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Having a bit of Monday morning mischief with subject-setting group, Macro Mondays. This week's delicious task: "Fill-the-Frame with Food." So I've served up an unhealthy helping of diet-busting potato chips. HMM ... :-))
Una de las cinco entradas situadas en las murallas de Laguardia. En forma ojival, se halla en muy buen estado de conservación. Merced a los esfuerzos de mejora del conjunto urbano de este pueblo, situado en el corazón de la Rioja Alavesa, y mas concretamente al haber impedido el aparcamiento de vehículos en esta plaza, podemos contemplar este conjunto arquitectónico cual si el tiempo no hubiera pasado.
Si accedemos al exterior por esa puerta, contemplaremos el conjunto de viñedos a los pies del pueblo, así como la Sierra de Toloño-Cantabria y los tres embalses naturales , donde anidan y descansan una multitud de aves en sus movimientos migratorios. Mas lejos, los pueblos de El Villar y Cripán. En dias despejados contemplamos la ciudad de Logroño.
Muy agradecidos a todos los amigos de flickr por sus amables visitas, comentarios y premios a estas imágenes.
Tierras altas de Rioja Alavesa, en dirección a Cripan. A los pies de Santirso y su bonete, curiosa roca en el perfil de la sierra de Cantabria-Toloño, muralla que separa dos ecosistemas bien diferentes : El boscoso, húmedo del norte y el luminoso y mediterráneo del sur.
El pueblo de Elvillar parece acurrucarse bajo los formidables farallones de la sierra, que le protegen de los frios vientos del norte.
La ruta que va desde Laguardia hasta Lapoblación, al pie de la cumbre del mismo nombre, es una de las mas bellas y encantadoras de la Rioja Alavesa.
The Canadian National Keenan Local R901 rolls south through Iron Junction, Minnesota behind a pair of former Grand Trunk GP38-2's as it returns to Keenan Yard from Mountain Iron.
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CN Missabe Sub
Iron Junction, MN
CN R901 (Keenan, MN to Iron Range, MN Turn)
GTW 5847 GP38-2 Ex. PLE 2054 Blt. 1977
GTW 5856 GP38-2 Ex. CRIP 4374 Blt. 1978
La Parisienne is a traditional bread from Paris, it's very crip and tasty! Happy Macro Mondays!
Et bien, ma chère Loanne Lo ou Lolo, maintenant tu la connais ... mieux vaut l'acheter soit même, si tu confies la course à ton homme ... arrivant à la maison ... il ne te restera sûrement qu'un petit bout de 2 cm :-)
A painted sky at almost sunset, on a crisp, bright, winter's day!
Happy new week my friends, enjoy =)
But this place has never been totally iced up.
It's my secret bathing spot, lovely and crisp.
If you stay a little bit too long you became quite numb and it sure hurts when you get thawn up.
It's the VIking way of having fun, simple as that.
It's all about having a balance to things you are doing, we rehearse quite a lot on such stuff.
We love our cold crips winter and want it to stay for so long as we can.
It looks like we have done quite a good job at it this year.
Sorry if we messed up your spring on the way.
lol
Sorry Sorry
😇😇😇😇
Graffiti on old mill structure in Turner's Falls, Massachusetts.
Shot with the Olympus E-5, Olympus Zuiko 14-35 f.20 lens.
The day dawned crisp and foggy, with Crescent Lake bathed in a single, scintillating patch of sunlight. Sometimes Mother Nature applies her own sliders, in which case we just need eyes to see and appreciate her work.
Rock Island E6A 630 and E8A 652 looking good at a photoshoot in the Iowa Northern yard at Manly, IA. Tip of the hat to everyone involved in organizing, lighting, moving equipment around, etc. - it was a great night.
Under pre-dusk conditions between trains, a stroll catches a busy CRI&P operation in 1967. Year old Galaxie with Cadillac car looking on. Must be a Yardmaster.Old way of calming crews distain for Intial/Final terminal delay was pointing out that with enough ITD and FTD can afford a new LTD. Quality here could have been handled a little better. Note: New York Central streamliner leaving in the distance.
Continuing the unofficial Rock island theme I seem to have stumbled into...
