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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.
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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.
At dusk, CN/DMIR No. 405 (ex-SP SD45T-2R 6767) eases its ore empties through the Fairlane mine switch for another round of loads.
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.
BLE 909 still sporting its orange scheme prepares to depart United Taconite’s Fairlane plant with train U717.
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.
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.
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.
The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Walsenburg Turn makes its way west into the fertile San Luis Valley.
This is the same species of moth I have been posting closeups of this week.
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For the second time in less than a week I was back at this famous morning photo location for another special unit, and this time the tide was a bit higher.
Outbound Keolis/MBTA train 21 from North Station to Rockport, led by a double headed consist of F40PH-3C 1025 and newly rebuilt GP40MC 1776, is seen crossing the old wood pile trestle over Mill Creek where it empties into tidal Chelsea Creek. This bridge is at MP 5.88 on the MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline and marks the boundary between the towns of Chelsea and Revere. While this former Boston & Maine route is still very busy with commuter trains, it is now completely devoid of any freight trains since BO-1 made its last run in August 2023.
Newly released and testing in revenue service, 1776 is the newest 'heritage unit', the sixth of the MBTA's planned 8 (or maybe 10) unit fleet of 'heritage' locomotives dressed in one of a kind colors. While the first five were painted to pay homage to the system's early years and its historic predecessors this one wears red, white and blue in honor of the 250th Anniversary of American independence. This stunning contribution to an ever growing list of patriotic locomotives done up by railroads from coast to coast could also be considered a true 'heritage unit' as the scheme very faithfully mirrors that worn by Boston and Maine Railroad 200, a GP38-2 specially painted for the Bicentennial a half century ago.
The derelict buildings on the peninsula at left are in the abandoned Forbes Industrial Park in Chelsea. What was once the site of Forbes Lithograph Company was planned to be turned into a high-end housing community, but legal battles have kept this from happening. Forbes manufactured wrappers, labels, and 'invasion money' during World War II and was even a Boston & Maine station stop for decades.
Revere, Massachusetts
Wednesday June 24, 2026