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These tiny little bowls (I have 12 in all) were a gift from an aunt. I’ve tried to find out about them but the most I could find was that they’re probably Chinese export porcelain made in the 1950’s. Each one is hand painted with a different figure with some tiny Chinese (I think) writing next to each one. I’d love to know what the words say so if any of you can understand the one you can see I’d be really interested!!
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An East bound Coal train on the James River Viaduct at Richmond , VA heading towards Newport News from where it will be shipped for exports. On the left side can be seen the famous Jefferson Hotel where the movie 'Gone with the Wind' was shot. The two Units in YN2 Paint scheme were still fairly common.
I'm on a mission, perhaps not attainable, to shoot all of the SD70s before they are rebuilt into those wide cab abominations. I'm not sure I'll get it done but we'll see.
Here's one of those spartan cab 70s, of the ex-Conrail variety, pulling mixer 10G into Enola Yard with a cut of Camrail exports fresh out of the GE plant in Erie.
Both of these, the standard cab and the Erie exports are on borrowed time. A two for one!
Another round of Pakistan GE locomotive exports round the bend into Enola, along with a British Rail Class 70 for Colas Rail. Pulling the high and wide load is SD70M-2 No. 2693.
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Under a crazy sky, exports bound for Egypt make their way east under the old N&W coaling tower in Vicker, VA behind an ES44AC.
4-14-2023
An interesting slice of history as cigarette advertising is now banned.
Same junk yard as where I found the two trucks. Reminds me of tv shows like American Pickers.
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On what may very well be the last export coal train on the Alaska Railroad the rear DPs cross Upper Trail Lake at Moose Pass, AK
A GE C40-8 and two GE C36-7s pull a Skyline, Utah - Los Angeles, California export coal train through Springville, Utah the afternoon of Feb. 23, 1992. It appears the Wasatch Mountains have received a dusting of new snow, including 11,753 Mt. Timpanogos, on the left.
Another batch of General Electric ES58ACi locomotives for VALE Mining in Brazil head down the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch. Train 098 is heading for Norfolk, VA where the locomotives will continue on to South America by ship.
DiB 03/14/2015
A Southbound BNSF freight, heavy with Canadian exports treads across the Mud Bay Trestle in Surrey, B.C.
On the 9th October 1998 Class 47/3 no.47348 passes South Moreton on the 6O67 1125 Washwood Heath to Dollands Moor conveying Rover cars for export.
Car maker, loco and power station all gone....and the line is electrified.
The next round of GEU-40 locomotives destined for Pakistan sits outside the GE Locomotive plant in Erie, PA.
These made their way toward Virginia through feet of snow yesterday, March 14th.
West Bay, also known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the mouth of the River Brit approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Bridport. The area is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.
The harbour at West Bay is not a natural landscape feature and it has a long history of having been silted up, blocked by shingle and damaged by storms, and each time repairs, improvements and enlargements have subsequently been made. The harbour has been moved twice: it was originally 1 mile (1.6 km) inland, then was moved to the coast beside the East Cliff, then was moved again 270 metres (300 yd) along the coast to the west, where it is located today.
The previous main commercial trade of the harbour—exporting Bridport's ropes and nets—declined in the second half of the 19th century. When the railway arrived in 1884, attempts were made to provide the settlement with the facilities of a resort, and today West Bay has a mixed economy of tourism and fishing.
Following on from the last two uploads, there seems to be a common theme occurring, it’s not worth going out the house these days there’s nothing left!
86608 & 86632 cruse past Mill Meece with 4M87 on Friday 5th June 2020, I’d wanted this shot for a number of years and had set my stall out to give it ago regardless of the poor forecast knowing time was running out for the AL6’s. Sometimes, not very often admittedly everything just drops into place, the sun wouldn’t have been on the front had it turned up on time but with issues at Northampton the train ended up running 30 late…
DB oil-burning 'Jumbo' 043 636-0 (running as 43 636) thunders through the drizzle at Salzbergen, with a heavy coke train for Emden Docks, on Saturday 20th August 1977.
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A pair of Norfolk Southern GP38-2s were curving through Penn-Mary with a H02 Bayview to Dundalk local.
Export farm equipment and vehicles were slowly heading through an industrial area of Baltimore.
A heavy loaded export ore train (CN U724) dips at the Amnicon River at Rockmont on the CN Superior Subdivision mainline. The train is starting to grind up the grade that crests at Hines. Good thing CN double-tracked the mainline here - it certainly makes a big difference with getting trains out of the Lake Superior Basin. For reference, the original mainline is on the left while the newer is to the right with a slight jog.
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While the Export Coal train runs no more I pulled this shot from the archives from a couple of summers ago. The three MAC are the DP units on this southbound coal train with three more up front. While it certainly doesn't look like all this horsepower is necessary it will be before long as to get to Seward the railroad must climb Grandview & Divide Hills both with grades around 3%. That is pretty steep even for a short 70 car coal train.