In its short life, this railroad has already been captured from every possible angle above ground level. That being said, there was no way I was going to pass up a chance to grab my own shots; it's simply too far from home for my typical day trips. Thus, after a Thursday afternoon on the Fordyce & Princeton in Arkansas, I worked my way east to Cleveland, MS, and drove the remaining 45 minutes early the next morning.
The Mississippi Delta Railroad's two Rock-painted geeps sun themselves on a quiet Friday morning in Sumner, Mississippi. From the railroad's website: "The Mississippi Delta Railroad, MSDR, based in Sumner, MS, operates a total of 85 miles of track in Northwest MS from a connection with the Canadian National Railway at Swan Lake, MS." Unfortunately, the railroad didn't turn a wheel - except for a hi-rail truck - but it was worth a stop to get these while still clean and fresh. Just had to wait a couple hours for the shadows to recede a bit. Note NS (ex-SOU) MoW caboose #500000 behind the power, across the street.
A fitting end to my 2020 tour, because the first clouds I had seen all week started to roll in later in the morning and this was pretty much the end of it all.
CP 261 proceeds through Cotter South anticipating a meet with its westbound counterpart 260 which is switching Letts up the road. This portion of the Ottumwa Sub between Washington and Muscatine is part of a 33-mile stretch of former Rock Island trackage that the Milwaukee Road in 1982 to eliminate a section of its own mainline to Kansas City. The searchlights at Cotter South are, in fact, Rock Island signals.
A U28B and U25B lead three GP40s on a Rock Island freight out of Denver. J. David Ingles photo, Brian M. Schmidt collection
Minneapolis river front on a crips fall morning, Twin Cities Marathon along side the Vikings playing in town today
Fordyce & Princeton (ex-CRI&P) SW1500 1504 trundles along the heavily wooded right-of-way leading to its one customer for today (and most days), the Georgia Pacific OSB plant just south of Fordyce, Arkansas, and only a mile or two ahead.
Although the crew is running out of time due to other commitments, they'll safely complete their trip down and back since it's not far. Luckily, they got out of Fordyce before the shadows completely consumed the scene at this, the only public crossing (overpass) between town and GP.
This appears to be a once-a-week thing, and apparently only on Thursdays, which was the reason I started off my week-long expedition the previous Sunday by heading due west instead of south into Arkansas.
Another blizzard ruined shot for the ailing Graflex. Aperture Arthritis leading to shutter stiffness mars CRI&P GP-40 347 in then Sgt stripe scheme. This set earned those stripes in -22 duty. Downgrade into IGH MN. from CGW RofW.
CRI&P X-SP6562West crosses the Canadian River near Logan, NM on March 04, 1974. I want to say this was RI Tr#61 and therefore not an extra but I really don't remember. At any rate all of these "dirty mty's" will most likely be forwarded to the PFE facility in Tuscon after arrival in El Paso.
One of two lines of locomotives is all that remains at the now-shuttered NRE in Silvis, IL. What was once a massive locomotive rebuilding and refurbishing facility that stored literally hundreds of locomotives (Search Silvis, IL in YouTube for several drone videos from years previous), some of which were historic, became another vicitim of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This facility at Silvis, along with facilities in Dixmoor, IL and another out-of-state location, were shut down, with everything being consolidated into the facility in Mt. Vernon, IL. Everything not deemed worth of rebuild or resell was scrapped on site. And this is all that remains.
This image was taken from a public street. I was not able to shoot the other line of locomotives, as that would have required tresspassing, and I was already being watched like a hawk by Silvis security. Yes, even though this location is no longer rebuilding locomotives, it is still heavily patrolled.
On a positive note, a few weeks before I took this image, the Friends of 261, a preservation group in Minnesota, had announced plans to purchase this property, with future plans to turn it into a museum of some sort and eventually run excursions out of Silvis.
After dropping a loaded grain train in Calumet, the AT&L runs light down to El Reno to pick up another train from the UP. Unfortunately, the sun came out during high noon as they started up back for Geary, so this was the last of my shots from the AT&L. I was quite content in shooting this seldom-covered railroad.
