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The Dyers stone quarry has long been a major carload supplier along the former Reading Belt Line. On a crisp August morning, a set of fresh-looking Conrail power, four GP38-2’s and an SD40-2, has dropped their empties at the quarry. Now the crew will assemble an outbound train most likely consigned to Conrail as ballast.
In the medina of Marrakech I found this wool dyeing factory. The wool is intended for carpet knotting.
Things to do in a blizzard.
I was bored of watching TV so I got out a glass vase and thought I'd try out some food dye droplets.
It wasn't quite as hard as I thought it would be. Getting things in focus was soo much harder.
I place a fork in the middle of the vase and set the focus to that.
Then, I had fun with adding droplets of dye.
I took a short video which was much more fun to watch than a still.
I could really love a Lava Lamp.
Better than a TV any day!
Machinery from the start of the industrial revolution in an abandoned dye house. Part of a much larger abandoned textile factory in the West Country.
MNR 901 South has lost about half of it's track speed as it absolutely screams upgrade out of Oakfield Yard, seen here passing through Dyer Brook.
One ounce samples of Kool Aid dyed yarns. Ripple afghan?
From a couple of years ago, during a brief and intense Kool Aid phase.
Just the other day I came across a few more colors that I didn't have before (Piña and Jamaica) and there are a few packets from trips to Canada, Mexico, and Panama that I haven't tested out yet. Maybe soon.
Filament from incandescent light bulb combined with yellow food dye. The fluid is retained by capillarity and surface tension. The tungsten filament is 46 micrometers in diameter (human hair is approximately 70 micrometers).
Where Dyer Brook flows quickly down this gorge, under the bridge I am standing on and into the Pemigewasset (Pemi) River behind me. After two days of solid rain, these falls sound and look great right now!
Innocence, torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality, I'm living blindly...
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Running around Sacramento's midtown on a winter's day...
Love these simple curved radius end neon signs...
17th century water mill, formerly used as a dye works, Lumsdale, Matlock, UK
Single exposure with a torch, no photoshop.
Hides are dried and cured in the sun here, before being dyed in pits in the medina in Fes. The leather is then turned into many different products. See www.flickr.com/photos/halifaxlight/12488210603/in/set-721... for the pits beneath where the dyeing is done.
Q642 is rushing through the jungles of Dyer, iN as he heads north. He's crossing the old abandoned Michigan Central and the very active CN's ex EJ&E back in July, 2014. He's in a hurry as he has only 30 minutes to clear the Monon Sub before the southbound Amtrak shows up. Two SD50s, both unrebuilt at the time, provide the muscle. The leader is a former Seaboard 50 and the trailer once wore Chessie paint for the C&O. To add a touch of pizazz, the 8542 has mismatched number boards, just for our viewing pleasure.
The photographer's best friend, golden light, shines on K500, the now discontinued ore train, as it heads south through Dyer, IN, back in November of 2015. There's rumors that ore trains might be running again on CSX's Monon sub, since the processing plant in Reynolds, IN has been sold to new interests. I miss the variety that these former ore trains offered, running many times with unexpected foreign line power. You can see the shadows from those newly planted evergreens are lapping at the base of the rails. As the trees grow larger, they'll become more of a problem.