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The Lofoten islands are one of those creations of our Planet which are a double edged sword. they are of unbelievable natural beauty which we nowadays admire from the commodity of a well made road and a 4x4 car. But the lives of the locals have been extremely tough for centuries, so they are enjoying their hard gained comforts with pride.
Darst Road is known for its birds, but it’s also located in farm and pasture land. Waiting in the fog at the end of the road to see birds I could only hear, many cows began walking across the pasture up to me (or as close as they could get) in anticipation of a morning feeding. The yellow tag on their right ear has a date and the red tag in their left ear has the name of the ranch with two phone numbers. Cow. Commodity. Commerce. Consumption. Beasley, Texas.
The theme for Smile on Saturday this week is "TIMEPIECES".
There is always a lot to be said for time. I find that it is often easier said than done to spend time wisely. However, someone recently reminded me that "Time" is our greatest commodity. That statement is so true. One cannot make more or buy more time.
Time is precious, I hope that you are able to spend the majority of your time on this earth doing things in life that bring you great joy. Have a lovely day and happy snapping.
Led to this abandonment and yet they are the reason this is still standing perhaps. If prices were higher, I think this would be bulldozed and farmed over.
Is tourism a modern form of commodity fetishism? Does it devalue the lives of many of the people living in these cities? The short answer - yes.
NYS&W engine 3018 leads 19 loads of asphalt through Syracuse, NY. The cars are going to Suit-Kote in Cortland, one of this railroad's biggest customers.
A rather scruffy looking TT114 leads 2196 through Tahmoor, with TT109 at the rear, heading for Cooks River with a load of aggregate stone from Marulan.
Introduced for coal working, the TT class are now spread across Pacific National still either on coal, or diversified into stone and intermodal duties, however where ever they are, they're still stained from coal.
Thursday 31st October 2019
1105 and 1107 work 8468 loaded ore train from Cobar past XRN009 and co, loading at the Ulan Colliery.
Thursday 27th July 2023
Steel coils squeal through the curve at Indiana Harbor, moving south on the IHB main after having just crossed NS's Chicago Line.
A variety of bulk commodities such as lumber, sugar, and sand all get transloaded at the yard in Landisville. Here, the 8651 pulls out a string of cars for spotting. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
The perspective you get when entering the Steveston Harbour by boat.
Built in 1894, the cannery echoes the days when it was the leading producer of canned salmon in British Columbia. Today it is a museum with interactive exhibits, film, and tours that demonstrate the Cannery's important role in the history of Canada's West Coast fishing industry.
History
Early years
The cannery opened in 1894, in the boomtown of Steveston on the lower Fraser River. It was the largest cannery in British Columbia until 1902. It was known as the "Monster Cannery" - packing more than 2.5 million cans of salmon in 1897. Each canning season attracted a workforce of hundreds of workers, usually of First Nations, Chinese, Japanese, and European descent. At the time, fish canning was one of British Columbia's largest employers, and produced one of its principal export commodities.
Advancing technology
Over the years, the hordes of people manually canning salmon gave way to rows of high-speed machinery. For the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, the price to pay for these advancements would be a diminished role in the canning of salmon, as the last can of sockeye rolled off the production line in 1930. Then, the British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company and Gosse Packing Company Limited merged, forming British Columbia Packers Limited, an amalgamation of the other canneries in the community.
World War 2
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery remained quiet during the 1930s, but with the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe, the Cannery was revitalized by an onslaught of new capital and expansion in anticipation of a new enterprise, namely herring. New machinery and an army of workers produced case after case of canned herring in tomato sauce, the major source of protein for Allied soldiers and civilians struggling overseas during the war. Herring canning became an industry-wide endeavour and alongside it grew the business of herring reduction, that is, the transformation of herring into protein-rich oil and meal for animal feeding purposes.
Post war
The end of the war meant the end of a market and the end of herring canning in British Columbia. For the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, herring reduction would become the predominant activity by the late 1940s. The rise of this industry is reflected by the growth of the Cannery complex which saw three successive waves of expansion before the herring reduction industry was crippled by overfishing and government closure in the late 1960s. By the 1970s, a new market emerged in Japan for British Columbia herring roe and this ensured that the reduction operation at the Cannery would run once more. However, the new roe industry generated only a small amount of raw material for reduction, as catches formerly in the hundreds of thousands of tonnes were limited by regulation to the low tens of thousands.
Closure
By 1979, the cost of operating the Cannery's aging reduction equipment became too much and the reduction plant was closed. The buildings would serve as a net loft and storage for the Canadian Fishing Company's boat fleet and the era of transforming the Cannery into a museum would begin in earnest.
National Historic Site
During the 1970s and early 1980s the local community lobbied various levels of government to save the Cannery. In 1979 the Federal government purchased the property and in 1984 it was transferred to Parks Canada. The building was first open to the public in 1994 in celebration of the centennial of the building. The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society, a local not-for-profit organization, was formed in 1986 to work together with Parks Canada to develop and operate the site. Today, the Cannery is one of the very few federally owned National Historic Sites operated by a third party.
Chronology
Fisherman's Park sculpture in 2018
1894 - Construction of the original L-shaped building; one manual canning line.
