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April 16, 2018: CSX Manifest/Autorack Train Q211 (Louisville, KY-Columbia, SC) slowly powers up the grade approaching Emerson, GA on the CSX Western & Atlantic Subdivision, with a pair of Canadian National engines (ES44AC, ET44AC) providing the juice.
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.
The 16th Century timber-framed hotel was formerly three separate buildings. The name 'hostelrie' refers to the time when travellers on horseback or in carriages pulled by horses would have stayed here. As Stratford has become a major tourist town because it is the birthplace of Shakespeare his name is often used for shops, inns and other buildings.
The neighbouring stone-built town hall was designed by Robert Newman in the Palladian style, was completed in 1767. It was officially opened by the actor, David Garrick, in 1769.
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.
47826 crosses the River Dee approaching Hawarden Bridge station with the Branch Line Society Railtour The Ruby Valentine. The tour was welcomed to the station by a party of cyclists who had stopped wondering why all these people were at the station. Sadly the railtour derailed just around the corner, in Dee Marsh Sidings, curtailing the trip round part of the Merseyrail network.
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.
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.
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Specific Location: Elementary School
Sometimes I just want to shove all those paper out the windows.
Pulling the grade out of Creston,IL is UP 8196 east, a new ES44AC with a heavy stack load from Global III to West Chicago.
At grade crossings of 4 lane highways are becoming increasingly rare. I was fortunate that I was not subjected to too much drive up right to the edge of the gate vehicular traffic.
-KCS SD70ACe #4006 (Veterans Unit), EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7203, KCS AC44CW #4582 leading power
-KCS Train MVNKC
-KCS (ex-GWWR/CM&W/ICG/GM&O/etc) Godfrey Sub, near MP29
-Highway 111/267 Montclaire Ave Crossing, Godfrey, IL
-November 10, 2019
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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
Walking on the walls of the Grade I Listed Lincoln Castle, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Lincoln Castle was built during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress. The castle is unusual in that it has two mottes. It is only one of two such castles in the country, the other being at Lewes in Sussex.
When William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson and the English at The Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, he continued to face resistance to his rule in the north of England. For several years, William's position was very insecure. To project his influence northwards to control the people of the Danelaw (an area traditionally under the control of Scandinavian settlers), he constructed a few major castles in the north and midlands of England. It was at this time major castles at Warwick, Nottingham, and York were built. After gaining control of York, the Conqueror turned southwards and arrived at the Roman and Viking city of Lincoln.
When William reached Lincoln (one of the country's major settlements), he found a Viking commercial and trading centre with a population of 6,000 to 8,000. The remains of the old Roman walled fortress located 60 metres (200 ft) above the countryside to the south and west, proved an ideal strategic position to construct a new castle. Lincoln represented a vital strategic crossroads of the the same routes which influenced the siting of the Roman fort: Ermine Street, Fosse Way, Valley of the River Trent, River Witham & Lincolnshire Wolds
A castle here could guard several of the main strategic routes and form part of a network of strongholds of the Norman kingdom, in Danish Mercia, roughly the area of the country that is today referred to as the East Midlands, to control the country internally. Also (in the case of the Wolds) it could form a centre from which troops could be sent to repel Scandinavian landings anywhere on the coast from the Trent to the Welland, to a large extent, by using the roads which the Romans had constructed for the same purpose.
Work on the new fortification was completed in 1068. It is probable that at first a wooden keep was constructed which was later replaced with a much stronger stone one. To the south, where the Roman wall stands on the edge of a steep slope, it was retained partially as a curtain wall and partially as a revetment. In the west, where the ground is more level, the Roman wall was buried within an earth rampart and extended upward to form the Norman castle wall.
The castle was the focus of attention during the First Battle of Lincoln which occurred on 2 February 1141, during the struggle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda over who should be monarch in England. It was held but damaged, and a new tower, called the Lucy Tower, was built.
Lincoln Castle was again the site of a siege followed by the Second Battle of Lincoln, on 20 May 1217, during the reign of King John in the First Barons' War. This was the period of political struggle which led to the signing of Magna Carta on 15 June 1215.
As in Norwich and other places, the castle was used as a secure site in which to establish a prison. At Lincoln, the prison Gaol was built in 1787 and extended in 1847. Imprisoned debtors were allowed some social contact but the regime for criminals was designed to be one of isolation, according to the separate system. Consequently, the seating in the prison chapel is designed to enclose each prisoner individually so that the preacher could see everyone, but each could see only him. By 1878 the system was discredited, and the inmates were transferred to the new jail in the eastern outskirts of Lincoln.
