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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

~Edward Abbey

First Manchester: 69572 (BD13 OHL) a Wright Eclipse 2 bodied Volvo B7RLE, painted in corporate livery but with hardly any names applied and just a couple of smallish First logos. This vehicle is captured here on the stand in Shudehill Interchange waiting to operate a journey on Service 92 to Bury.

 

© Christopher Lowe.

Date 2nd February 2014.

Ref No. 0035271.

GML10 & G511 lead a late running 1146 to freo! This was GML10 first time leading after finally getting a radio put into it out of GL102

This is what I miss about First no longer operating in Plymouth, the random variety thrown up, well before 'bustimes.org' existed you never quite knew what might appear while waiting with the camera!

There were a few not so well presented buses but on the whole I always thought the Plymouth fleet was well turned out and the drivers friendly on the whole.

A none standard type vehicle within the group at this late stage it came to Devon with 3 others via Glasgow when First took over Hutchinson Coaches, Overtown.

Of course with First long gone from here the 2 services continues in the hands of Stagecoach but you won't find anything this rare operating on it these days!

With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. A plow truck on Davisville Road is ready but not needed for the two inches of powder that fell, just enough to make everything pretty, but not enough to necessitate any cleanup work.

 

The Seaview crew is doing a bit of switching in the east end of the Ocean State Yard near MP 2 on the Davisville Branch side of the railroad, and after gathering up their cars they will back west to the junction and then down the Quonset side to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.

 

SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.

 

To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP

 

North Kingstown, Rhode Island

Monday December 12, 2022

nikon EM, ilford delta 400

A group of Sandhill Cranes and a single Whooping Crane fly over the Horicon Marsh after the first snowfall of the winter season. Fall migration is happening right now!

My first Echinacea (cone flower) of this year, Please view large ...#422

A somewhat overdue first haircut

The first Poppy to flower in our new garden. Martin grew them from seed. I do like the dark maroon colour of this one HFF! Continuing my 100 Flowers 2017 project

Seen at Stafford Station

19th February 2023

First South Yorkshire 'Sheffield' BD11CFA seen coming into Rotherham Interchange on service 142 Rotherham circular

First Potteries "Leek Link" YN06TDV 65030 seen leaving Hanley Bus Station on service 7A to Biddulph

Went on a snowy walk today.

Waterloo Station. This bus was originally London Transport M451

Lake Sils and Piz de la Margna, Engadin, Switzerland.

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Tried something new. I'd always wanted to catch a train near the old station stop of Hinton, CA, just east of Truckee. When the dispatcher ushered three trains out of Sparks on this late afternoon, I jammed to the end of Hirschdale Road. I was treated to a magnificent vista of the tracks and the river.

 

Here, the westbound KMNOA (Marion, AR to Oakland, CA Premium Intermodal) rolls up the canyon at a good clip.

 

© 2015 Patrick Dirden Photography

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First West Yorkshire 'Leeds City' YE69YHA 35637 seen in Leeds City Centre parked out of service on Eastgate

A magical morning I witnessed post snowfall in the vicinity of Great Himalayan National Park, India.

 

Full-screen view recommended.

Feist was quite happy with it. Sixteen weeks old. :)

First snow of the season, sifted over a lovely farmhouse

Twin Peaks, San Francisco

First Manchester: 60420 (L514 KSA) a Wright Cityranger bodied Mercedes Benz O.405N, painted in First Group corporate livery. It is seen here passing the exit of Manchester's Shudehill Interchange operating a journey on Service 51 to North Manchester General Hospital.

 

© Christopher Lowe.

Date: 22nd October 2007.

Ref No. IMG_1480/JL.

First Glasgow 64127 at Buchanan Bus Station on service X8 to Pollok. 09th October 2022.

Photos taken during a break at work as a key worker. Social distance and face covering guidance kept to at all times.

 

First York 49903 on service 12 to Monks Cross. 18th March 2021.

Broadmead, Bristol, 18th November 2015.

Seen here on Bolton Moor Lane bus station on training

Seen here at Brislington Park & Ride on the Bristol Vintage Bus Group Avon Valley Railway Rally

First Leicester SN65OKE 35153 seen coming into Leicester Haymarket bus station on service 14 to Beaumont Leys

Even though Sortelha gets very little tourist movement, there's a bar open at the main square. Here the first customer of the day received her morning coffee.

First 47458 in Motherwell on service 266 to Shotts. 19th April 2022.

(#10 in Explore Jan. 10, 2026)

As day breaks, first light washes the peaks of Hamnøya in warm gold, while a faint rainbow arcs through retreating clouds and reflects softly on the still waters of the Lofoten Islands.

 

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