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Decorated for the holidays, Fore Street is extremely colorful during the blue hour of twilight. I wanted to get a shot of this street for my 'Maine Streets' series, and the rainy conditions really are perfect for scenes like this.
Hull (City of Culture) and a beautiful sun set on the Hessle fore shore. Pentax K7 & Tamron 18-250mm do it all lens.
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Just another frame from this superb day.
The Fore River Railroad B23-7 101 (blt. in Jul. 1979 as CR 1992) has just shoved down the middle of Wharf Street on a short stretch of about 250 ft of street running and has backed into the Twin Rivers Technologies plant at Shipyard Point alongside the Weymouth Fore River. This is the larger of the railroad's two customers, the other being the Massachusetts Water Resources fertilizer plant.
Twin Rivers Technology LLC, a manufacturer of industrial inorganic chemicals (rendering of glycerin, fatty acids) is particularly busy pumping out hand sanitizer given the state of the world in 2020. Twin Rivers purchased the former Proctor & Gamble soap plant in 1994 and in 2007 the company was purchased by FGV a Malaysian Global Agribusiness company that was originally and arm of the Malaysian government agency FELDA but was taken public in 2012.
Twin Rivers is the owner of Fore River Transportation, the contract operator of the Fore River Railroad which is owned by MWRA, a state agency.
I've written extensively about the Fore River before, but if you missed it check out the caption with this older photo: flic.kr/p/2juf2nG
Quincy, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020
The etymology for the word "Fore!" is not absolutely certain. The Oxford English Dictionary records its first use in 1878 as a warning cry to people in front of a golf stroke and, like most people, believes it is an abbreviation of the word 'before'. There is an earlier reference in 1857 in a glossary of golfing terms.
Currently there are three explanations for the origins of term FORE!
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Been working in my garden all day ~ another beautiful day ~ so what now? Yes, some sport and nothing like a round of golf, early evening, with my golfing buddy Jimbo!!
Hope everyone is having - or has had - a great day!!
FOR HEIDI ~ No, Jimbo isn;t holding the driver I am!! The camera was set-up by myself, I then took hold of my driver and my wife (Jane) pressed the remote ;-)
Our Daily Challenge - SPORT .....
Fore River caboose #01 brings up the markers on their return trip from working the CSX interchange at S. Braintree.
I saw the skies building the other day and jumped up. I was in soupy skies until then. I'm all about skies and a front was moving into the St.Vrain area. I drove right down to Golden "gravel" Ponds keeping my eye on a lot of sky. It's open at Golden and is good spot to view full skies especially when they are streaming from the Rockies and the Divide. I'll be adding this to my Clouds and Sky album. No blank sky is in this view; a lot of streaming that day. These kinds of skies could really delay our spring. None of the Rockies are visible behind this wall of clouds.
The wind was brisk and had a bit of a chill. It blew my best shot away moments before I parked. Newcomers are in shock at the advent of possible snow in April. I've been up at Wild Basin for a July snow. Kiss snow goodbye because we are cranking up new record warming months, eclipsing last year which eclipsed the year before, all served up by the fossil fuelers, their Kochstaff and all their Bozostan followers. All life has expiration dates now. This sky was in the cool month of April, 2016, "Year of the Crash," brought to us again by the unrestricted Wall Street 1%er greed who are once again feeding on health care. The crash should turn back industrial pollution for a spell. Oh that's right, that moved to China. It's only the people who will suffer. If you want health care, go to a Canadian doctor and not a Wall Streeter bank. They are busy right now rewriting their fantasy stress test. They flunked the first round.
Today, there will be plenty of weather panics on Denver TV to scare the feeble. Their job is to spread fear and viewership. Would that folks afraid of snow simply leave Colorado and not return even to smoke.
Any excuse to practice his swing, this little guy is a pro at getting a hole in one! Shame my ice creams have to suffer!
Mass Coastal 2009 leads the evening trash train north on the Cape Main passing the Cummaquid Golf Club in Barnstable. 2009 is a GP28 that was originally built for the Illinois Central in 1964. The locomotive received some extensive mechanical work this winter in Mass Coastal's shop in Hyannis. With sixteen new power assemblies in place 2009 is good as new and made quick work accelerating fourteen loads uphill for the trek north to the SEMASS tipper at Rochester.
765 skirts the Cuyahoga just south of Peninsula. The hike to this spot required a trek across an abandoned golf course...definitely made things easier!