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Liebherr PR736 dozer of Alan Whiteford Contracts working on an embankment for the entrance of a housing development in Bucksburn.
I'm not normally the complaining type, especially about things that are mostly trivial, but this is absurd.
So I got my sorting done, and for the first time in a long while almost my entire collection is properly sorted. Which makes it easier to notice trends in my pieces. "I'm really low on upwards-facing L-brackets" "For some reason I have an asymmetrical number of wedge plates" "I have way too many mixel joints" "All but two of my white 1x1 cheese slopes have hairline fractures in them" "Wait, what?" Yeah, that took me by surprise. I know a couple of them were broken, but i didn't think it was the overwhelming majority. I decided to check and sure enough the 4 on Candy's face are all fractured too.
These pieces are all a couple of years old, so that might be why. Hopefully this issue has been addressed, because I'm gonna have to buy some new ones, apparently.
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.
I'd grade these aspen below a "B" and the changing day no better. Just average! Nevertheless, this is as good a place to be with my camera as any! I left this in the editing directory but should have included it in the earlier "Switzerland Trail" series. Here is where the sky became overcast and the day became toast. I had to walk all the way back to the truck. I have a way to go. Sometimes, I have simply too many captures to include in a series and, well, I get anxious to turn to new presentations and new leafs.
This section of the Switzerland Trail RR grade navigated the Rockies but in fact, not withstanding all the curves along this route, the elevation gain is little. Several stops and camps meant slow going before the terminus just after Ward, Colorado. Heavy grades had nothing to do with dogged schedule. It's clear that I need a full day on the grade above here along with a climb to the top of the ridge for the grand view but only at drop-offs.
This was mountain railroading back in the day of steam power when aspen leaves decorated the train cars as they snuck up grade and passengers got tipsy views from 5-6 feet above grade.
Admittedly, this shot is not far from an earlier scene I posted but it shows the best aspen color. I am well up the old Switzerland Trail RR grade from Gold Hill Station on the Denver, Boulder & Western RR. Behind is where the northerly grade curves around to the southwesterly direction, avoiding a precipitous drop into Lefthand (Ni-Wot - Arapahoe Indian chief) Canyon. It enters thicker stands of ponderosa and aspen along the slope. The grade will enter the ponderosas and stands of aspen uncleared by snowslides. This section is driveable and shows tire signs of recent travel when last the Trail was damp. I chose to walk and enjoy the day without electronic eye, ear, nose and throat distractions while listening for birds and rustling. I've watched minks playing and nest building while everyone else, stuffed with personal pods passed as if deaf, dumb and blind to the real world. I parked well before a curve cut and left the truck. Snow's interlude may not last much longer from the look of the sky and it loaded us up last winter. This aspen stand was as colorful as any up here. Nothing turned orange-red this year after a recent snow and big blow.
Here, we are headed away from the the curve around edge of the slope. Though the grade looks tangent here, one of the route's designers admitted at least one curve was too tight for the engines that were on order. They simply changed the labels on the surveys ever so slightly. Apparently, the engine design had that much slack built in. (source, a Boulder mechanical engineering student of one designer) That's why the inner drivers were "blind" and without flanges on the consolidation type engines (2-4-0s) so they could navigate tight curves.
Portions can be driven in high-centered (not necessarily 4WD, it's level) vehicles. Get out and walk for an encompassing experience and a lot of nice shots. Well along the grade west of here it's cut off by the Sawmill road. Find the Switzerland Trail right here on Google maps at 40.057165, -105.465255. Zoom in, many segments of the grade are marked on Google maps as seen here. Derivable stretches are solid grey. Take the camera, a snack and hydration. You need the exercise (the current best way, not Amazon's Echo, to insure longevity), the reason for my excursions. Much is missed from a vehicle; park it in a handy spot. On such a trek on the Switzerland Trail, it is impossible to get lost; follow the grade! You'll find a lot of scenes with the Rockies in the backdrop.
Switzerland Trail and Indian Peaks Wilderness Area up the hill remain... at least until the Trump Dump sells it off to HIS "flag" ship of logging, mining and drilling big money interests.
FWWR's Cresson Turn climbs upgrade out of the Mustang Creek valley with 103 cars of mixed freight for Cresson Yard. Photo January 2, 2017.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1327120
Date First Listed : 27 May 1977
An early 18th century cottage with a slate-hung front and a slate roof. It has two storeys and a symmetrical front of two bays. The central doorway has a panelled door and a wooden porch, and the window are sashes.
There are so many roads in life with signs that tell us where to turn, when to stop and how to go. For the roads that don’t tell you what to do, for the roads with no names, for every road, the new GT Grade.
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