very similar hair color and I didn't like the idea of having two Adonis with the same hair color, so I decided to delete the grafts made and choose another color.
The first time I saw Adonis live I thought that his face in profile view reminded me of a Native American, especially an Apache.
I liked the idea of doing something to enhance this feature but at the same time I wanted to keep an aspect of mixed ethnicity.
This is the result after a series of various tests, I am very satisfied with how it turned out.
In the meantime I bought a second Gim Boy with better hair than the first one, he was on Monarch body, I swapped, the second got the original body and the custom was put on Monarch one, the match skintone is almost perfect and I like how his overall looks.
didn't get as much snow as we thought we would. But the schools are still closed.
got my much needed sleep. so im pretty happy
This has to be one of the best looking Boeing 737 special schemes so far unveiled by Seattle based carrier Alaska Airlines recently. Named "UNCF Our Commitment" is seen here landing from Sacramento in some fantastic light with Mt Rainer.
Was very fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph this amazing looking scheme this weekend. On this side it features a quote from the great Martin Luther King Jr, "The Time is Always Right to do What is Right." On the first officer side it features a quote from Nelson Mandela.
N492AS
Alaska Airlines
Boeing 737-990ER "UNCF Our Commitment"
KSEA - Seattle Tacoma International Airport
May 31, 2021
I dedicate this image to Jay Daley for his effort and commitment on arriving on location at 7am, befriending a security guard (that looked like Pauly from Rockie) and then managed to get a special area roped off exclusively for us!
Great night out with the focus group with plenty of laughs and not a lot of drinking which makes for a great news years day.
Due to family commitments, I'll be taking a short break for a few days, so this week's Saturday double act rolls in a day early and features 69s on the run!.........
GBRf's 69004 'RIDC Melton' runs past Attenborough Nature Reserve empty handed and over an hour early working 0D55, the 14.35 return run from Beeston Sidings to Toton North Yard.