1897 - East Wing built to provide additional packing and seasonal living area. Two additional canning lines added.
1906 - Arrival of the mechanical butchering machine; West wing (butchering shed) converted to net loft/storage. East wing shortened by 50 feet (15 m) in 1906 due to new dyke and railway tracks along the waterfront.
1932 - Remains of the West wing demolished by a windstorm.
1940 - Roofline raised to accommodate additional boiler (boiler house).
1943 - Ice house built (in order to store fish for a longer amount of time).
1940-48 - Various structural modifications and additions related to the herring reduction process: Vitamin oil shed and dryer shed.
1956 - East wing of original building raised to accommodate evaporator. Separator room constructed next to evaporator room.
1964 - Addition of grinding and bagging room off drying shed.
1979 - Gulf of Georgia reduction plant closed, building is used as a net loft.
1994 - Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site of Canada opens to the public.
Wikipedia
Steveston is an ever so romantic fishing village that is situated in Richmond BC, on the Mighty Fraser River
Canada
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
If you enjoy quaint fishing villages, combined with light and vibrant colours, I am pleased to extend an invitation for you to browse through my.... 'I 💖 Steveston album'
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And a wider view as a horizontal photo. Pretty impressive scenery for sure. I know I will be back for another look someday soon. I hope sooner rather than later. All things considered I would expect this line to get busier considering Russia is a major exporter of this commodity.
CSXT L059 switches tank cars at Baker Commodities in North Billerica, MA. This customer recently came back online after the 2022 CSX-Pan Am acquisition.
Three types of trains meet on the quadruple-track thoroughfare that bisects downtown Birmingham, Alabama. The busiest railroad hotspot in Alabama, one can easily see upwards of 5 trains an hour here, if one's luck holds out. The two far tracks are part of CSX's Boyles Terminal Subdivision, while the two middle tracks are part of Norfolk Southern's Alabama Division. The two overgrown sidings at left are not in service. It's quite possible to see all four mainlines occupied simultaneously, or at the very least 3 out of 4, as shown here. A Union Pacific SD70ACe lends a hand to an eastbound Norfolk Southern manifest freight, while two CSX southbounds, a loaded coal and a stacker, wait for their turn to cross the interlocking.
Pacific National Intermodal 2PM6 with locomotives NR119-NR81 crosses Adelaide Metro/PTS passenger railcars 3111-3112 on non revenue transfer service 004A at Millswood. The Railcar set is looped for an oncoming revenue service rather than for the Intermodal which is on a separate network section.
Norfolk Southern GP60 7109 was just beginning its short trek over the former PRR Panhandle with a bottle train as it pulled across CSX's former B&O main in Riverdale.
The train is a pretty hot one to catch around town-literally; It runs from Dolton to the Arcelor-Mittal Steel plant in East Chicago over the Indiana Harbor Belt.
C504 and G513 lead container train 1845 to Kelso through the curves at Sodwalls early in the day. SSR run this train for Grainforce carrying Grain, Rice, Logs and other commodities to and from Sydney approximately 3 times per week.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF Zoom 70-210mm F/4 "Beer Can" Lens. Looking at the base of Kamiak Butte County Park. Palouse Hills section within the Columbia Plateau Region. Whitman County, Washington. Late June 2022.
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-250 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5750 K * Film Emulation: Fuji 800Z * Filter: Cooling Filter (80) * Elevation: 2,598 feet above sea-level
Steel and coal. Two major commodities that intersect in the Calumet Region of this area. Lakefront Yard at East Chicago, Indiana.
The C&NW was my favorite Midwestern carrier from afar, but my pictures of it are precious and few. Here's an off kilter scene from
29 June 1989 at Wheaton IL of a coal train led by SD40-2
duo 6811-6878 in two paint variations.
Belt Railway of Chicago SD40-2 312 rests at 100th Street Yard in South Chicago. Coke hoppers, just delivered by the BRC, sit at KCBX Terminals in the background. Looming above everything is the Chicago Skyway (I-90) toll bridge.
every time meredith grey (grey's anatomy series ) said : pick me - choose me - love me !
i feel so bad cause by these words i feel like the world stops !
like all the humanity feelings go down .
i dunno why i feel these words make us just like any thing to buy
like we are soo cheap !
like a commodity !
I think if love dosn't raise us up, it isn't love at all
if the love makes us down and humiliates us so it is nothing about love !
it's about making our self so cheap and so available ..
if we force the ppl we love to love us , or choose us , if we begged them even if they don't want ..
isnt an insult ?!
let love raise us above every thing ,, let it improve our live and support us and not make things difficult
let it be the strongest point not the weakest .. !
it isn't love unless we feel much better !!
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plz respect the rights .
Inside Paterson's Godown in Clarke Quay, Singapore. Now transformed into residential buildings.
This large godown was originally designed by the firm of Swan & Lermit for Messrs Paterson Simons & Co. in the early 1890s. It was an English trading company established in the 1820s. Paterson Simon & Co exported commodities such as gutta-percha, gambier, copra, tapioca, sago flour, hides and skins to Europe and America.