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Looking up at the upper 30m high iced waterfall, first melt reveals pristine river rock between the upper and lower waterfalls of the Crescent Falls
A skiff of snow over everything. It rained last night and then froze and then it snowed . It has lasted all day.
The sunlight peeks over the northern Presidential Range lighting up the autumn forest with the rest of the White Mountains as a backdrop.
Whitefield, NH
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These two are some of my fave My Scene girls. I call them Jo and Carrie. I even managed to capture some sunlight in these pics! I must've brought the sun back with me from Greece, because in these hemispheres it's been shining with its absence all autumn.
Yellowstone NP: Day 6
My personal high point of the trip was when we stumbled upon three bull elk with their harems on the same ridgeline near Mammoth at first light.
Although the light was poor and we were forced to shoot at high ISO, simply watching the interaction between the bulls was amazing. Although the pecking order had obviously already been established through previous battles it was awesome to watch the false charges, bugling, and the posturing of the bulls when another came to close. A great show for over an hour before they disappeared over the ridge.
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... out of the nest
A couple of great tits nested in our garden. I was fortunate to watch the first excursion of the young birds
Plaxton Pointer Dennis Dart SLF new 11/1997 as York Pullman, Elvington 131 Taken at Showbus 2016 Donington Park
With thanks to the driver for temporarily altering the destination screen for the purposes of the photograph
First snowfall of the season and i am loving it! Last time i had snow, i was on the other side of the world living in China. It's so good to be home for winter this year ♥
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For the entirety of my more than two decades growing up in New England catching a train on the old Milford Branch beyond Franklin eluded me, but here is my third train in less than a week! Of course you've seen many posts of my chases of CSXT local B733 making its weekly Wednesday trips to Bellingham for Bluelinx and Garelick, including shots from Thursday that may be the last. And you've seen my photos of the crazy MBTA/Keolis detour trains last summer and the GEO train just this past Sunday.
But now here is a third railroad. This is Grafton and Upton local GU1 making the first freight move ever on their new rights on the Milford Industrial. On Monday they are expected to make their first revenue run to service the customers in Bellingham that they are assuming from CSXT. But in order to be able to access the Milford Industrial they had to move a string of hoppers that were blocking their own line between Hopedale and the rebuilt junction. The decision was made to shove this string up to end of track in the remains of the old Milford Yard.
Here is they are with their twin ex SCL MP15ACs in patched CSXT blue blocking Depot Street in Milford. These cars are allegedly still loaded with ilmenite ore tailings that were hauled out of Tahawas at the far northern end of the old Delware and Hudson Adirondack Branch. The cars were moved by Iowa Pacific's defunct Saratoga and North Creek and have been stored at various places for quite some time, including for a time on the Mass Coastal Railroad down towards Wareham.
The entire cut of cars would not fit between switches, and rather than shove the rest into the old runaround they cut away to clear and brought five back to Hopedale Yard. This was as far as they got but it still made for a neat photo of a real freight train (if only storage cars) in town, the first since CSXT's last customer closed in early 2018. And with a little imagination one could pretend these were loaded with anthracite for local homes and business to be unloaded on the spur behind the Barney Fuel building at left.
To learn more about this former New Haven line and three other rail routes that once radiated from this town check out the extensive detailed caption with this image of one of the detour trains that ran last summer:
Milford, Massachusetts
Thursday January 28, 2021
First Manchester BF63HDO 69539 seen on High Street, Manchester on service 59 to Oldham Mumps Interchange
First Leicester 33728 (SN12 ALO) on Prospect Way, Daventry, with an inbound BHX3 service to Amazon.
3rd April 2023.
The story of Go-Coach running a new "Fastrack" branded route to serve the new Amazon Distribution Centre built on the site of the former Littlebrook Power Station became very real on Thursday 22nd April 2021 when LCBS Green liveried Enviro 400, 9001 SK07 DZA was taken to Bluewater where it was used to transport interested parties around various roads planned for the new operation. The visit focussed mainly on the William Munday Way and Burroughs Drive sections in Dartford.
Pictured here on what is believed to be the first visit of a bus to Burroughs Drive, Dartford, 9001 stands at the only eastbound stop while members of the travelling party review the road layout to ensure there are no hazards.
AD Trident - AD Enviro400 10.1m. (Ex-Quality Line (Epsom Coaches Group) DD01 & RATP ADE40293)