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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!!!!!
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.
Now that the snow has also arrived in middle of Scandinavia, the urge to get out and take pictures is even greater. Unfortunately, only gray weather so far.
Did a print test with just snow, lasted all afternoon. Either it turns out too white without structure or it turns out too gray.
Tried both Ilford Multigrad and Foma Multigrad and my feeling is that the Foma paper handles highlights better.
The picture may be too bright but I have to blame my wife, she thinks it's good :-)
This is the best with analog photography, to care about just one neg.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1:100.
Put the snow in zone 7,5. N dev.
Eos 1n, EF 16-35.
Fomaton 132 in Moersch SE6
Split grade printing.
Selen 1:10 2min.
Norfolk Southern train 274 heading north through the fall foliage at the Main Street grade crossing in Boyce, Virginia on October 23, 2023.
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.
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Specific Location: Elementary School
Sometimes I just want to shove all those paper out the windows.
Historic England: This is a Grade 1 listed building which was founded in 1121 by Henry I and was intended to be England's principal Cluniac House. It was frequently visited by kings and others, most especially by Henry III who often visited three or four times a year staying several weeks on each visit. It also hosted important state events, including the meeting between Henry II and the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1185, the wedding of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in 1359 and a meeting of Parliament in 1453. The abbey was mostly destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.
This is a shot from last fall when I far exceeded my bag limit, a long and grand statement to the Koch brothers. This year, I was wind blown on my way up to Gold Hill, where I only spent time at the Gold Hill Mill. I got hit by monster snow flakes as I headed west from town but it eased when I got to Gold Hill Station on the road to Peak-to-Peak Highway. I plunged along the Colorado & Northwestern railroad grade to the Ward mining camp into an aspen grove. This looks like a well traveled mountain road but with little noticeable grade. In fact, the grade gained only 180 feet over four miles. That's less than one-hundredth percent grade. The D&RG had a 4% grade west of Denver, where they started to gain serious elevation. Well... the grade on most of the route is pretty squirrely and had to be narrow gauge to make the curves. One of the designers admitted at least one curve was too tight for the engines that were on order. They simply changed the curve labels on the surveys ever so slightly. Apparently, the engine design had that much built in. That's why the inner drivers were "blind" and without flanges.
Portions can be driven in high-centered (not necessarily 4WD, it's level). Get out and walk for an encompassing experience and a lot of shots. Well above, the grade is cut off by the Sawmill road. Find it on Google maps - Ward, CO then S-E. Zoom in, the grade is marked on Google maps. Take the camera, a snack and hydration. You need the exercise, the reason for my excursions. Much is missed from the 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.
It's easy to follow the grade on Google Maps and easier when on the ground. It is pretty darn easy to see the RR grade from this shot. The color was somewhat short of peak but it may not look like it while in the depths. The autumn leaves look like mosaic tile art. Indian Peaks Wilderness Area is the background... at least until Ryan Zinke sells it off to big money interests.
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.
Bullied Battle of Britain pacific 34067 "Tangmere" climbing Shap Fell at Salterwath in horizontal rain with the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express.
Copyright Stephen Willetts - No unauthorised use
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.
BNSF 7805 leads NS 119 west through Charleston Grade, located on the west end of Christiansburg, VA.
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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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
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Eddystone Lighthouse Tower and Plymouth Hoe, Plymouth, Devon GBR.
The upper section of John Smeaton’s Eddystone Lighthouse (1759), re-sited on a new base in 1882, dominates Plymouth Hoe. This Grade I listed circular granite tower, with an octagonal lantern, ogee-shaped roof, ball finial, weather vane, and small four-pane windows, was a landmark technical achievement when first built.
Perched above Plymouth Sound, Plymouth Hoe is a Grade II listed historic site famed for sweeping views, public gardens, and memorials. Used for recreation since medieval times, it later hosted the Royal Citadel, the Drake Statue (1884), and the Armada Memorial (1888). Today, terraces, promenades, and the Tinside Lido blend its rich naval and civic history with modern leisure.
Smeaton’s Tower, Non Civil Parish - 1386470 | Historic England.. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386470.
Historic England. ‘The Hoe’. Historic England, 15 July 2002. historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/100163....