PN's 8803 passes over the bridge in Oonoonba, on hte outskirts of Townsville, with 6J77 export sugar train to Townsville Jetty.
A fairly crusty looking ex Nord (59) Departement, France Peugeot J9 van seen waiting for the boat to West Africa at a Dutch yard.
Cuando llegaron los castellanos a la región de Mesoamérica encontraron muchas riquezas y bienes que deseaban comerciar con Europa, pero establecieron un sistema por el cual todo producto era llevado primero a un puerto español y luego era conducido a otras partes del continente europeo. Esto molestó mucho a los comerciantes de otros países, sobre todo de Holanda, Francia e Inglaterra y algunos navegantes decidieron apropiarse de muchos de los bienes que eran transportados sin pagar por los productos, éstos eran los llamados bucaneros y piratas.
Así, fue construido el castillo de San Felipe en la desembocadura del lago de Izabal en el río Dulce, la principal salida de bienes producidos en el Reino de Guatemala hacia España.
En el período hispánico al istmo de Centro América y Chiapas se le conocía como Reino de Guatemala y al lago de Izabal como Golfo Dulce. Hacia 1595, debido a incursiones de piratas el entonces Presidente de la Audiencia, Francisco de Sandé, escribió al monarca para informar de seis incursiones de bucaneros. Sandé narraba “trataré de ver si en el Golfo Dulce puede haber remedio” en contra de la presencia de navegantes no españoles. Un año después, dice Sandé, para cobrar impuestos ya se había construido un torreón redondo, a unos 15 metros sobre el nivel del lago, en un promontorio del lado noreste del lago de Izabal, en su parte más angosta, además allí se guardaban algunos productos. El 1 de noviembre de 1596, bucaneros ingleses asaltaron la torre y robaron cueros que se iban a embarcar a España y dañaron el edificio.
Durante el siglo XVII el comercio entre el Reino de Guatemala y España se estancó por el declive naval de España y otros problemas económicos, lo que causó una crisis en el Reino de Guatemala, por eso el comercio por el Golfo Dulce disminuyó mucho.
A mediados de esa centuria, en 1651, el Presidente interino de la Audiencia, Antonio de Lara y Mongrovejo, ordenó que se construyera un terraplén en el antiguo torreón y le dio el nombre del rey español, así fue conocido como San Felipe.
Eran tiempos de recuperación económica, un nuevo producto se introducía en el mercado europeo, el añil, que se producía en la región de Escuintla hasta El Salvador. Éste se empacaba en Chiquimula y se llevaba a embarcar al Golfo Dulce.
Para mejorar las defensas en el viejo torreón, en 1669 el ingeniero Martín de Andújar visitó San Felipe y lo describió como “cubo redondo de diez o doce varas de diámetro, cubierto de paja, con los parapetos de tablas bien maltratados, con siete piezas en cabalgadas y otras tres en el suelo, junto al mismo cubo, con su parapeto hecho por el castellano Claudio Pérez de Lorenzana”.
Sin embargo, las obras formales de reconstrucción fueron iniciadas por orden del Presidente Jacinto Barrios y Leal, el 15 de febrero de 1688, por el ingeniero militar Andrés Ortiz de Urbina, quien tenía encargo del monarca de proceder al trazo de los planes de las fortificaciones del Reino de Guatemala. La obra que se emprendió en San Felipe duró cerca de siete meses. La transformación realizada en el castillo, desde entonces es prácticamente la que se ha conservado hasta la fecha y la que se puede visitar.
En el siglo XVIII otros puertos se hicieron más visitados por las embarcaciones y la caída de las exportaciones del añil, a finales de esa centuria hicieron que el Golfo Dulce perdiera importancia económica. En el siglo XIX Santo Tomás de Castilla, primero, y Puerto Barrios después, fueron los puertos de entrada y salida de productos por vía marítima, por lo que el Castillo perdió para siempre su importancia estratégica y quedó como recuerdo de otros tiempos.
Debido a su atractivo turístico, el Castillo de San Felipe está a cargo del Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, pero recientemente la estructura sufrió varios daños por las visitas constantes de turistas, por lo que el Instituto de Antropología e Historia participó en un proyecto de restauración en 2001 y ahora está abierto otra vez.
Locomotive 45 188 with freight train 48121 carrying sand from Vetovo to Turkey caught shortly after changing direction at Sindel. On the back of the train is locomotive 44 102 of BDZ Cargo.
Back to the current day and in comparison to yesterday's upload, a shortline that is very much not shabby in appearance. Mississippi Export keeps their power painted and quite sharp in their traditional black and gold, and the new 6-axle pair has the Evanston Road Switcher rolling through Agricola on a perfect November morning.