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[...] If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless [...]
-- Quote by Andrew the Apostle
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 fisheye, 8mm - f/13 - 0,77s
Madrid, Spain (June, 2019)
The Oval at Colorado State University was planned in 1909 and today marks what is perhaps "the" definitive icon of the university. 65 elm trees ring an oval lawn area, with a tunnel of elms right down the middle as seen here. My friends and I like to call this area the road to Narnia. ;-)))
By the way-- this now completes my goal to photograph this tunnel of trees each season over a year. Look for the mosaic with all four soon!
OR... yes, Anthony, I have goals.... and they might not be good ones, and they might not be realistic... but yes, I have goals. An ongoing conversation at work every Monday, where I can always be expected to be made fun of. But I'm OK with that....
Day 1 of getting back to running on a daily basis. It was good. How could it not be.... in the best sneakers I have ever purchased, and they go so nicely with my Captain America wear! And if anyone knows where I can get another pair of these (Under Armour... boys size 6.5 .. PLEASE let me know.... trying to find a pair for a friend of mine!)
For FGR which today is Tiny Words and Twinkle Lights Aren't Just for the Holidays.
I wanted to take a shot to mark finally reaching my goal of shifting the last of the baby weight - over two years after my littl'un was born. I'd like to lose a few more pounds but I am now officially at pre-pregnancy weight!
I'm not sure what my toddler thought mummy was doing - there was definitely some processing going on when daddy brought her in to see mummy in her underwear draped in fairy lights... I just hope she sleeps tonight (and this doesn't become her earliest memory)!
Oh and this is SOOC other than the crop and a slight cross process (couldn't resist).
I wish all my dear Flickr friends a wonderful New Year! 😊 May this year brings you lots of joy and all the possibilities to reach your goals!
Marola, La Spezia, Italia
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from Wikipedia.Big Boy ...
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) introduced the Challenger-type (4-6-6-4) locomotives in 1936 on its main line across Wyoming. For most of the way, the maximum grade is 0.82% in either direction, but the climb eastward from Ogden, Utah, into the Wasatch Range (Wahsatch, on the railroad) reached 1.14%. Hauling a 3,600-short ton (3,300 t) freight train demanded doubleheading and helper operations, and adding and removing the helper engines from a train slowed operations.
The answer was to design a new locomotive, but for such locomotives to be worthwhile they had to be faster and more powerful than slow mountain luggers like the earlier compound 2-8-8-0s that UP tried after World War I. To avoid locomotive changes, the new class would need to pull long trains at sustained speed—60 miles per hour (100 km/h)—once past the mountain grades. (The 1950s Wyoming Div timetables allowed them 50 mph or less, passenger or freight.)
Led by Otto Jabelmann, the UP's design team worked with Alco to re-examine the Challengers, which had been designed by A.H. Fetters. They found that the goals could be achieved by making several changes to the Challenger design, including enlarging the firebox to about 235 by 96 inches (6.0 m × 2.4 m) (about 155 sq ft/14.4 m2), lengthening the boiler, adding four driving wheels and reducing the size of the driving wheels from 69 to 68 in (1.753 to 1.727 m).
The Big Boys are articulated, like the Mallet locomotive design. They were designed for stability at 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). They were built with a heavy margin of reliability and safety, as they normally operated well below that speed in freight service. Peak horsepower was reached at about 35 mph (56 km/h); optimal tractive effort, at about 10 mph (16 km/h).
Without the tender, the Big Boy had the largest engine body of all reciprocating steam locomotives.
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For a bit of the background ...
* This engine, #4017, is at the National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
at maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=44.4646609686101&lon=-8
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
* To really appreciate the length of this locomotive and its 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement...www.steamlocomotive.com/bigboy/
A Vanarama National League football inthe back of the net at Victoria Park, Hartlepool on Saturday 2nd December 2017. (Credit: Mark Fletcher |Shutter Press)
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For more pictures of Vietnam please check my Vietnam trip 2014 diary.
We traveled over 3 hours from Hanoi to Halong Bay by bus. While we take a break I found this funny scene.
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Average people have wishes and hopes. Confident people have goals and plans.
www.millionairemindset.net/average-people-have-wishes-and...
