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The final southbound passenger service of the day streaks into St Bees with 37 401 in charge, the distinctive Class 37 window arrangement of 37 424 can be seen to the right of the box as it awaits the token for the single line section to Whitehaven.
A northbound Purple Express is crossing over from Track 2 to Track 4 at Thorndale Interlocking with 5000 series cars.
While we were away in Cornwall, the new toucan crossing was opened. This greatly enhances road safety here for pedestrians. Not so good for the undertakers on the hill behind!
I'm doing something a little bit different here. Trying to jump-start my motivation for railfanning I spent some time in Niagara. I followed 531 to Fort Erie in the hopes I'd get some intel on the location on C93 (The Wabash). I parked myself overlooking the Niagara river waiting for 531 to do their work, and took this in an attempt to add some flavour to high-sun, going-away shot. I first saw Mike Danneman do a similar thing, and always wanted to try it.
In this shot, 531 is crossing the International Bridge, originally constructed 1871 amazingly, a testament to those who designed it. I'm not sure they would've foresaw the spans
carrying the weight of two big GEs. Neat to also see two countries in this photo with Buffalo, NY skyline under the bridge in the background.
CN 2236 East (531)
Mile 0.75 Stamford Sub
Fort Erie, ON
DB 6441 Joyce crosses over Raderweg and then the cycle crossing with a light loco move to collect some steel wagons from the Nissan plant.
Having finally opened this year I thought it was about time I went and photographed the new crossing on the Firth of Forth joining Fife with the Modern World ;o)
Southbound border crossing between Quebec and New York. Rouses Point, New York, USA.
Cruce de frontera camino sur entre Quebec y Nueva York. Rouses Point, Nueva York, EE. UU.
60076 crossing the River Blyth at Bebside Viaduct, with 6N85, the 08.41 Lynemouth Power Station - Tyne Coal Terminal empty biomass on Mon 1st June 2020.
The Tay Bridge carries a railway line across the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is 3.5 kilometres (2.75 miles), most of which is in a straight line running virtually north-south across the Tay. It curves eastwards towards Dundee.
From about 1854, there had been plans for a Tay crossing, to replace an early train-ferry. The first bridge opened in 1878. It was a single-track lattice design, notable for lightness and low cost. Its sudden collapse in a high wind on 28 December 1879 was one of the great engineering disasters of history, and its causes are still debated today.
The second bridge is a construction of iron and steel. The new bridge took just 5 years to build, thanks in most part to special pontoon equipment with hydraulic legs which were designed by William Arrol. The bridge was designed by William Henry Barlow . On June 10th 1887 there was a low key opening; that is without any ceremony.
This bridge is still in service. It’s situated 18 metres upstream of, and parallel to, the original bridge. Construction involved 25,000 metric tons (28,000 short tons) of iron and steel, 70,000 metric tons (77,000 short tons) of concrete, ten million bricks (weighing 37,500 metric tons (41,300 short tons)) and three million rivets. There are 85 piers. Fourteen men lost their lives during its construction, most by drowning.
In 2003, a £20.85 million strengthening and refurbishment project on the bridge won the British Construction Industry Civil Engineering Award, in consideration of the staggering scale and logistics involved.
Technical stuff
This HDR consists of three individual photos; taken in a series of +2/3, -1 2/3 and +2 1/3. The merging was done with Aurora HDR 2018. Deghosting was at a maximum setting, obviously due to the moving train in the frame. I picked the +2/3 shot as a reference.
Post-production involved highlighting the pastel colouring and dusk toning in the sky. Aurora HDR 2018 gives you the possibility to work in layers, therefore is fairly easy to treat different parts of the clouds differently. The wide angle lens, HDR-processing in combination with the many straight lines in the bridge’s construction, makes that the images has a bit more chromatic aberration at the edges than usual.
Venice is a city with high density and many different crossing velocities...
(in the background an advertising titled "BREAK YOUR TIME" - opposite to the railway-station FERROVIA in Venice - in the foreground a seagull, trying to rest on a canal-pole...) - contribution to the contest 3 of the group 500x500
This was the second testing of the lights before this pedestrian bridge opens Sept 2015. Colors change depending on the height, flow, and temp of the Willamette River.
Sunlight filters through an overcast sky while crossing the Danube River with the ferry. Near Braila, Romania. (File: RPOP-2009-03-1297)
Another hidden gem in Allentown is the Mack Truck Museum and Customer Center. Housed in buildings that made up the original testing center for the plant, the museum is large and informative. Well laid out. Excellent tour. Knowledgeable docent.
Detail of the wall in the anechoic chamber. An anechoic chamber ("an-echoic" meaning non-reflective, non-echoing or echo-free) is a room designed to completely absorb reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves. They are also insulated from exterior sources of noise.
Shibuya Crossing, in the heart of Tokyo, almost certainly requires no introduction.
As the world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, it is a very well-recognized landmark of Tokyo and is often featured in countless media as an easy representation of Japan.
With as many as a few thousand people crossing at one time, one can blend in easily and go with the flow in motion.
This was a somewhat lucky but fun shot with a slow shutter speed of 1/4 sec to achieve the motion blur effect, that needed a lot of trial and error in the process.
No noise reduction was applied and some grain was added to give a filmic feel to the image.
2L69, the 1230 Leicester - Lincoln, crosses the River Soar on the rather handsome bridge with its solid cast iron pillars.
Thanks to Phil Grain and others for making me aware of the location. Wildlife report. Heron flew low over, reasonable number common blue butterflies.
20190422_5148_7D2-50 Flooded Crossing
Or Too Much Water!
We went for a drive to see a place known for it's 'Miracle Water', but at this river crossing we found the road washed out on the other side and the river flowing over the bridge. We also got a flat tyre/tire on the car, so had to change to the spare while trying to take pictures of a small digger trying to remove the trees (one about 20m/66' long) from beside the bridge. Photos of that procedure are still to be uploaded to flickr (very slow internet in Fiji).
With no spare we turned around and returned to Nasinu, Suva.
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