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The sun is high
In a flaming sky
Looking down on a child
With tears in his eyes.
The world's slipping through his fingers
Like the grains of sand
He holds
With trembling hands.
Arianne Grand
A trio of NS GEs lead an empty grain train west bound for Charlotte along the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western at Norwood, NC.
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake
These stunning structures resemble the ruins of an ancient city, but the alien looking 'skyscrapers' are natural sand castles, rising 3-4 ft high.
Similar in appearance to the more famous calcium carbonate tufa towers along Mono Lake's shoreline, these sand tufas formed quite differently. Beneath the surface of the ancient lake, calcium-rich groundwater rose up through brine-saturated sand layers, forming cemented pillars of sand. Later, the lake waters receded, leaving this area high and dry some distance back from the water's edge. Then wind eroded away the sand layers, exposing fluted sand tufas. These delicate formations are being continually weathered completely away, and new ones are exposed.
The image shows the Milky Way arching over the Sand Tufas. Some dissipating clouds along the horizon are a reminiscence of less tranquil conditions with strong tunderstorms in the afternoon. Strong airglow is bathing the lower sky in green, yellow and some reds, which are seemingly echoed by the Hydrogen-alpha emission nebulae dotting the Milky Way band.
EXIF
Canon EOS R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 @ f/2
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
8 panel panorama, each a stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
9 panel panorama, each a focus stack of 5x 1s @ ISO100 during blue hour
Five Roses Flour ~ Old Port of Montreal ~ Montreal, Quebec
Nikon D7500, Nikkor 18-300, ISO 200, f/10.0, 38mm, 1/250s
Passing the searchlights at south Grand Blanc, Michigan is Lake State Rwy. SD40 6305 leading a loaded grain train on May 31, 2020
Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world. Their soil is rich and dark. They grow wheat and export it widely. I think I saw that they grow something like 20% of the wheat in the world. The country is filled with scenes not a million miles away from this. The war is making this difficult and may result in hunger and famine in countries very distant from Ukraine.
World Central Kitchen travels to crisis zones and feeds the hungry. Chef Jose Andres uses his fame to draw attention to the needs of the needy. You may have seen a recent video by WCK's CEO Nate Mook about their kitchen in Kharkiv getting hit by a Russian missile. That's how close to the front lines they get. You can support their work at wck.org
An eastbound Kyle grain train switches Arriba Grain on the former Rock Island main line in the great plains of Colorado on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific SD45T-2s power the train, led by recently repainted No. 3099.
Memories. We went to a family reunion over the weekend. I loved to haul the grain to this elevator when I was in high school. It got me out of the field work for awhile. đ
G028-05 works up and over the hill at Fox with crusty SD40-2 #8312 providing the only power on this hot summer day. The 65 car grain train was destined for Marquette Rail for loading in Newaygo. #8312 is a former L&N SD40 that was rebuilt in the early 1990s to SD40-2 specs.
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Le Compagnon rouge ou Silene dioica est une vivace herbacée. La floraison est suivie par la formation de capsules contenant de nombreuses graines.
The Red Campion or Silene dioica is a herbaceous perennial. Flowering is followed by the formation of capsules containing numerous seeds.
I cut some glowing sticks and spread the liquid an a white paper. And voilĂ I had a background panel.
ORA loaded grain 2182S with locos FQ04 - G533 - GWU002 - GWU003 at Fosters Corner (Belair) on 6 March, 2022
On a gloomy February day in 2013, I happened across a Huron & Eastern grain train heading north between Saginaw and Bay City. Amazingly, powering the train were the final 3 units still in their Central Michigan black and white: GP38ACs 8804 and 8802, and GP40-2W 9712. Figuring this would be something I would likely never see again (I was right), I chased it for a while. Seen here rolling under I-75 on Bay City's west side, the train is now on the ex NYC line headed to the grain elevator in Auburn. G&W had just completed their purchase of Rail America, and later that year the retirements, repainting and renumbering would begin.
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