Hope 2015 is off to a great start for you and the people you love. So far so good here.
I've done some thinking about goals for this year. All i really want to do are
1. Do 20 push up on my smiley muscles every morning
2. Invest time in myself and the people i love
3. Turn criticism to my own advantage
4. Be Mindfulness and kindfulness
5. Work on my meditation at least twice a week
6. Milk on my emotions with acknowledge, forgives, learn and laugh
7. Be as open as possible to what comes
8. Love my people with everything i've got each and every moment
And understanding that sometimes happiness is not something i do, but just the way i change the way i look at life.
Life is a wonderful thing. It really is.
I hope your year is full of peace, love, laughter, and great adventure.
Love to you and yours.
This photo is so special to me that I actually used a vacation day and took off from work just to get it. Kind of crazy I know, since it's not the most amazing of images, but one that has long been on my New England bucket list!
This is a place I first learned about decades ago when I purchased Scott Hartley's "Guilford: Five Years of Change." I was a young fan then new to railroading and eager to learn. While I already knew of the mighty Hoosac, this other long tunnel mentioned and shown on the last page of that book was heretofore unheard of to me and quite mysterious. Back in the 90s I made a trip to see it, but never saw a train...and filed it away as a a must have someday.
So what is this place you ask? This is the Terryville Tunnel and we are at the west portal of the nearly 7/10th's of a mile long bore on Pan Am's Waterbury Branch. This is a section of trackage that was not one of Pan Am's historic predecessors, but rather is former New Haven. When Conrail, the NH's successor in Connecticut, was looking to divest unprofitable lines during the Stanley Crane era the Boston and Maine acquired this trackage in 1982 from Berlin to Waterbury (and trackage rights down from Springfield to reach it from their own property). They acquired other former NH and B&A lines at that time as well but most have since been abandoned or sold to other operators, but this one has proven valuable enough to survive through the Guilford and Pan Am eras.
Historically this route was known as the Highland Line owing to it's rather hill and dale twisting route west from Hartford through New Britain, Plainville, and Bristol on to Waterbury and a connection with the Naugatuck Line. But going back further this was the route of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad. Construction began in Hartford in 1847 and by 1855 a through route across southern New England from Providence to Waterbury was open.
The HP&F ultimately became part of the New York and New England system in 1878. In 1882 the line west of Waterbury to Fishkill landing on the Hudson finally was completed and a decade later an even more important branch from Hopewell Junction to a connection with the Central New England Railroad's Poughkeepsie bridge was completed. In 1898 the New Haven leased the NY&NE where it would remain into the modern era. The extension from Danbury to the Poughkeepsie Bridge would be the only heavy haul mainline in modern times, and the rest of the system was relegated to secondary status owing largely to the rough terrain from which it gained the Highland moniker.
And that brings us to the tunnel. The route was still important enough in the early 20th century to warrant this massive investment. Construction of the tunnel through Sylvan Hill in Plymouth began in 1906 but wasn't completed until nearly 5 years later to eliminate the steep grades and horseshoe curves at Terryville. Ironically more than a century later those grades rain known as the Terryville Loop Track which is a long industrial lead with several important shippers.
This route hosted a thru Boston to Waterbury train until 1955 when the Midland Divison line was severed at Putnam. Local passenger service from Hartford to Waterbury lasted until about 1960 but since then it has been freight only under the aegis of the NH, PC, CR, B&M, and Pan Am.
And this bit of passenger history leads me to a personal story. My Dad has told me often how he remembers as a young child boarding a train with my Grandmother in Blackstone, MA to travel to Waterbury to visit relatives. Given his age and when the line was severed he would have had to have been 6 or younger and undoubtedly road in an Osgood Bradley coach pulled by one of my favorite model of diesels, the Alco DL109, sadly none of which survive. It's hard to imagine my young father peering out the window as they emerged from the darkness at this very spot some 65 or more years ago....
Anyway, as for the present, this is Pan Am local PL-1 creeping west thru the bore approaching MP 16 on the road's Waterbury Branch. Trailing a pair of B40-8s they have 30 empty c&d gons for handoff to the Naugatuck Railroad and one car of their own to spot.
Plymouth, Connecticut
Thursday July 16, 2020