CSX J744 crosses the Illinois River with three cars for H.B. Fuller on the last remaining segment of the Kankakee and Seneca Railway. Owned 50/50 by the Rock Island and Big Four (CCC&StL) Railroads, the K&S was intended to be a Chicago bypass between the two roads. Nonetheless, the railroad folded in 1933 during the Great Depression, but the Rock Island kept a small section of track south of Seneca, including this lift bridge, to serve industries south of the river including a DuPont explosives plant.
Rocket from Century. Review with connected related adventure. Straight story, no embellishment. Back in the wee hours of the night, life number 4 of 9 was spared in a side swipe. Coach lights dim everyone asleep, protruding object near window level ripped open the right side at length. With pillow against the side and seat reclined, open air, dust and safety glass peppered the interior. Luckily other than the lady in the seat ahead with a bump on her forehead from the center shade bar, no other injuries resulted. Just like the movie Airport (not yet made in 67) a guy across the aisle panicked and started shouting "we are all going to die". I quickly told him to calm down, we are not derailed and will go find the conductor immediately. He stopped the train for inspection and took care of business. The coach was set out, psgrs given compartments and free breakfast. Any NYC fans have a photo of the damaged coach, I would like to see it. Think may have seen it in a 67/68 Train mag once. Anyhow, between other local mishaps and near misses on duty at Milw towers, figure may have one or two lives left? Maybe not.
Rock Island #205 departs LaSalle Street for Joliet behind the #425. On the right is the AAPRCO special led by #90 which will depart LaSalle half an hour behind the #205.
These plants was hanging on there for about a week ago. Just before the autumn equinox, marking the end of summer. That said, it is still very warm here with some summer temps late at night. It is nice but now wishing for those fresh, crips autumn days
Fordyce & Princeton (ex-CRI&P) SW1500 1504 departs Fordyce, Arkansas with a short string of cars for the Georgia Pacific OSB plant just a few miles south. Although the crew is running out of time due to other commitments, they'll safely complete their trip down and back before sunset since it's not far.
This appears to be a once-a-week thing, and apparently only on Thursdays, which was the reason I started off my week-long expedition the previous Sunday by heading due west instead of south into Arkansas.
METX #90, the honorary C&NW tribute engine, leads an AAPRCO special out of LaSalle Street destined for the CSS via the Electric Blue Island Branch. This scene bears an uncanny resemblance to the time when C&NW briefly took over Rock Island commuter operations after the 1980 bankruptcy before the formation of Metra.
Three years ago today, an ethanol train from the NS got delivered to the IAIS with a trio of CN units, the lash up consisting of a C40-8M, C40-8W and SD75I, the first two units are no longer active on the Canadian National roster. With no IAIS power being handy in Burr Oak Yard, the CN power was chosen for the Harbor delivery, completely surprising me when I showed up and found a cloud of smoke from the Barn as they were departing.
After shoving out of Burr Oak Yard, North American painted CN 2437 is at the helm of IAIS BIRDSW2 for Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard, as it ducks under the Rock Island cantilever at CP Robbins, later getting off the Metra Rock District and onto the adjacent Track 9 to the Indiana Harbor Belt at CP 154. This is by far one of my favorite catches from Chicagoland, as this was far from the land of PTC on Metra and only one more year until CN perged all the barns to Canada, storage, or the scrap yard. A Cowl leading on the Rock is something I can say that will never happen again…. Taken: 5-20-19
It’s now 2022, the barns are gone, most of the C40s are gone, Metra is PTC only..BUT the Rock Island signals are still standing strong today outside of everything.
Caught this eastbound KYLE freight outside of Limon, CO (former Rock Island trackage) just as the crew was climbing onboard. With begrudging spousal approval, I got an additional pass here at Genoa. Although it was only another eight miles, we waited some 30 minutes for the train to arrive. Friendly waves from the crew (against G&W corporate policy I'm sure) as the kids and I perched on this hillside. Success; and worth the two-day trip from grandma's house to home.
It may be rare, but once in a while the garage queens will put out a little smoke. Pulling a second cut up the hill back in August was one occasion. They'll assemble the train and do a brake test at the shop before heading south for Dover. All four units were on today's southbound for a spin in Boston, which will leave CRIP 1341 facing south again.
