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Forbes of Kingennie is a country retreat I spent the weekend at a few weeks ago. It’s a beautiful place where you can hire a lodge or a private cabin, spend an enjoyable day fishing in the well-stocked reserves, golfing on the private course or one of many other fun activities that I didn't get to try because I was daft enough to be getting up long before dawn to take photographs.
Actually the morning sunrise was so stunning that I’m pretty sure I got the better part of the deal and at least I wasn't among those that were so hungover that they could face the sun when eventually they did rise.
The shot is centred on the main building of the complex with rental lodges and holiday homes either side. Taken at approximately 5 minutes after the sun broke the horizon it was captured in a single frame taken over 15 seconds with an ND filter to help smooth what little movement there was in the water.
Forbes Island provides dining beneath the sea or on the white sand patios with incredible views of SF Bay, Downtown, Alcatraz, Sea Lions, Coit Tower & the Golden Gate Bridge
A pair of C40-8s (2131 + 2119) lead a train of loaded iron ore off the Missabe Sub onto the North Fairlane leg destined for Fairlane processing plant.
On a foggy morning, DMIR 400 guides a loaded Duluth bound taconite train out of the Fairlane Processing plant and onto the Canadian National Missabe Subdivision.
A pair of CN repainted Missabe tunnel motors are leading a C40-8 south with 145 loads of ore at Forbes. I haven't been back out to Minnesota since this trip, but from what I gather, the old DMIR ore cars are pretty well gone now and the older power used for the trains has been largely replaced by AC44C6Ms now.
DMIR #400, the first of twenty SD40-3s rebuilt at Proctor, leads U718, limestone empties from Minorca, across the rarely photographed steel bridge over the St. Louis River outside of Forbes, Minnesota.
A solo rebuilt CN SD75IACC leads M347 across the St. Louis River in Forbes, Minnesota, one of the first of a 50-unit order of SD75Is to be rebuilt by Progress Rail.
BLE 909 still sporting its orange scheme prepares to depart United Taconite’s Fairlane plant with train U717.
Rothschildia lebeau forbesi, a sub species of Lebeau's Silkmoth according to iNaturalist. or Rothschildia forbesi according to Bugguide.
This is the moth I have been posting closeups for a few days.
Looking east as first light dawns over the Swiss Alps. Taken from the Forbes Arête on the Aiguille du Chardonnet, France.
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A pair of CN C40-8s lead train U730 at Highway 16 in Forbes, MN. The train is coming from the Thunderbird Mine and is destined for UTAC.
The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Walsenburg Turn makes its way west into the fertile San Luis Valley.
Looking north from San Francisco late on a wintry afternoon, with the usual cast of characters decked out on floats by the pier, one tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to the west, and the hills of Marin County beyond, where the town of Sausalito lies along the slope descending into the Bay, and the ridge of 2,579' (786m) Mount Tamalpais towers above in the background.
CN 2031 and company roar to life departing United Taconite’s Fairlane plant at last light with another round of freshly baked taconite pellets heading for the twin ports.
After picking up three C40-8s at Keenan, Repainted IC SD40-3 6254 leads a six pack of standard cabs South through Forbes, MN on a rock train.
Low afternoon sun casting wonderful long shadows across the thawing snows of winter and two tiny figures approach the castle.
This from the Web:
Corgarff Castle is located slightly west of the village of Corgarff, in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. It stands by the Lecht road, which crosses the pass between Strathdon and Tomintoul.
Life
The castle was built around 1530 by the Elphinstone family and leased to the Forbes of Towie. In 1571 it was burned by their enemy, Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, resulting in the deaths of Margaret Campbell, Lady Forbes, her children, and numerous others, 26 in total, and giving rise to the ballad Edom o Gordon.
In May 1607 the castle was captured from Alexander, 4th Lord Elphinstone by Alexander Forbes of Towie and his companions, including a piper called George McRobie. They used hammers and battering rams to break down the gate, then fortified the house with a garrison of "Highland thieves and limmers".
In 1626 it was acquired by the Earl of Mar. In 1645 it was used as an assembly point by the troops of the Marquis of Montrose. It was burned again in both 1689 and 1716 by Jacobite supporters. It was resettled by the Forbes family in 1745 but had to be forfeited due to their Jacobite leanings.
In 1748 it was bought by the British government and rebuilt and extended as a barracks. A detachment of government troops were stationed there, on the military road from Braemar Castle to Fort George, Inverness. Military use continued as late as 1831, after which the tower was used to suppress illegal whisky distilling in the surrounding area. It remained part of the Delnadamph estate belonging to the Stockdale family until they passed the castle into state care in 1961 and gave the ownership of the castle to the Lonach Highland and Friendly Society.