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I taught a 5th and 6th grade photography class at Escuela Integrada a couple of weeks ago while in Guatemala. My group brought and donated a dozen cameras (most of them brand new canon elf 180's). It was amazing how good the students were with just twenty minutes of instruction!
An old Horse-drawn grader, one of the antique farm implements on display at the Richfield Historical Park, Richfield WI.
The Lancaster Canal dates from the 1790s and was intended to run from Kendal to Westhoughton via Lancaster, but it was never completed. Subsequently it has been cut in three places, and now finishes at Tewitfield, near Carnforth. In the south it ends at Preston. This northern part near Farleton is now redundant and has no traffic, though there is a nice walk through lovely countryside along the towpath.
The bridge over the canal was known as Duke's Bridge, after a nearby pub, and is thought to date from around 1816. It is Grade II-listed.
Still tackling the steep 2.8% average "Camelback Grade" westbound into Canton, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Southern's 4 pack of EMD's thunder up the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch.
Here's a photo I've been wanting to take for literally five or six YEARS!! This sign marks the summit of CPKC's Stockton Hill, the 5-mile, 1.7% grade climbing west out of the Mississippi River valley. Just in the past year, at least two westbounds have stalled out here, forced to double the hill! The Waseca Sub here is basically my favorite place in the world to watch trains, but with CP running here after dark much of the time, and me living an hour away and not hearing about trains till they get way west of here, this pic was not happening. Then one day, it all clicked!! We got an early heads up on Train 255. They were light, only 50 cars. So they were early into Winona. They had no work at Mn City. Relief crew on time. No waiting for the warrant. Even the high clouds hanging over the sun cleared out less than 5 minutes before 7049's nose came around that corner! God just wanted to bless me and my kids!!!!!
The Saluda Grade is the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway in the USA and opened in July 1878. The three mile railway grade ranged from 3.7%- 4.7%.
The railway line was constructed to connect Spartanburg, South Carolina, Asheville and North Carolina through the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has been out of service since 2001.
Since 2001 the vibrant green vegetation around the railway has started to rapidly grow over the tracks and in some sections completely engulfed the railway. Beneath some of the railway it has been heavily eroded, which has caused many railway ties to become detached from the railway lines.
Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Norwich, Dating from 1096, the structure, which has been continually repaired, modified and extended, mainly dates from Norman times. It sits at the centre of The Close, a community occupying what was once the grounds of the Benedictine monastery. The Cathedral and most of the associated ecclesiastic buildings are Grade 1 listed, much of The Close is Grade 2*. It has the second-largest cloisters, and the second-tallest spire in England.
City of Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia, England - Norwich Cathedral, The Close
January 2025
That's a stark contrast between the grades of the original 1868/69 alignment in the foreground and the steeper but straighter alignment of the Harriman era. Both tracks meet again at Emory in Echo Canyon
A rail train emerges from the deep cut of the newer eastbound track.
Wahsatch, Utah
May 11, 2019
A McCloud River Berry Job grinds away up the grade from Lake Britton. The train is nearing Cayton siding, where a diatomaceous earth reload was established in 1986.
CN 2016 leads an ore train down the grade to Two Harbors, MN, where the cars will be pushed onto the ore dock and dumped to fill the pockets on the dock in order to load the lakeboats.
Finally forced myself to cover LEGO PF motors with some greebling. The black battery awaits a sticker (and so does the door) but other than that - this part of the model is finished.
What I need now are the new, long and expensive linear actuators to finish the backhoe arm.
The Grade II Listed War Memorial Cemetery Gateway, Spilsby Road, in Wainfleet an ancient port and market town in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
It was built in 1918 and has a plaque inscribed with the names of the fallen in between 1914 and 1918. Entablature surmounted by large inscription block inscribed: "Erected in memory of the men of Wainfleet All Saints who fell in the Great War".
The name "Wainfleet" is derived from Wegn fleot, a stream that can be crossed by a wagon (compare with 'wainwright', a maker of wagons). The town stands on or near the former Roman settlement of Vainona. Two tumuli, one to the north and one to the south of the town, are of unknown origin, although it has been suggested that they could be Viking or Roman. A number of coins from the period have been found in the vicinity. In Domesday, Wainfleet is referred to as 'Wenflet'.
