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Amtrak #80, the northbound Carolinian, has just entered the joint CSX-NS doubletrack at Fetner interlocking in downtown Cary, NC in May, 1993. My photo.
The old slide bridge has been removed and has been replaced with a large box culvert. BNSF finally got the track and time to remove the old bridge and install a level section of track.
Saltcoats Station, North Ayrshire, Scotland, 2014. Opened in 1840 by the Ardrossan Railway. The station was relocated a short distance west of the original in 1858 and moved again to its present site in 1882.
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Rolling along the doubletrack near Varnell, NS 9584 leads a southbound coal train towards a power plant in Georgia.
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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