Another Rock Island spinoff, the Austin, Todd & Ladd is owned by Wheeler Brother's Grain Company and exists primarily to run grain from the elevators at Watonga down to El Reno, where the operation connects with UP. Here, six of the pike's eight operable units tip-toe around the wye at Geary, OK with a long line of empties, turning from westbound to north to reach Watonga. The track continuing west is the branch to Bridgeport, which appears to be used primarily for car storage, and ends in a gravel pile a couple miles west of its namesake.
The sad piece of machinery in the foreground looks to be CF7 2491, the one non-operable unit on the roster. Parts of its carbody were in a scrap pile located near the railroad's crossing of US Hwy 281 in downtown Geary.
Blizzard railroading Inver Grove Hgts,MN mid 60's. A mile and a half walk up CGW RofW in -20 with +20 winds only to have Graflex shutter stutter ruin several shots.Can't say we weren't in the hunt. Retired the old camera after this. Frustrating. The agony of defeat. In typical RI fashion, this Rocket Frt lived up to it's name. Sorry for the quality. Resulted in frozen toes and buns as well.
With their short run to Berry Plastics complete, the crew of Arkansas-Oklahoma (A-OK) Super-7 #4098 (aka "Wyatt") has run up the west side of the UP connector at McAlester, OK and tied down for the rest of the day. The 4093 (aka "Reed") is parked right where they left it and two of three former BNSF B40-8Ws are parked in the yard to the distant left. That boom truck is kinda nice too.
4093 started life as Western Pacific U23B #2255 and 4098 started life as WP U23B #2260. After rebuilding, both spent time on the Monongahela, Conrail, and Norfolk Southern before getting painted in this passable rendition of the Rock Island scheme. Most appropriate since the A-OK operates part of the Rock Island's former Choctaw route from Memphis to Tucumcari.
Taken with permission.
An Austin, Todd and Ladd (ATL) train of empty hoppers crosses one of the many, mostly dry, tributaries of the North Canadian River between Calumet and Geary, OK. The tracks veer well away from US highway 270 at this point and won't rejoin US 281 until Geary, but that's of little consequence. The train's not doing more than about 15 miles per hour and it's an easy chase.
Note former McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation GP10 8102 trailing the green units. Pretty odd sight this far away from Kentucky.
Digging deep, deep into the print film archives, back to a time before I had "discovered" slide film...
F7A/B #347C/B (reportedly built as F7A 39C and F3B 35A) had a long colorful history on Santa Fe before being leased to Amtrak in 1971. They were returned to Santa Fe in 1973 but luckily, escaped the CF-7 rebuild program. Santa Fe donated them to the California State Railroad Museum in March 1986 and their existing Yellowbonnet scheme was replaced by the present Warbonnet scheme at Santa Fe's San Bernardino shops in April 1988. In May of that year, they participated in Railfair 1988 in San Diego.
On this date, probably in late May or early June 1988, the Central California Traction Company is at their carbarn on Cherokee Lane and preparing to deliver the F's back up to Sacramento, having retrieved them from Santa Fe's Mormon Yard in Stockton, CA on a previous date. They'll likely have the assistance of the Friendly SP, which connected with both the museum and the Traction Company in Sacramento.
Info cobbled together from various internet sources and my own spotty memory.
With one of the few PTC-equipped EMDs on the roster leading, IAIS SIBI waits for a window across UD on the outskirts of Joliet along Route 6 which was barely plowed from a snowstorm that came through earlier that morning. In the background is the notorious I-80 bridge over the Des Plaines River. Beyond Joliet, I-80 and Route 6 roughly parallel the former Rock Island all the way to Council Bluffs.
Working the Buckeye Terminals facility located in Hammond, Indiana, an industrial crew spots a cut of tanks at the loading racks with a leased Savage Inc switcher. SVGX 204 was originally a Rock Island SW1200, but has since been repowered with a CAT 204 engine by Republic Locomotives and is designated as an RL1000. This facility sits adjacent to the east end of IHB's Gibson Yard.
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Buckeye Terminals
Hammond, IN
Unknown Symbol (Industrial Switcher; Hammond, IN)
SVGX 204 RL1000 Ex. Timken 204, CRIP 929 SW1200 Blt. 1965