The parish church of All Saints was built in 1820-21 following the demolition of a previous medieval church of the same dedication, using part of the old church's material. A further church, St Thomas, had been destroyed by this time. During the demolition of All Saints the tomb of Richard Patten, father of William of Waynflete, was broken up but was later restored within Waynflete's Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford.
William of Waynflete founded the town's Magdalen College School in 1484 and obtained for the town a charter of incorporation in 1457. The school building is Grade I listed and houses a museum.
In 1847 Barkham Street, a 'London-style' terrace was commissioned by Bethlem Hospital and built to the design of Sydney Smirke and to similar specifications as other Bethlem terraces in Southwark, London.
The Market Place has two Grade II listed structures, a clock tower erected in 1899, and a 15th-century limestone Buttercross (set on three steps and topped with a 19th-century finial and weathervane), from which John Wesley preached.
The town is notable for Batemans Brewery; the brewery building incorporates the Georgian Salem House and a former corn mill, Salem Bridge Mill. Public houses in Wainfleet are the Woolpack Hotel and The Angel. Former pubs included the Jolly Sailor on St Johns Street, the Royal Oak, and the Red Lion on High Street.
British Listed Buildings: This is an example of a Grade II listed building from probably the 1840s. In fact the whole block from number 2 to 22 is considered a listed building group.
Stanford Hall is a stately home in Leicestershire, near the village of Stanford on Avon (which is in Northamptonshire) and the town of Lutterworth.
Ancestral home of the Cave family from c. 1430, the hall was built in the 1690s for Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet. Described by Simon Jenkins as the "perfect William and Mary house", the architect was William Smith of Warwick.
The River Avon flows through the grounds, with a weir downstream, so a small lake is formed.
The aviation pioneer Percy Pilcher built some of his early gliders here in the 1890s; he also built a powered flying machine here that many historians believe was capable of flight, but he was killed nearby in an accident in 1899 before he could try it. An exact replica of Pilcher's "The Hawk" glider is exhibited at the hall.
The stables were added to the east side of the house in 1737 by Francis Smith, who planned a balancing block of offices on the west side, but this was never built.
An eastbound Scoot charges up the hill at Mill Neck Curve, braving the wintry conditions. The trees are white with snow on this gorgeous afternoon.
Southbound Brightline train approaching the station in West Palm Beach, Florida on October 19, 2024.
Circa 1832 - The Pagoda Fountain at Alton Towers, Staffordshire on 10 August 2021.
Grade II star listed.
The following is from the Historic England website.
Name: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier
Designation Type: Listing
Grade: II*
List UID: 1192054
Fountain and bridge pier. Circa 1832. By Robert Abraham. Painted cast iron on a stone base. Octagonal plan; in the form of a Chinese pagoda. Octagonal base with five steps, leading to a pagoda of three stages, each stage with openwork sides of fishscale pattern and ogee-headed openings, the upper two stages each have a low balustrade; bracketed roof and canopies with bells hanging from the scrolls at each angle, the tall roof is surmounted by a finial. A stone pier approximately 10 yards to the north formerly supported a bridge which led from the north bank of the Fishpond within which the building stands. The Pagoda Fountain is a copy of the To-ho pagoda in Canton, as illustrated by Chambers and recreated in an essentially C19 and European form.
Usually tractors are nimble, so they can maneuver on farms and on the land. But this one is only fit for large open areas it seems...
There was a large tractor department at this meeting.
@Oldtimertoertocht Ponyweek Heeten 2025
Grading the silk
Copyright 2009 Ron Diorio
Courtesy of Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
phhfineart@phhfineart.com
66511 slowly descends down the Taff Bargoed Valley with its dusting of snow carrying around 1500 tonnes of coal from the Ffos Y Fran coal mine (Cwmbargoed) destined for Port Talbot steel works on the 6C93. The steeply graded single branch line that re-opened in 2008 climbs 200m in the last 6km section to Cwmbargoed, which can clearly be seen in this shot.