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Not a cornfield meet although it did happen in a cornfield, double track and both trains are headed east, DPU and another train catching up. This was almost a really nice sunset shot with the sun between two trains. Unfortunately the trailing speedster closed the gap just before both moving trains lined up with the sunset just off to the right of this view. August 10, 2023.
I rode up to Cathedral Park in St Johns for this week's coffee outside. From there I headed south to the Portland Farmers Market to get my breakfast burrito from Enchanted Sun.
As always I took a mildly circuitous route through alleys — some paved and some unpaved doubletrack. I rode some singletrack, sort of, through former industrial areas and even passed through a Superfund site.
I have this ride up on Ride with GPS: ridewithgps.com/trips/94537423
during stage six of the 2010 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race between Worcester and Oak Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa on the 26 March 2010
Photo by Sven Martin/SPORTZPICS
TransPennine class 185 traveling on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) near Overton, North Yorkshire, England, 2016
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Karin and I rode the Bangtail Divide Trail on July 13, 2006. There's several ways you can ride this trail but most people probably climb up some gravel road and double track that meets up with the trail about halfway, then they'll ride down the amazingly fun northern section to get to the Brackett Creek trailhead pictured here (at this point they will be all happy smiles, no doubt :) From the trailhead, they'll ride their bikes on the road back to their car. Based on the official trailmap, that's the Grassy Mountain trail.
Karin and I decided to go out and back instead, we started here, climbed about 2000 feet and reached the doubletrack. We then continued up the trail (which on the official trailmap is called Olson to Stone), rode some really fun sections and some others that were more atv style through clearcuts. We turned around a while before the trail started going downhill towards the southern Stone Creek trailhead. Going back, there's some ups and downs until you reach the summit from where there are some 1500 feet of awesome descent. We had a blast! :)
Connecting the new track the old mains. This project was to remove a section of short single track though a slide prone area. We removed an old bridge, widened the ROW, installed a box culvert, and now BNSF is adding the double track.
375 (Bellevue - A&S St. Louis) rolls down the CNO&TP on doubletrack. It will stop soon short of the single track to allow the passage of hot intermodal 216 before continuing its journey. Judging by NS's system map, 375 is taking the long way to StL.
Alta Via del Sale. In torrential downpour. For the whole day from 9 am to nightfall.
It was Alps Divide Day two for me. This weather was forecasted, but the extend and intensity was extraordinary. And it’s not me saying this. This came from quite a lot of very experienced people. Even people living in the UK and in Scotland and who have participated in events like Silkroad Mountain Race. E.g. both @Jennytough and @nielcopeland said this rain had broken the scale.
And wow - I literally rode through rivers running across the trails. At times just one side, at times on both sides. And it was chunky. As usual, the photos don’t do the real roughness of the surface justice. It was no mellow riding. It wouldn’t have even on good gravel surface as I did 3.400 meters of climbing on that day. But indeed it was a constant search for rideable lines over the chunky trails. Right through the middle of the streams running down the trails or next to it.
As long as I was moving and moving upwards the temperature weren’t that much of a problem. But for the descending parts the wet body had few reserves. Still not at the halfway mark, after quite a bit of a descending part and still 20 km from the next rifugio (i.e. more than 2 hours away) I was shivering so hard once stopped. Luckily I found a small opportunity to pull out my puffy jacket under a bit of shelter and put in on under my rain jacket. It took a while to stop shivering after staring to move again, but I finally could comfortably „swim“ all the rest of the Via Sale. It took me until well after dusk, when the rain finally subsided a little above Tende but gave way to dense and wet fog.
This was quite the experience.
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The Forth Bridge from Dalmeny Station with a ScotRail class 158, South Queensferry, Lothian, Scotland, 2015.
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Heading into a big snowshed. Donner Lake in the valley. Snow getting
heavy.
From the end of the westbound Amtrak California Zephyr.
The last shot of the day taken from the road bridge parapet to take a shot of something I couldn't see. I guess I got lucky.
The fake brick platform (it is poured concrete with a brick pattern) gleams after a severe summer thunderstorm has passed through.
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“ - The Eventide Harmonizer is an electronic tone-bender. ` I use it as an effect to add a double identical twin to Benny's piano. Björn's acoustic guitar or Agnetha and Frida's vocals. l can then turn it slightly off the original pitch so it sounds like a doubletrack, only it's instantaneous! Very ABBA!"