Near the base of USS Salem, a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser built and today located at the (former) Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA in the mid-1940's.
Took this several years back with an Agfa Isolette III camera using Kodak Portra 120 roll film, ISO 400 . Developed negative scanned into digital format. Edited with Photoshop Elements and NIK Silver Efex Pro software.
Panorama of the Fore River taken from the Weymouth (MA) side with Quincy across the River and the remnants of the old Fore River Ship Yard which closed in 1986. The ship to the right is the USS Salem which currently serves as a naval museum.
This is one of Southern New England's smallest and most obscure railroads. Fore River Transportation based in Quincy operates a scant 2.7 mile mainline down to a connection with the MBTA Greenbush Line at Shipyard interlocking and another mile or so of trackage around Quincy. There they run less than a mile to Adams Junction to take the south leg of the wye on to the MBTA Middleboro mainline at GREEN for a short run of less than a half mile down to Braintree yard where they interchange with CSXT that comes up from Middleboro five nights a week with local B729 to handle their own customers and the interchange.
One of the most appealing things about the Fore River is that they still roster a pair of GE B23-7s. These are the class 1 local units of my youth, and they were ubiquitous on Conrail and the P&W all over southern New England throughout the 1990s. But upon the split in 1999 they were quickly banished elsewhere by CSXT and then retired and P&Ws fell by the wayside in favor of newer GEs. But here on this little road two of the classic little 12 cylinder FDL GEs still burble along in rvenene service, and both once proudly wore Conrail blue. #101 was blt. in Jul. 1979 as CR 1992 and #102 was blt. in Jul 1978 as CR 1980.
As for the railroad itself here is a a bit of history. The Fore River railroad was developed by Thomas A. Watson, assistant to telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Watson used his telephone profits to start an engine and boat factory in East Braintree, “The Fore River Shipyard Engine Company.” In 1898, Watson’s company was commissioned by the U.S. Navy to build 2 destroyers and a cruiser.
In 1900 the company moved to a new facility at Quincy Point where the 3 vessels were completed. At first, transporting heavy materials to Watson’s new shipyard was a slow and expensive process; the nearest railroad ended over 2 miles away, in East Braintree. Rail shipments had to be unloaded in Braintree, hauled to the Fore River, and finally, floated to Quincy. In 1902, Watson had a private rail line built along the river to bring supplies directly from Braintree to the shipyard. Operations began on June 1, 1903.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation purchased the Fore River Shipyard and Railroad just before World War I. During the war, shipyard workers built 36 destroyers and several zero class and R class submarines.
In 1919, the Fore River Railroad was formally incorporated as separate holding from the Bethlehem Steel shipyard. During World War II, the Fore River Railroad Corporation's steam locomotives carried over 750,000 tons of construction materials for U.S. Navy cruisers, battleships, destroyers and aircraft carriers, including the Lexington. General Dynamics Corp. purchased the shipyard and railroad in 1963.
After the yard closed in 1986, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority acquired the shipyard and railroad. From 1987-1992, MWRA used Fore River facilities as a staging area and transportation system for the Boston Harbor Project. MWRA sold most of its shipyard property upon completion of the project but retained the railroad to transport its Bay State Fertilizer.
Fore River Railroad is the underlying owner of the property and holds the common carrier obligations for the line, but operation of it is contracted out. In the late 80s and through the 90s the line was operated by the Quincy Bay Terminal, an affiliate of New Hampshire's New England Southern, but in 2000 FRVT took over. FRVT is a Class III railroad owned by its largest customer, Twin Rivers Technology LLC, a manufacturer of industrial inorganic chemicals (rendering of glycerin, fatty acids). Twin Rivers purchased the former Proctor & Gamble soap plant in 1994 and in 2007 the company was purchased by FGV a Malaysian Global Agribusiness company that was originally and arm of the Malaysian government agency FELDA but was taken public in 2012.
There is your dose of totally non train related information to accompany this photo!
Here sitting outside of the small modern single track shop built and owned by MWRA are two of the FRVT's three active units. At left is GE B23-7 101 (blt. in Jul. 1979 as CR 1992) and at right is EMD GP38 7750 (blt. in Jun. 1969 as PC 7694) and still wearing the PRR inspired colors of prior owner Juniata Terminal. Not visible inside the shop is another B23-7, number 102 (blt. in Apr. 1979 as CR 1980).
Quincy, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020